Since independence, Malaysia’s rapid economic development has relied on Malaysian workers moving from rural-to-rural and rural-to-urban areas as well as on migrant workers, especially from ASEAN countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand and also from South Asia. The sustained high economic growth rates in Malaysia over approximately three decades caused the increase in migrant workers, who were to meet the rising demand in certain sectors of the Malaysian labour market. The objective of the article is to identify potential opportunities for policy and legislative reform in relation to Malaysia’s implementation of its obligations as a Migrant Domestic Worker (MDW) receiving country specifically in relation to the barriers to MDW bringing claims where their rights have been breached. This article has identifies the relevant policy, legislative and support mechanism (NGO and government) landscape in Malaysia regarding the realisation of the rights of migrant domestic workers in Malaysia to bring claims where their rights have been breached (particularly the differences between Malaysia’s treatment of domestic workers as compared to other migrant workers); best practice examples of the relevant policy, legislative and support mechanism (NGO and government) landscapes in at least 2 ‘best practice’ MDW receiving countries regarding the realisation of the rights of MDW to bring claims where their rights have been breached; and potential opportunities for policy, legislative and support mechanism reform in Malaysia to further enhance the realisation of the rights of MDW in Malaysia specifically in relation to redress mechanisms for breaches of the rights of MDW.

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被虐待和孤独：马来西亚移民家政工人的法律救济

自独立以来，马来西亚经济的快速发展依赖于从农村到农村和从农村到城市地区的马来西亚工人以及移民工人，特别是来自印度尼西亚、菲律宾和泰国等东盟国家以及来自南方的移民工人。亚洲。马来西亚在大约三十年来持续的高经济增长率导致移民工人的增加，他们将满足马来西亚劳动力市场某些部门不断增长的需求。本文的目的是确定与马来西亚履行其作为移民家庭工人 (MDW) 接收国的义务相关的政策和立法改革的潜在机会，特别是在其权利受到侵犯的情况下，MDW 提出索赔的障碍。本文已确定相关政策，马来西亚的立法和支持机制（非政府组织和政府）关于实现马来西亚移民家庭工人在其权利受到侵犯的情况下提出索赔的权利（特别是马来西亚对待家庭工人与其他移民工人的区别） ; 至少 2 个“最佳实践”MDW 接收国的相关政策、立法和支持机制（非政府组织和政府）在实现 MDW 在其权利受到侵犯时提出索赔的权利方面的最佳实践示例；以及马来西亚政策、立法和支持机制改革的潜在机会，以进一步加强马来西亚对 MDW 权利的实现，特别是在违反 MDW 权利的补救机制方面。