This document is an individual academic assignment by Fatin Wahdah Binti Rosmin for Universiti Malaysia Sabah, course BH3307 IHRE, academic session 2026/2027. It examines the trends, factors, and impacts of skilled migration among Malaysian professionals.
This is an academic assignment from Universiti Malaysia Sabah that examines skilled migration among Malaysian professionals. It is written for students and researchers interested in international labour mobility and Malaysian diaspora patterns.
The document begins by defining skilled migration as the movement of workers with professional qualifications or specialised knowledge across borders. It provides examples such as Malaysian engineers moving to Singapore for work and lists professional groups including doctors, engineers, IT specialists, accountants, researchers, academics, and business professionals.
It presents current migration trends using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM, 2022, 2025) and the International Labour Organization (ILO, 2026). Key statistics show approximately 1.86 million Malaysians living overseas in 2020, with Singapore as the top destination at 60%, followed by Australia at 10%, the United Kingdom and United States at 4% each, and Brunei Darussalam at 3%.
The assignment covers four main factors influencing skilled migration: salary and income differences, career opportunities including promotion and specialised positions, working environment factors such as work-life balance and workplace culture, and quality of life considerations including housing, healthcare, education, transportation, and family opportunities.
It also references Malaysia's first International Migration Statistics publication from DOSM 2025 and the ILO's International Labour Migration Statistics Database in ASEAN as sources for understanding labour migration patterns in the region.