Lasimbang Helen Benedict, Tong Wen Ting, Low Wah Yun
Deputy Dean Office (Clinical Service), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Sabah, located in Southeast Asia, hosts the highest number of non-Malaysian citizens (27.7%), predominantly the Indonesian and Filipino migrants in comparison to other states in Malaysia. Sabah has inadequate data on migrants' sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHRs). Various migrant-related policies and laws are present, but they do not offer full protection and rights to legal migrants in terms of their SRHRs. The aim of the laws and policies appears to be controlling the migrants from having any negative impact on the locals, rather than protecting migrants' health and rights. This affected their rights to marriage, having children, increase their vulnerabilities to labour trafficking and sexual abuse and access to health-care services. Female migrant workers and undocumented migrants form the most vulnerable subgroups of migrants. This narrative review highlights the status of SRHRs of migrants in Sabah and the migrant-related Malaysian laws and policies affecting their SRHRs.
沙巴位于东南亚，拥有马来西亚非公民数量最多的群体（27.7%），与马来西亚其他州相比，主要是印度尼西亚和菲律宾移民。沙巴缺乏关于移民性健康和生殖健康及权利（SRHRs）的数据。存在各种与移民相关的政策和法律，但就移民的性健康和生殖健康及权利而言，它们并未为合法移民提供充分的保护和权利。法律和政策的目的似乎是控制移民对当地人产生任何负面影响，而不是保护移民的健康和权利。这影响了他们的结婚、生育权利，增加了他们遭受劳动力贩运和性虐待以及获得医疗服务的脆弱性。女性移民工人和无证移民构成了最脆弱的移民亚群体。这篇叙述性综述强调了沙巴移民的性健康和生殖健康及权利状况以及影响其性健康和生殖健康及权利的与移民相关的马来西亚法律和政策。
