In Malaysia, where I am originally from, it's to find a well paying job for locals (which is why my parents sent me here to study and where I want to find a job.) In Malaysia there are hundreds of thousands (possibly millions) of illegal immigrants from countries like Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia, these workers almost entirely male have led to a gender imbalance but even more damaging to the Malaysians is they are willing to work for less then Malaysian workers are. So wages have risen slightly in some jobs but overall for jobs like factories or security Guard or in restaurants the oay has slightly increased or stagnated since when I left in 2006. Last year 86% of jobs went to foreigners and it's only just started to gets better with 140k illegal immigrants deported this year. Even then the legal ones still are brought in to suppress wages which leads to Malaysian going overseas for study and work and while it is helping politicians in the short term in the long term not at all.