Among the root causes for migrant workers becoming undocumented in Malaysia is the widespread corruption among the authorities and fraud and cheating by agents, migrant rights NGO Tenaganita caseworker Joseph Paul said.

“The problem of ‘undocumented-ness’ really goes back to a large number of reasons. Mainly, I would put them as cheating and fraud by agents and corruption on the part of the authorities,” Joseph said in an interview on Astro Awani last night...