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Below is a visualization of the migration patterns across the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN). [ASEAN is a grouping of 10 countries including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam]. The objective of the investigation is to illustrate the extent to which economic integration could be challenging given the different economic weights of its members . ASEAN members range from the poorest Cambodia with current per capita GDP of $1,090 to wealthy Singapore at over $56,000 as of 2014. One of the core pillars of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), inked in KL in December 2015, is mobility of skilled labor across the region. The interactive figure below illustrates migration patterns as of 2013 (using data from the UN Population Division ). The biggest sender countries, as of 2013 were Indonesia and Malaysia, which had over 1.4 million and over 800 thousand of its citizens living in other ASEAN countries, respectively....