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This book examines international migration, security and border-management strategies in Asia, in the face of intensified transnational economic and social processes and the expanding governmental regime. It argues that state policy to migrants is increasingly shaped by, and responds to challenges such as border security, international agreements, and new norms of global governnace developed by NGOs and other international advocacy organizations. This volume will contribute to important debates about globalization, international migration and issues of cross-border movements, and inform debates on issues of security, governance and population movements in the Asia-Pacific region.
| 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| 2 | Changing border control regimes and their impact on at migration in Asia | 8 |
| 3 | Order (and disorder) at the border : mobility, international labour migration and border controls in Southeast Asia | 23 |
| 4 | Coping with cross-border labour flows within Southeast Asia | 52 |
| 5 | Women, work and international migration in Southeast Asia : trends, patterns and policy | 73 |
| 6 | Trading labour : socio-economic and political impacts and dynamics of labour export from the Philippines, 1973-2004 | 115 |
| 7 | Indonesian labour migration after the 1997-98 Asian economic and financial crisis | 139 |
| 8 | The feminisation of migration : gender, the state and migrant strategies in Bangladesh | 155 |
| 9 | 'White-collar Filipinos' : Australian professionals in Singapore | 172 |
| 10 | Indian professional workers in Singapore | 193 |
| 11 | The recruitment of foreign labour in Malaysia : from migration system to guest worker regime | 213 |
| 12 | After Nunukan : the regulation of Indonesian migration to Malaysia | 228 |
| 13 | The state and labour migration policies in Thailand | 248 |
| 14 | The state and facilitation of financial flows (remittances) by temporary workers : the case of Bangladesh | 274 |
| 15 | Regional perspectives on the 1990 UN convention on the rights of all migrant workers | 292 |
Overview
This book examines international migration, security and border-management strategies in Asia, in the face of intensified transnational economic and social processes and the expanding governmental regime. It argues that state policy to migrants is increasingly shaped by, and responds to challenges such as border security, international agreements, and new norms of global governnace developed by NGOs and other international advocacy organizations. This volume will contribute to important debates about ...