Labour Migration And Human Trafficking In Southeast Asia

Author : Michele Ford,Lenore Lyons,Willem van Schendel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136328008

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Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia by Michele Ford,Lenore Lyons,Willem van Schendel Pdf

Since the signing of the UN Trafficking Protocol, anti-trafficking laws, policies and other initiatives have been implemented at the local, national and regional levels. These activities have received little scholarly attention. This volume aims to begin to fill this gap by documenting the micro-processes through which an anti-trafficking framework has been translated, implemented and resisted in mainland and island Southeast Asia. The detailed ethnographic accounts in this collection examine the everyday practices of the diverse range of actors involved in trafficking-like practices and in anti-trafficking initiatives. In demonstrating how the anti-trafficking framework has become influential – and even over-determining – in some border sites and yet remains mostly irrelevant in others, the chapters in this collection explore the complex connections between labour migration, migrant smuggling and human trafficking.

Author : Melissa Curley,Siu-lun Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134146277

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Security and Migration in Asia by Melissa Curley,Siu-lun Wong Pdf

Security and Migration in Asia explores how various forms of unregulated and illegal forms of human movement within Asia and beyond the region have come to be treated as 'security' issues, and whether and how a 'securitization' framework enables a more effective response to them. The process and theory of 'securitization' and 'desecuritization' have been developed within the international relations literature by the so-call Copenhagen school scholars, including Barry Buzan and Ole Waever among others. The topics explored in this well- presented and engaging book cover geographic areas of China, Northeast Asia, Central Asia, the Russian Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Hong Kong SAR, and includes research on: human trafficking and people smuggling financing illegal migration and links to transnational organized crime regulated and unregulated labour migration the 'securitization' of illegal migration in sending, transit and receiving countries. This book provides compelling insights into contemporary forms of illegal migration, under conditions of globalization, and makes a contribution to the literature in international relations and migration studies.

Author : Regional Thematic Working Group on International Migration Including Human Trafficking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : East Asia
ISBN : UCBK:C121227757

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Situation Report on International Migration in East and South-East Asia by Regional Thematic Working Group on International Migration Including Human Trafficking Pdf

Author : Annuska Derks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Child prostitution
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112960823

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Combating Trafficking in South-East Asia by Annuska Derks Pdf

Author : Jiyoung Song,Alistair D. B. Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317907732

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Irregular Migration and Human Security in East Asia by Jiyoung Song,Alistair D. B. Cook Pdf

Across East Asia, intra-regional migration is more prevalent than inter-regional movements, and the region’s diverse histories, geopolitics, economic development, ethnic communities, and natural environments make it an excellent case study for examining the relationship between irregular migration and human security. Irregular migration can be broadly defined as people’s mobility that is unauthorised or forced, and this book expands on the existing migration-security nexus by moving away from the traditional state security lens, and instead, shifting the focus to human security. With in-depth empirical country case studies from the region, including China, Japan, North Korea, the Philippines, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Singapore, the contributors to this book develop a human security approach to the study of irregular migration. In cases of irregular migration, such as undocumented labour migrants, asylum seekers, internally displaced people, trafficked persons, and smuggled people, human security is the cause and/or effect of migration in both sending and receiving countries. By adopting a human security lens, the chapters provide striking insights into the motivations, vulnerabilities and insecurities of migrants; the risks, dangers and illegality they are exposed to during their journeys; as well as the potential or imagined threats they pose to the new host countries. This multidisciplinary book is based on extensive fieldwork and interviews with migrants, aid workers, NGO activists and immigration officers. As such, it will appeal to students and scholars of Asian politics and security, as well as those with interests in international relations, social policy, law, geography and migration.

Author : Sallie Yea
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317917298

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Human Trafficking in Asia by Sallie Yea Pdf

By analysing the complex issues surrounding internal and cross-border human trafficking in Asia, and asserting critical perspectives and methodologies, this book extends the range of sites for discussion and sectors in which human trafficking takes place. The book re-centres human trafficking as an area of legitimate academic inquiry in a region that is often considered as an epicentre for human trafficking: East and Southeast Asia. It thus offers an in-depth analysis and up-to-date knowledge on research methodologies and engagements, patterns and forms of human trafficking, constructively critiquing anti-trafficking campaigns and discourses, and offering examples of good practice within the region that help us move beyond the impasse that currently hampers human trafficking as a field of inquiry in the social sciences. Providing constructive avenues for human trafficking research to proceed methodologically, theoretically and ethically, this book is of interest to students and scholars of Politics, International Relations and Southeast Asian Studies.

Author : Kevin Hewison,Ken Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134204083

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Transnational Migration and Work in Asia by Kevin Hewison,Ken Young Pdf

Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labour migration firmly within the context of globalization, providing a focused, contemporary discussion of what is undoubtedly a major twenty-first century concern. Transnational Migration and Work in Asia analyzes workers motivations and rationalities, highlighting the similarities of migration experiences throughout Asia. Presenting in-depth case studies of the real-life experiences and problems faced by migrant workers, the book discusses migrants’ relations with the state and their vulnerability to exploitation, as well as the major policy issues now facing governments, employers, NGOs and international agencies.

Author : Michele Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108606295

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The Politics of Cross-Border Mobility in Southeast Asia by Michele Ford Pdf

This Element explains how cross-border mobility defines diplomatic relationships between Southeast Asian states and social and political dynamics within the region's key destination countries. It begins by providing an historically situated discussion of bordering processes within the region, examining evolving historical conceptions of power and sovereignty, and processes of bordering in colonial and post-colonial times. It then turns to the political, environmental, and economic drivers of contemporary cross-border mobility before examining governments' efforts to manage different kinds of border-crossers and the tensions that these efforts give rise to. Having discussed the politics of cross-border mobility in host communities, the Element returns to the question of why consideration of bordering practices and cross-border mobility is necessary in understanding contemporary Southeast Asia.

Author : Sverre Molland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000430745

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Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia by Sverre Molland Pdf

The book investigates how the United Nations, governments, and aid agencies mobilise and instrumentalise migration policies and programmes through a discourse of safe migration. Since the early 2000s, numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs), UN agencies, and governments have warmed to the concept of safe migration, often within a context of anti-trafficking interventions. Yet, both the policy-enthusiasm for safety, as well as how safe migration comes into being through policies and programs remain unexplored. Based on seven years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Mekong region, this is the first book that traces the emergence of safe migration, why certain aid actors gravitate towards the concept, as well as how safe migration policies and programmes unfold through aid agencies and government bodies. The book argues that safe migration is best understood as brokered safety. Although safe migration policy interventions attempt to formalize pre-emptive and protective measures to enhance labour migrants’ well-being, the book shows through vivid ethnographic details how formal migration assistance in itself depends on – and produces – informal asnd mediated practices. The book offers unprecedented insights into what safe migration policies look like in practice. It is an innovate contribution to contemporary theorizing of contemporary forms of migration governance and will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and human geographers working within the fields of Migration studies, Development Studies, as well as Southeast Asian and Global Studies. Chapters 1, 4, 5 and 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003185734

Author : A. S. Panneerselvan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9388326733

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Uncertain Journeys by A. S. Panneerselvan Pdf

'The essays in Uncertain Journeys: Labour Migration from South Asia document the price people pay to earn a dignified livelihood, as well as the joy and pain of distance employment. They [...] help us to understand the labour migrant from South Asia as a human being, and not a mere remittance machine for the family or a precious foreign-exchange earner for the home country.'--From the introduction by A.S. Panneerselvan The topic of labour migration appears constantly in the media, but too often, the issues take precedence over the people involved--the migrant workers who leave Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, to work long hours in precarious situations across the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Here, eleven journalists explore the lived realities of migrant workers from South Asia--their aspirations, fears and dreams; how global forces determine their freedom; how they navigate the policies that attempt to regulate their lives; and their hopes for a better future which carry them through years of unrelenting toil. Uncertain Journeys asks fundamental questions about the nature and costs of labour migration. Essays about the plight of Indians stranded in Kuwait due to bankrupt employers query whether labour-sending countries can assume that their responsibilities to their citizens abroad end with enabling remittances. The horrifying stories of men and women suffering forced labour, abuse and de facto imprisonment demand whether the blurred borderlines between migration and human trafficking effectively enable modern-day slavery. Most crucially, the book questions whether human beings can be reduced to a mere commodity. Written with empathy, yet with a critical take on the stories being told, this book is an important contribution to the conversation about labour migration in South Asia.

Author : Ato Quayson,Antonela Arhin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136482649

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Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations by Ato Quayson,Antonela Arhin Pdf

Although much literature on human trafficking focuses on sex trafficking, a great deal of human trafficking results from migrant workers, compelled - by economic deprivation in their home countries - to seek better life opportunities abroad, especially in agriculture, construction and domestic work. Such labour migration is sometimes legal and well managed, but sometimes not so – with migrant workers frequently threatened or coerced into entering debt bondage arrangements and ending up working in forced labour situations producing goods for illicit markets. This book fills a substantial gap in the existing literature given that labour trafficking is a much more subtle form of exploitation than sex trafficking. It discusses how far large multinational corporations are involved, whether intentionally or unintentionally, in human trafficking for the purposes of labour exploitation. They explore how far corporations are driven to seek cheap labour by the need to remain commercially competitive and examine how the problem often lies with corporations’ subcontractors, who are not as well controlled as they might be. The essays in the volume also outline and assess measures being taken by governments and international agencies to eradicate the problem.

Author : Hossein Jalilian
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814345330

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Costs and Benefits of Cross-country Labour Migration in the GMS by Hossein Jalilian Pdf

International labour migration can be characterized in three ways - as human aspiration, tradition, and necessity. For some people, working overseas is a dream. For others, international labour mobility is a tradition. For a great number of people however, international labour migration is an economic necessity. It is the only viable solution to realize their basic human right to a decent life. GMS worker movements to Thailand typify all three characterizations of international labour mobility. While this book focuses on the economic dimensions of international labour emigration, principally from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam to Thailand, it recognizes at the very outset the equal standing of non-economic motivations for migration.

Author : Aris Ananta,Evi Nurvidya Arifin
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9812302786

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International Migration in Southeast Asia by Aris Ananta,Evi Nurvidya Arifin Pdf

Includes statistics.

Author : Nguyen Thi Hong Yen,Nguyen Toan Thang,Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan,Su Wai Mon
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781666940381

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Ensuring the Rights of Migrant Workers by Nguyen Thi Hong Yen,Nguyen Toan Thang,Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan,Su Wai Mon Pdf

This collection provides insights into international labor migration in the context of globalization through the lens of international law and national law of some Asian countries that are the home countries of migrant workers. The main focus of the volume is on challenges regarding international labor migration that some developing countries in Asia have been confronted with. It investigates and determines current situations in some Asian developing countries having the majority of overseas migrant workers. It also places some emphasis on national regulatory systems of policies and regulations regarding overseas labour migration from those countries. In addition, in light of the current situation on international labour migration, the chapters outlines some recommendations and solutions for those selected developing countries in Asia to resolve existing problems to effectively ensure the protection of the rights of overseas labor migrants and governance of international labor migration in accordance with international standards.

Author : Elisabetta Gentile
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788116176

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Skilled Labor Mobility and Migration by Elisabetta Gentile Pdf

One of the primary objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), established in 2015, was to boost skilled labor mobility within the region. This insightful book takes stock of the existing trends and patterns of skilled labor migration in the ASEAN. It endeavors to identify the likely winners and losers from the free movement of natural persons within the region through counterfactual policy simulations. Finally, it discusses existing issues and obstacles through case studies, as well as other sectoral examples.