Asylum, Work, and Precarity: Bordering the Asia-Pacific

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Henry (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 230
Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book explores the regional coordination and impact of state responses to irregular migration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The main argument is that regional and international trends of securitisation and criminalisation of irregular migration, often associated with framing the issue in terms of migrant smuggling and human trafficking, have intensified carceral border regimes and produced greater precarity for migrants. Bilateral and multilateral processes of regional coordination at multiple levels of government are analysed with a focus on the impact on asylum seekers and migrant workers in major destination and transit countries including Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia. The book will be of interest to a wide academic audience interested in the interdisciplinary field of Border Studies, as well as general readers concerned with the treatment of refugees and migrant workers who cross borders in search of safety, security, and a better life.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Introduction (Nicholas Henry)....Pages 1-11
Border Spaces (Nicholas Henry)....Pages 13-34
Leaving Home (Nicholas Henry)....Pages 35-68
Framing Threats (Nicholas Henry)....Pages 69-99
Screening Migrants (Nicholas Henry)....Pages 101-133
Carceral Responses (Nicholas Henry)....Pages 135-163
Producing Precarity (Nicholas Henry)....Pages 165-193
Conclusion (Nicholas Henry)....Pages 195-202
Back Matter ....Pages 203-227

✦ Subjects

Asian Politics

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