Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Co
β Amarjit Kaur, Ian Metcalfe
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2006
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Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Controls in Asia
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-7
Changing Border Control Regimes and their Impact on Migration in Asia....Pages 8-22
Order (and Disorder) at the Border: Mobility, International Labour Migration and Border Controls in Southeast Asia....Pages 23-51
Coping With Cross-Border Labour Flows Within Southeast Asia....Pages 52-72
Women, Work and International Migration in Southeast Asia: Trends, Patterns and Policy....Pages 73-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Trading Labour: Socio-economic and Political Impacts and Dynamics of Labour Export from the Philippines, 1973β2004....Pages 115-138
Indonesian Labour Migration after the 1997β98 Asian Economic and Financial Crisis....Pages 139-154
The Feminisation of Migration: Gender, the State and Migrant Strategies in Bangladesh....Pages 155-171
βWhite-Collar Filipinosβ: Australian Professionals in Singapore....Pages 172-192
Indian Professional Workers in Singapore....Pages 193-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
The Recruitment of Foreign Labour in Malaysia: From Migration System to Guest Worker Regime....Pages 213-227
After Nunukan: The Regulation of Indonesian Migration to Malaysia....Pages 228-247
The State and Labour Migration Policies in Thailand....Pages 248-273
The State and Facilitation of Financial Flows (Remittances) by Temporary Workers: The Case of Bangladesh....Pages 274-291
Regional Perspectives on the 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers....Pages 292-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-322
β¦ Subjects
Economic Policy; Labor Economics; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice; Migration; Political Economy; International Economics
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