Title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia / Sverre Molland

Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge series on Asian migration Contents Introducing safe migration -- From traffic to safety: the allure of safe migration -- Omnipresence and nothingness: Lao and Myanmar migrants compared -- Departures: Technologies of anticipation -- State-centric safety and biometric economies: documents and recruitment chains -- Destinations: hotlines and safety nets -- On humanitarian spaces -- Brokers, migrants and safety -- Informal assistance Summary 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 asndmediated 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 Notes Sverre Molland is a senior lecturer in Anthropology at the Australian National University, Australia. His research examines the intersections between migration, development and security in a comparative perspective, with specific focus on governance regimes and intervention modalities in mainland Southeast Asia Subject Refugees -- Protection -- Southeast Asia Refugees -- Services for -- Southeast Asia Foreign workers -- Protection -- Southeast Asia Foreign workers -- Services for -- Southeast Asia Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southeast Asia SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Foreign workers -- Services for Refugees -- Protection Refugees -- Services for SUBJECT Southeast Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Subject Southeast Asia Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000430745 100043074X 9781000430790 1000430790 9781003185734 1003185738

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