Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9781032015439 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 220 str.

Sverre Molland

Opis

The book investigates how the United Nations, governments and aid agencies mobilise and instrumentalise migration policies and programmes through a discourse of safe migration.

Recenzje

"Safe migration has become the new buzzword among both government and non-governmental organizations concerned with cross-border labour migration, including in Southeast Asia. Sverre Molland's monograph is the first book-length, critical academic treatment of the subject for the Southeast Asian region...The book undoubtedly provides much-needed critical insights into the emergence of safe migration as discourse, policy and practice."

--Sallie Yae, SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia Vol. 38, No. 1 (2023)

Spis treści

1. Introducing safe migration  PART I SITUATING SAFETY IN MIGRATION  2. From traffic to safety: The allure of safe migration  3. Omnipresence and nothingness: Lao and Myanmar migrants compared  PART II MODALITIES OF INTERVENTION  4. Departures: Technologies of anticipation  5. State-centric safety and biometric economies: documents and recruitment chains  6. Destinations: hotlines and safety nets  PART III SAFETY MEDIATED  7. On Humanitarian spaces  8. Brokers, migrants and safety  9. informal Assistance  10. Conclusion

O autorze

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.