Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia

Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9781000430745
ISBN-13 : 100043074X
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Book Synopsis Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia by : Sverre Molland

Download or read book Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia written by Sverre Molland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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


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