Migration Industry in Asia

Brokerage, Gender and Precarity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

This pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-09
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:313 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:136
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811396939

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Michiel Baas is a Research Fellow with the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. Most of his work centers on questions related to India, in particular with reference to the topics of migration, mobility and transnationalism.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Brokerage, Gender and Precarity in Asia’s Migration Industry.- Precarity, migration and brokerage in Indonesia: insights from ethnographic research in Indramayu.- Brokered (Il)legality: Co-Producing the Status of Migrants from Myanmar to Thailand.- Understanding the Cost of Migration: Facilitating Migration from India to Singapore and the Middle East.- Unauthorized Recruitment of Migrant Domestic Workers from India to the Middle East: Interest Conflicts, Patriarchal Nationalism and State Policy.- An Industry of Migration Frauds? State Policy, Migration Assemblages and Migration of Nurses from India.