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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Molland, Sverre, author.

Series:

Routledge series on Asian migration.

Routledge series on Asian migration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Protection--Southeast Asia.

Refugees.

Refugees--Services for--Southeast Asia.

Foreign workers--Protection--Southeast Asia.

Foreign workers.

Foreign workers--Services for--Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]

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 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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of figures

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

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003185734

1003185738

9781000430745

100043074X

OCLC:

1260345597

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003185734