Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Controls in Asia
Edited by
Amarjit Kaur and Ian Metcalfe
Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Controls in Asia
Edited by
Amarjit Kaur and Ian Metcalfe
Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Controls in Asia
Edited by
Amarjit Kaur and Ian Metcalfe
Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Controls in Asia
Edited by
Amarjit Kaur and Ian Metcalfe
This book examines international tabour migration, security and bordermanagement strategies in Asia, in the face of intensified transnational economic and social processes and the expanding global governance regime. It argues that state policy pertaining to international migration is increasingly shaped by, and responds to, challenges such as border security, international agreements, civil society activism and new norms of global governance. It focuses on policy responses to migrants and migration processes at the border and across borders, against the backdrop of four major challenges:
• the regulation of populations and cross-border movements;
• security issues;
• international agreements, and
• new norms of global governance developed by regional and international NGOs and other international organisations.
The book contributes to important debates about globalisation, international migration and issues of cross-border movements. It informs public discussion and policy development on issues of security and governance and cross-border movements in Asia.
Amarjit Kaur is Professor of Economic History at the University of New England, Australia. She has published widely on tabour and economic and social change in Southeast Asia/Asia.
Ian Metcalfe is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Asia Centre, University of New England, Australia. He has published widely on geological evolution and the resources of Asia.
First published in 2006 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 FifthAvenue, NewYork, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-8745-7 hardback
ISBN-10:1-4039-8745-9 hardback
ISBN 1-4039-8745-9 (cloth)
Contents
List of Tables vii
List of Figures xi
List of Maps xii
List of Abbreviations xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Preliminary Note xvi
Notes on Contributors xvii
Part I Divided We Move: Migration Challenges in Asia
1 Introduction 3
Amarjit Kaur and Ian Metcalfe
2 Changing Border Control Regimes and their Impact on
Migration in Asia 8
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
3 Order (and Disorder) at the Border: Mobility,
International Labour Migration and Border Controls
in Southeast Asia 23
Amarjit Kaur
4 Coping With Cross-Border Labour Flows Within Southeast Asia 52
Chris Manning and Pradip Bhatnagar
5 Women, Work and International Migration in Southeast Asia:
Trends, Patterns and Policy 73
Graeme Hugo
Part 11 Crossing Borders: The State, Migration
Strategies and Temporary Migrant Worker Schemes
6 Trading Labour: Socio-economic
and Political Impacts and Dynamics of Labour Export from the
Philippines, 1973-2004 115
Rochelle Ball
7 Indonesian Labour Migration after the 1997-98 Asian
Economic and Financial Crisis 139
Carunia Mulya Firdausy
8 The Feminisation of Migration: Gender, the State and Migrant
Strategies in Bangladesh 155
Ishrat Shamim
9 'White-Collar Filipinos': Australian Professionals
in Singapore 172
Melissa Butcher
10 Indian Professional Workers in Singapore 193
Seema Gaur
Part III Managing the Border: Governance of
Recruitment, Facilitation of Remittances and
Migrant Workers' Rights
11 The Recruitment of Foreign Labour in Malaysia: From
Migration System to Guest Worker Regime 213
Diana Wong
12 After Nunukan: The Regulation of Indonesian
Migration to Malaysia 228
Michele Ford
13 The State and Labour Migration Policies in Thailand 248
Patcharawalai Wongboonsin
14 The State and Facilitation of Financial Flows (Remittances)
by Temporary Workers: The Case of Bangladesh 274
Kenneth Jackson
15 Regional Perspectives on the 1990 UN Convention on
the Rights of All Migrant Workers 292
Nicola Piper
Index 311