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

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dc.contributor.author Molland, Sverre.
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-06T01:11:11Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-06T01:11:11Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation DOI: 19.4324/9781003181003185734 en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-003-18573-4 (ebk)
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/1315
dc.description book, 229 p. en_US
dc.description.abstract 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 programmes 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 and mediated practices. The book offers unprecedented insights into what safe migration policies look like in practice. It is an innovate contribution to contemporary theorising 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. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge, Taylor & Francis en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Routledge Series on Asian Migration.;
dc.subject Migration studies en_US
dc.subject Development studies en_US
dc.subject Southeast Asian en_US
dc.subject Global studies en_US
dc.subject sociologists en_US
dc.subject anthropologists en_US
dc.subject political scientists en_US
dc.subject human geographers en_US
dc.title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia. en_US
dc.type Book en_US


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