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dc.contributor.authorMolland, Sverre
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-19T08:21:46Z
dc.date.available2021-10-19T08:21:46Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20211019_9781000430745_6
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51095
dc.description.abstractThe 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. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003185734 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Series on Asian Migration
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherbrokered safety
dc.subject.otherpolitics
dc.subject.otherSoutheast Asia
dc.subject.othersafe migration
dc.titleSafe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003185734
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.relation.isbn9781000430745
oapen.relation.isbn9781032029061
oapen.relation.isbn9781003185734
oapen.relation.isbn9781032015439
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages228


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