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Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia

Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Asian Migration

General Antiques & CollectiblesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032015438
ISBN13: 9781032015439
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 20 2021
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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