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Palgrave Macmillan

Asylum, Work, and Precarity

Bordering the Asia-Pacific

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  • © 2018

Overview

  • Offers fresh perspective of border regimes in Asia Pacific regime
  • Extends geographic scope of critical scholarship on border regime
  • Provides case studies with significant current interest

Part of the book series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific (CSAP)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

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This book explores the regional coordination and impact of state responses to irregular migration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The main argument is that regional and international trends of securitisation and criminalisation of irregular migration, often associated with framing the issue in terms of migrant smuggling and human trafficking, have intensified carceral border regimes and produced greater precarity for migrants. Bilateral and multilateral processes of regional coordination at multiple levels of government are analysed with a focus on the impact on asylum seekers and migrant workers in major destination and transit countries including Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia. The book will be of interest to a wide academic audience interested in the interdisciplinary field of Border Studies, as well as general readers concerned with the treatment of refugees and migrant workers who cross borders in search of safety, security, and a better life.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Nicholas Henry

About the author

Nicholas Henry is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at Warwick University, UK. He has lectured in International Relations at universities in Australia and New Zealand, including Deakin University and Victoria University of Wellington.

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