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The Migration Industry in Asia

Brokerage, Gender and Precarity

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Editors:
  1. Michiel Baas

    1. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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  • Examines the emergence, commercialization and regulation of the migration industry in Asia
  • Highlights the increasing co-dependence on, entanglement of and overlap between migrants, the industry and the state
  • Considers how the State actively contributes to formalizing the industry’s role in migration trajectories

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Brokerage, Gender and Precarity in Asia’s Migration Industry

    • Michiel Baas
    Pages 1-10

  3. Precarity, Migration and Brokerage in Indonesia: Insights from Ethnographic Research in Indramayu

    • Avyanthi Azis, Rhino Ariefiansyah, Nastiti Setia Utami
    Pages 11-31

  4. Brokered (Il)legality: Co-producing the Status of Migrants from Myanmar to Thailand

    • Indrė Balčaitė
    Pages 33-58

  5. Understanding the Cost of Migration: Facilitating Migration from India to Singapore and the Middle East

    • Michiel Baas
    Pages 59-75

  6. Unauthorized Recruitment of Migrant Domestic Workers from India to the Middle East: Interest Conflicts, Patriarchal Nationalism and State Policy

    • Praveena Kodoth
    Pages 77-107

  7. An Industry of Frauds? State Policy, Migration Assemblages and Nursing Professionals from India

    • V. J. Varghese
    Pages 109-131

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 133-136
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About this book

This pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia. Grounded in extensive fieldwork and building on empirical data gathered through interactions and interviews with brokers, agents and other facilitators of migration, it examines the increasing co-dependence on, entanglement of and overlap between migrants, industry and state. It considers how for low-skilled migrants, migration is often not even possible without the involvement of the industry. As the opportunity to migrate has opened up to an ever-widening group of potential migrants, receiving nations have fine-tuned their migration infrastructure and programs to facilitate the inflow (and timely outflow) of the migrants it deems desirable. The migration industry plays an active role as mediator between migrants’ desires and states' requirements. This pivot focuses on what unites sending and receiving sides of migration, going beyond presupposed established networks, and offering a clear conceptualization of the contemporary migration industry in Asia.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Michiel Baas

About the editor

Michiel Baas is a Research Fellow with the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. Most of his work centers on questions related to India, in particular with reference to the topics of migration, mobility and transnationalism.  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Migration Industry in Asia

  • Book Subtitle: Brokerage, Gender and Precarity

  • Editors: Michiel Baas

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9694-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9693-9Published: 09 December 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9694-6Published: 26 November 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 136

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Migration, Women's Studies, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology

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