Transnational Migration and Human Security

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Transnational Migration, Development and Human Security

      • Thanh-Dam Truong, Des Gasper

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   3. The Governmentality of Transnational Migration and Security: The Making of a New Subaltern

      • Thanh-Dam Truong

      Pages 23-37

3. Neoliberal Governmentality and Transnational Migration: the Interplay of Security Fears and Business Forces

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Human Insecurities and Paths for Change

      • Gustavo Verduzco, María Isabel de Lozano

      Pages 41-56

   3. The Blind Spot of Repression: Migration Policies and Human Survival in the Central Sahara

      • Julien Brachet

      Pages 57-66

   4. Europeanization and the Right to Seek Refugee Status: Reflections on Frontex

      • Wies Maas, Thanh-Dam Truong

      Pages 67-79

   5. Fortress Europe and the Dutch Donjon: Securitization, Internal Migration Policy and Irregular Migrants’ Counter Moves

      • Godfried Engbersen, Dennis Broeders

      Pages 81-89

   6. The New Co-Development Agenda: Official and Non-Official Initiatives between Morocco and Spain

      • Alejandra Boni, Joan Lacomba

      Pages 91-101

   7. Financial Globalization and the Mechanisms of Migrants’ Remittance: Formed by Supply or Demand?

      • Amrita Sharma, Karim Knio

      Pages 103-115

   8. Managing Migration in the IOM’s World Migration Report 2008

      • Beatriz Campillo Carrete, Des Gasper

      Pages 117-132

4. Migrant Experiences: Agency in the Grey Zone

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Mission Impossible? Voluntary and Dignified Repatriation of Nigerian Victims of Trafficking

      • May-Len Skilbrei, Marianne Tveit

      Pages 135-145

   3. Migrant Women and Their Vulnerability in the Trafficking-Migration Continuum: Evidence from Asia

      • Yu Kojima

      Pages 147-158

   4. The EU’s Ambiguous Position on Migrant Underage Workers

      • Roy Huijsmans

      Pages 159-168

   5. Learning How to Work the Grey Zone: Issues of Legality and Illegality among Indian Students in Australia

      • Michiel Baas

      Pages 169-179

5. Transnational Identities and Issues of Citizenship

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   2. Gender, Technology and Migration in Export-Production of Shrimps: Identity Formation and Labour Practices in Surat Thani Province, Thailand

      • Bernadette P. Resurreccion, Edsel E. Sajor

      Pages 183-195

   3. Changing Identities, Multi-local Politics and Citizenship: Reflections on the Agency of Migrants from Indonesia and their Descendants in the Netherlands

      • Ton van Naerssen

      Pages 197-207

The volume places the migration-development-security nexus in the field of transnational studies. Rather than treating these three categories as self-evident, the essays excavate aspects of power and privilege built into their governing frameworks and conflicting rationales apparent in practices of control. Bringing together diverse experiences and case studies, the volume highlights the problematic nature of maintaining distinct and disconnected frameworks of governance. It argues for a new approach that demonstrates the significance and usefulness of comparative ethics in conceptualising migration from a human-centered and gendered perspective in order to address the multi-facetted and multi-dimensional nature and meanings of "security".

• Gender
• Human Security
• Identity and Citizenship
• Neo-liberalism
• Transnational Migration

• Institute of Social Studies, s-Gravenhage, Netherlands

  Thanh-Dam Truong, Des Gasper

Thanh-Dam Truong is co-ordinator of the research group on Migration and Human Security and Associate Professor in Women, Gender and Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Many of her publications address the nexus of gender, migration and human security, including: Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in Southeast Asia. Des Gasper is Professor of Human Development, Development Ethics and Public Policy at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Nether-lands. Previous work includes: (with Raymond Apthorpe): Arguing Development Policy – Frames and Discourses (London: Frank Cass, 1996).

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