Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Controls in Asia

Part I. Divided We Move: Migration Challenges in Asia

1. Introduction
Amarjit Kaur, Ian Metcalfe

2. Changing Border Control Regimes and their Impact on Migration in Asia
Tessa Morris-Suzuki

3. Order (and Disorder) at the Border: Mobility, International Labour Migration and Border Controls in Southeast Asia
Amarjit Kaur

4. Coping With Cross-Border Labour Flows Within Southeast Asia
Chris Manning, Pradip Bhatnagar

5. Women, Work and International Migration in Southeast Asia: Trends, Patterns and Policy
Graeme Hugo

Part II. Crossing Borders: The State, Migration Strategies and Temporary Migrant Worker Schemes

6. Trading Labour: Socio-economic and Political Impacts and Dynamics of Labour Export from the Philippines, 1973–2004
Rochelle Ball

7. Indonesian Labour Migration after the 1997–98 Asian Economic and Financial Crisis
Carunia Mulya Firdausy

8. The Feminisation of Migration: Gender, the State and Migrant Strategies in Bangladesh
Ishrat Shamim

9. ‘White-Collar Filipinos’: Australian Professionals in Singapore
Melissa Butcher

10. Indian Professional Workers in Singapore
Seema Gaur

Part III. Managing the Border: Governance of Recruitment, Facilitation of Remittances and Migrant Workers’ Rights

11. The Recruitment of Foreign Labour in Malaysia: From Migration System to Guest Worker Regime
Diana Wong

12. After Nunukan: The Regulation of Indonesian Migration to Malaysia
Michele Ford

13. The State and Labour Migration Policies in Thailand
Patcharawalai Wongboonsin

14. The State and Facilitation of Financial Flows (Remittances) by Temporary Workers: The Case of Bangladesh
Kenneth Jackson

15. Regional Perspectives on the 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers
Nicola Piper

Keywords: Economics, Economic Policy, Labor Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Migration, Political Economy, International Economics