Transnational labour migration in Asia is largely organised by sophisticated networks of
commercial brokers who thrive on highly restrictive migration regimes and disparities in the …

This article considers the disjunctures that exist between the temporalities of legal status and
those of migrants' lived experiences, and explores the relationship between precarity and …

An established body of research now documents the ways that debt both motivates and
shapes migration processes. Yet little scholarship examines the debts migrants incur after …

The purpose of the study is to investigate the causes of distressed migration in western
Odisha, India, as well as how the economic system is affected by debt bondage. It studies …

Research on low-skilled migrants in Asia has emphasized the cost of migration and the
loans with exploitative repayment schemes migrants take out to finance their trajectories …

DOCTORAL THESIS Production of legal status among Hong Kong-based domestic workers
from Bangladesh Page 1 Hong Kong Baptist University DOCTORAL THESIS Production of …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF URBANIZATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
The study of urbanization in Southeast Asia has been a growing field of research over the …

When Lindquist et al.(2010) suggested to think of the middle space that connects sending
and receiving nations as a black box which migration research had a task to pry open in …