Translocal precarity: Labor and social reproduction in Cambodia

WN Green, J Estes - Annals of the American Association of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Many people in the Global South have left behind rural homes in search of employment in
urban and transnational labor markets often defined by precarious work. Employment is …

Debt, land and labour: Cambodian migrant workers' precarious livelihood strategies

G Blau, D Arnold - Global Social Policy, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines how livelihood security is co-produced through multiple strategies in
Southeast Asia's agrarian transformation, by considering the case of Cambodian migrant …

Hacking migration control: Repurposing and reprogramming deportability

AK Franck, D Vigneswaran - Security Dialogue, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
What sort of political actors are international migrants? This article approaches this question
by studying how migrants move between legality and illegality. We have struggled to …

Rethinking free skilled labour migration policies in CLMV countries: a qualitative systematic review

H Daovisan, P Phukrongpet… - Asian Education and …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose There is an ongoing debate in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint
2015 concerning the skilled labour migration policy regimes. This review aims to …

The trade-offs of legal status: Regularization and the production of precarious documents in Southeast Asia

M Bylander - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT In the Global South, states are increasingly using regularization programs as a
means of managing migrant populations. These regularization programs are often described …

The 'street politics' of migrant il/legality: Navigating Malaysia's urban borderscape

AK Franck - Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Immigration control constitutes a particular technique for regulating urban space and for
controlling and disciplining migrant subjects within it. Unlike other manifestations of state …

Transnational migration and the involuntary return of undocumented migrants across the Cambodian–Thai border

R Nurick, S Hak - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Migration from Cambodia is a major livelihood strategy for rural communities, with most rural
families having at least one, usually younger, member migrating in search of work. The …

Migrant protection regimes: Beyond advocacy and towards exit in Thailand

D Vigneswaran - Review of International Studies, 2020 - cambridge.org
International migrants are subject to many types of violence, such as trafficking, detention,
and forced labour. We need an improved understanding of what protects migrants from such …

Navigating migrant trajectories through private actors: Burmese labour migration to Malaysia

AK Franck, EB Arellano, JT Anderson - European Journal of East Asian …, 2018 - brill.com
Recent research on the 'migration industry'has provided a means to interrogate how private
actors come to be used as a means to facilitate, direct and control migration. Both through …

The role of external actors in sha** migrant health insurance in Thailand

C Herberholz - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The role of external actors in national health policy in aid-independent countries has
received relatively little attention in the literature, despite the fact that influence continues to …