Asylum, Work, and Precarity: Bordering the Asia-Pacific

by Nicholas Henry

Book Overview

This book explores the regional coordination and impact of state responses to irregular migration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The main argument is that regional and international trends of securitisation and criminalisation of irregular migration, often associated with framing the issue in terms of migrant smuggling and human trafficking, have intensified carceral border regimes and produced greater precarity for migrants. Bilateral and multilateral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319868918
• ISBN13: 9783319868912
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"