The Migration Industry in Asia: Brokerage, Gender and Precarity

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This pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia. Grounded in extensive fieldwork and building on empirical data gathered through interactions and interviews with brokers, agents and other facilitators of migration, it examines the increasing co-dependence on, entanglement of and overlap between migrants, industry and state. It considers how for low-skilled migrants, migration is often not even possible without the involvement of the industry. As the opportunity to migrate has opened up to an ever-widening group of potential migrants, receiving nations have fine-tuned their migration infrastructure and programs to facilitate the inflow (and timely outflow) of the migrants it deems desirable. The migration industry plays an active role as mediator between migrants’ desires and states' requirements. This pivot focuses on what unites sending and receiving sides of migration, going beyond presupposed established networks, and offering a clear conceptualization of the contemporary migration industry in Asia. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction: Brokerage, Gender and Precarity in Asia’s Migration Industry (Michiel Baas)....Pages 1-10 Precarity, Migration and Brokerage in Indonesia: Insights from Ethnographic Research in Indramayu (Avyanthi Azis, Rhino Ariefiansyah, Nastiti Setia Utami)....Pages 11-31 Brokered (Il)legality: Co-producing the Status of Migrants from Myanmar to Thailand (Indrė Balčaitė)....Pages 33-58 Understanding the Cost of Migration: Facilitating Migration from India to Singapore and the Middle East (Michiel Baas)....Pages 59-75 Unauthorized Recruitment of Migrant Domestic Workers from India to the Middle East: Interest Conflicts, Patriarchal Nationalism and State Policy (Praveena Kodoth)....Pages 77-107 An Industry of Frauds? State Policy, Migration Assemblages and Nursing Professionals from India (V. J. Varghese)....Pages 109-131 Back Matter ....Pages 133-136