Overview
- Examines the emergence, commercialization and regulation of the migration industry in Asia
- Highlights the increasing co-dependence on, entanglement of and overlap between migrants, the industry and the state
- Considers how the State actively contributes to formalizing the industry’s role in migration trajectories
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Michiel Baas is a Research Fellow with the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. Most of his work centers on questions related to India, in particular with reference to the topics of migration, mobility and transnationalism.
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Book Title: The Migration Industry in Asia
Book Subtitle: Brokerage, Gender and Precarity
Editors: Michiel Baas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9694-6
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9693-9Published: 09 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9694-6Published: 26 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 136
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Migration, Women's Studies, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology