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

• Main Author: Henry, Nicholas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific,
• Subjects: Asia-Politics and government.; Emigration and immigration.; Social history.; Asia-History.; Asia-Economic conditions.; Asian Politics.; Migration.; Social History.; Asian History.; Asian Economics.

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 te...