Emigration States - Migration-Development Policymaking in the Asia-Pacific

Guestworker migration has become an increasingly prominent feature within the economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific. Longstanding regional disparities have underscored the emergence of fragile remittance economies where a structural reliance on labour-export has offered an unsustainable 'fix' for stubborn developmental challenges. Combining political-economic and Foucauldian frames of analysis, this Element reconciles the macroeconomic contradictions of remittance economies with the political logics bound up in emigration policymaking, contending that new modalities of governance have emerged in the transition from developmental to emigration states. Comparing the policy histories of four diverse remittance economies in the region - Myanmar, the Philippines, Samoa, and Sri Lanka - it frames emigration policies as complex, inward-facing interventions that simultaneously promote and constrain mobility to address counterpoised economic and political pressures. Important variations are explored though the example of gendered migration bans, whereby emigration states have situated women's bodies as sites for resolving contextually specific social tensions accompanying labour-export.

Sommario

Introduction: remittance economies and emigration states; 1. Migration instead of development?; 2. From policymaking to governance; 3. Of bans and blacklists; Conclusion: from developmental to emigration states; References.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Matt Withers, Matt (Australian National University) Withers
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009565196
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0956519-6
• Pagine: 92
• Serie: Elements in Global Development Studies
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Finance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, macroeconomics, Migration, immigration & emigration, Political Economy, Migration, immigration and emigration, Currency / Foreign exchange, Pacific Rim countries, Asia-Pacific (APAC)