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Merchants of Migrant Domestic Labour
Liberty L. Chee
2025
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This open access book discusses the market logic of recruitment agencies who deploy migrant domestic workers in Southeast Asia. Agencies are involved in all stages of worker migration trajectory – from their selection, to their training, and their management at the destination. The book describes how and why these private actors play such an outsized role in this kind of worker mobility, and examines their relations with employers, workers and state apparatuses. It focuses on agents operating in the largest migrant sending countries (the Philippines and Indonesia) and receiving countries (Malaysia and Singapore) in Southeast Asia. These pioneering migration industries in the region have established practices and norms that have and continue to diffuse to other world regions. This book is of interest to policymakers, practitioners, students and researchers in migration studies, global governance, gender and migration, globalization and development, Southeast Asian studies, and area studies in political science.
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Keywords
- critical political economy
- Domestic worker migration
- feminist political economy
- Global migration governance
- Labour brokerage
- market governance
- Migrant domestic work in Southeast Asia
- Migration in Southeast Asia
- Migration industry
- Migration infrastructure
- Neoliberal migration governance
- open access
- Power in global governance
- Private employment agencies
- Recruitment agencies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCF Labour / income economics
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-03353-6Editions