This paper examines the issue of migration control in Malaysia. Despite the fact that the
majority of the world's migratory movements are between countries in the Global South, the …

In 2009, the ETC Group estimated that some 70% of the food that people globally consume
originates in the 'peasant food web'. This figure has been both embraced and critiqued, and …

Migrant labour has increasingly become key to the functioning of many economies including
in Asia. While existing studies have generated rich understandings of precarity, there …

The experience of transnational migrants working for low pay under exploitative conditions
has been well-documented for many years. Yet, a sizeable catalogue of binding …

This paper examines the experiences of local fishing crew in Pacific Island states who join
distant water fishing vessels, drawing on Fijian fishers as a case study for our discussion …

For several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational
corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North …

What sort of political actors are international migrants? This article approaches this question
by studying how migrants move between legality and illegality. We have struggled to …

ABSTRACT In the Global South, states are increasingly using regularization programs as a
means of managing migrant populations. These regularization programs are often described …

The COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia drew attention to the extremely poor living conditions
of the country's approximately 2.5 million migrants from South and Southeast Asia working in …

In recent years, labour in fisheries has emerged as a field of study, gaining traction both from
academics and through policy implementations. Fish workers often migrate across …