This paper reviews policies and laws governing migrant inflows and their presence in the
Malaysian economy. This study finds that policy failures are basically built on the ad hoc …

Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-
economic group and at every life stage. Nowhere in the world do women share equal social …

Multinational maids' offers an in-depth investigation into the international migrations of
Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestic workers. The author taps on her rigorous study of …

The Ethics and Politics of Immigration provides an overview of the central topics in the ethics
of immigration with contributions from scholars who have shaped the terms of debate and …

States benefit financially from the remittances received by “remittance heroes,” yet migrant
workers are constantly in a precarious position, especially when their contracts expire and …

Background Neoliberal globalization contributes to the out-migration of labour from sending
countries in the global South. Supported by multilateral organizations including the IMF and …

What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant
workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently …

Post-cold-war-era conflicts and the humanitarian political economy have driven two
disparate yet concurrent shifts within the humanitarian field. On one hand, new public …

This book examines the commercialisation of domestic and care work through private
agencies that organise transnational care arrangements by brokering migrant workers. The …

Focusing on the South-East Asian region and looking specifically at activism around the
position of migrant domestic workers in the region, this article seeks to evaluate why migrant …