Migration management expresses the idealizations of policymakers: how they view the
world's ideal biopolitical and geopolitical organization. This article presents an analysis of …

How are migrant communities policed in cities of the Global South where racially securitized
discourses and colonial institutional legacies shape contemporary police practice? Critical …

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 …

This paper analyzes how policy-relevant actors understand the causes and effects of labor
immigration to Malaysia, the country that receives the highest number of migrant workers in …

Immigration control constitutes a particular technique for regulating urban space and for
controlling and disciplining migrant subjects within it. Unlike other manifestations of state …

Discourses around illicit markets for irregular migration focus on criminality and global
dimensions threatening border security and the sovereignty of the state. Organised crime …

This chapter calls for more sustained attention to Rohingya movement as an ontological
activity that has largely been observed in episodic manner. Subsumed into the limited …

Quantifying undocumented populations is a persistent challenge globally. A shortage of
reliable estimates limits analysis of unauthorized migrations, effective policy responses, and …

This article examines a case in which three fishermen were sentenced for people smuggling
after having rescued 99 refugees from their sinking ship near Indonesia. The analysis is …

This paper examines transformations undertaken by the Malaysian government in reforming
its deportation policy, operation, and enforcement. It focuses on the post-2008 period during …