In recent years, critical border studies have developed sophisticated concepts and
methodologies for exploring the multifaceted spatialities, sociologies and temporalities of …

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 …

This paper explores the question of what traceability systems mean for the labour situation of
fishworkers; for whom and in what respects is traceability effective, and what impact do these …

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 …

Through examining the experiences of Burmese migrant workers in Malaysia this paper
analyses the complicated relationship between legal status and protection from violence …

International migration has become a global phenomenon bringing with it complex and
interrelated issues related to the physical and mental well-being of the people involved. This …

International regimes govern how officials address specific issue areas in global politics.
There is a deep and unresolved debate as to whether we can speak of an international …

Security is more than ever a central theme in the study of international migration. For the
past twenty years, research on the securitization of migration has burgeoned. While these …

Recent research on the 'migration industry'has provided a means to interrogate how private
actors come to be used as a means to facilitate, direct and control migration. Both through …

Critical border studies have shown that it is no longer very useful to think of borders as fixed
demarcations at the edge of the nation state. Instead, such scholarship has illustrated how …