Temporary labour migration in Asia: The transnationality‐precarity nexus
| Published date | 01 August 2022 |
| Author | Nicola Piper |
| Date | 01 August 2022 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12982 |
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International Migration. 2022;60:38–47.
wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/imig
Received: 12 Feb ruary 2021
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Revised: 3 Novembe r 2021
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Accepted: 28 Janua ry 2022
DOI: 10.1111/imig.12982
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE
Temporary labour migration in Asia: The
transnationality- precarity nexus
Nicola Piper
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© 2022 The Auth ors. International Migration published by John W iley & Sons Ltd on behalf o f International Or ganization for
Migration.
School of Law, Queen Ma ry University of
London, London, UK
Correspondence
Nicola Piper, School of L aw, Queen Mary
Universit y of London, Mile End Ro ad,
London E1 4NS, U K.
Email: n.piper@qmul.ac.uk
Funding information
The study re ceived funding from B ritish
Academy Glo bal Professor Fellow ship
GP1/100168.
Abstract
Much of intra- Asian labour mig ration is regulated on the
basis of governing tools t hat aim at managing cross- border
movement of workers on a strictly temporary, e mployer-
tied basis. The key elements involved in the operation-
alization of st rictly temp orary mi gration are recruitment,
remittances and return; these thr ee ‘Rs’ are al so cen-
tral to global polic y discussions aroun d the migration-
development nex us. The core premise of this paper is that
this strict fram ework results in a particular form of migrant
precarity which in turn shapes migrant transn ational-
ity, leaving migrants with severely circums cribed labour
agency. This leads to the a rgument that tempor ary migra-
tion para digm as practiced in much of Asia constitutes i n-
voluntary transn ationalism. The paper ends by arguing that
based on proactive migrant righ ts activism, the involuntary
character of t ransnationalism is being chall enged by bring-
ing a different set of ‘Rs’ into th e discussion derive d from
global social policy and global just ice perspectives: regula-
tion, redistrib ution and rights.
KEYWORDS
Asia, global gove rnance, migrant rights a dvocacy, migration-
development nex us, precarity, rights- based approach, tempor ary
labour migrat ion, transnationalit y
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