Migration governance and the migration industry in Asia: moving domestic workers from Indonesia to Singapore

Looks at the issue of domestic workers in Singapore

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 August 2017
Country:
Indonesia, Singapore
Document Type:
Journal Article
Theme:
Governance and Conflict
Authors:
Goh, Charmian, Wee, Kellynn, Yeoh, Brenda S.A.

Abstract

Paper is based on interviews with employment agencies deploying Indonesian domestic workers to Singapore from 2015 to 2016. The authors argue that migrant-destination states in Asia devolve responsibility for workers to the migration industry to order migration flows and circumvent formal cooperation with origin countries.

This work was supported by the UK Department for International Development through the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium

Citation

Charmian Goh, Kellynn Wee, Brenda S.A. Yeoh , Migration governance and the migration industry in Asia: moving domestic workers from Indonesia to Singapore (2017) International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Volume 0, (2017) 1–33 ) https://doi.org/10.1093/irap/lcx010

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