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Authors:Deepinder Singh, Harwinder Singh, Jagwinder Singh, Raman Kumar Pages: 153 - 171 Abstract: ASEAN's regional norms of sovereign equality, non-interference, consultation and consensus or the 'ASEAN way' are often used as a scapegoat for explaining the failure of ASEAN and, therefore, the lack of change in Southeast Asia. This perspective, however, does not suggest much about deeper state preferences that drive decision-making, even less so the processes in which ASEAN members arrive at their decisions. In contrast, this article contributes to the 'practice turn' in International Relations and argues that the success and failure of ASEAN regionalism very much depends on state's background knowledge - the habitus that predisposes state actions. By examining the deadlock in the almost decade-long negotiations of the ASEAN instrument on the protection of migrant worker rights, this article sheds light on how Malaysia's past experiences with labour migration shape its current practice that is estranged from regional demands, hence creating its reluctance to compromise on the migrant worker rights agenda in ASEAN. Keywords: ASEAN instrument negotiation; ASEAN migration field; ASEAN regionalism; 'ASEAN way'; capital; field; habitus; norm socialisation; Malaysia; migrant worker rights; Pierre Bourdieu; practice theory; practice turn; Southeast Asia Citation: International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2019) pp. 153 - 171 PubDate: 2019-09-24T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJMBS.2019.102419 Issue No:Vol. 5, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Deepinder Singh, Harwinder Singh, Jagwinder Singh, Raman Kumar Pages: 172 - 187 Abstract: Southeast Asians on the move are caught 'between a fluid region and a hard state', as Malaysian historian Farish Noor puts it. Drawing on mobilities theory, this article seeks to locate the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) within this ideational map of flows and gates, arguing that it can best be characterised as a 'semi-soft' entity, mediating between the need for mobility and the fear of mobility. ASEAN intersects with people-movement in the areas of skilled and unskilled labour; connectivity and development; and security and protection. On aggregate, its goals reflect an ambivalence that leaves it open to charges of ineffectiveness, even duplicity. Yet this incoherence might be both an inevitable and also sometimes positive element of ASEAN's shock-absorber role, as it both buffers and is imprinted by the dual pressures of fluidity and fixity. Keywords: ASEAN; people-movement; Southeast Asia; migration; skilled labour migration; unskilled labour migration; irregular migration; forced migration; internal migration; migrant protection; connectivity; development gap; human trafficking; people smuggling; mobiliti Citation: International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2019) pp. 172 - 187 PubDate: 2019-09-24T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJMBS.2019.102417 Issue No:Vol. 5, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Shauna Labman, Jamie Chai Yun Liew Pages: 188 - 211 Abstract: The thousands of migrants crossing the Canadian land border irregularly are challenging the nature of law and the role the law plays at and around, the border. Likewise, the thousands of refugees who enter Canada each year through resettlement are framed within the validity of their legal arrival across the border. The article addresses the perceived notion that there is a singularity of the law along the border that informs which migrant is 'legal' or 'illegal'. We examine the refugee system in Canada to illustrate the various layers that influence the normative discourse on refugee protection. We reveal a tension in rendering persons rhetorically legal or illegal not by whether a person is in need of protection but by the means through which persons seek that protection. This article seeks to understand how this tension is tied to and, buoyed by, moral licensing whereby application of the 'illegal' refugee concept, combined with the self-congratulation surrounding Canada's resettlement activities, act together to empower a moral comfort with slackened support for refugees seeking asylum. Keywords: refugees; illegals; resettlement; borders; migration; Canada-US; irregular-crossings; private sponsorship; IRPA; moral licensing Citation: International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2019) pp. 188 - 211 PubDate: 2019-09-24T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJMBS.2019.102446 Issue No:Vol. 5, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Nisha Toomey, Deanna Del Vecchio Pages: 212 - 231 Abstract: This article explores the effects of the border wall between the US and Mexico, from the perspectives of people living along it and through careful consideration of its effects on non-human persons. Two doctoral students travel 400 miles along the Rio Grande River, examining relationships to place in the US-Mexico borderlands through interviews with DACA recipients and their lawyer, environmentalists, and local hikers. Critical place inquiry foregrounds place as a methodology. Racial melancholia provides a framework for understanding how the border is imagined as necessary for the continuation of the settler colonial project, despite costs to diverse forms of life. Conclusions explore the nonsensical nature of the project of building a wall, the resistance to being categorised as static, and the physical and psychic violence caused by the restriction of movement. Keywords: migration; border studies; Indigenous epistemologies; Black feminist geographies; racial melancholia; qualitative interviews; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals; DACA; Texas; Mexico; border wall Citation: International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2019) pp. 212 - 231 PubDate: 2019-09-24T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJMBS.2019.102449 Issue No:Vol. 5, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Nisha Toomey, Deanna Del Vecchio Pages: 232 - 264 Abstract: The article examines Canadian government's discourse on the 2017-2018 asylum-seeker border crossings from the US. The analysis reveals presence of mixed messages some of which are in keeping with Canada's image of an open and welcoming country committed to its international obligations, while others reinforce concerns about the arrivals and implicitly suggest that they are taking advantage of the system. These mixed messages are in tension with the Liberal Party's brand of inclusive and open Canada, which obtained popular support at the last federal election and has helped the new Liberal government to differentiate itself internationally. Keywords: asylum-seeker; cross-border; information/outreach campaign; deterrence; discourse; migration; irregular; Canada; US Citation: International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2019) pp. 232 - 264 PubDate: 2019-09-24T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJMBS.2019.102448 Issue No:Vol. 5, No. 3 (2019)
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