Assessing regional cooperation: ASEAN states, migrant worker rights and norm socialization in Southeast Asia

Auethavornpipat, Ruji

doi:10.1080/14781158.2017.1293021

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“…Both actors condemn Thailand’s domestic practices and simultaneously mobilize discursive sanctions threats against Thailand. Both the United States and European Union associate the exploitation of migrant fishers with the larger normative cluster of anti-human trafficking and ‘anti-slavery’, which is well established and highly robust (Auethavornpipat 2017). By embedding norms in the larger normative cluster, it becomes more difficult for norm antipreneurs to resist new norms and for state officials to make generous concessions to norm antipreneurs.…”

Section: Domestic Validation Of International Normsmentioning

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“…Criticisms emerged in response to the trafficking of migrant workers whose labour was used in export production. International NGOs such as the United Kingdom-based Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) and media outlets such as the Guardian and Associate Press started propounding labour rights violations and human trafficking in the seafood supply chain from 2013 onwards (Auethavornpipat 2017). Their reports implicated both the US and EU markets in importing commodities made with exploited migrant labour, effectively mobilizing the United States and European Union to use the threat of sanctions against Thailand.…”

Section: Validation Of Migrant Fisher Protection Norms In Thailandmentioning

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Norm contestation and the weakening of migrant fisher protection in Thailand

Auethavornpipat

2022

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In 2019, Thailand ratified the International Labour Organization Work in Fishing Convention to protect migrant fishers. The Thai government vigorously promoted the Convention among its constituents. Yet, despite the government’s proactivity, such norms have been weakened upon local translation. This phenomenon is not readily explained by existing norms research that pays scant attention to norms in the domestic space. To address this oversight, this article unpacks domestic processes of norm validation and makes a two-step argument. First, it argues that norm validation is crucial for instigating domestic implementation by allowing stakeholders to deliberate and contest the ‘appropriate’ application of norms. Second, it argues that the locally acquired normative understanding, as influenced by norm antipreneurs, or actors who defend the status quo, weakens norm implementation while the norms’ discursive strength is retained. In presenting the findings, this article contributes to the norms literature by illuminating a new life given to validated norms. The contribution also interrogates norms’ global–local dynamics by scrutinizing norm contestation and the extent to which it generates an internalized sense of legal obligation to implement international norms.

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Section: Domestic Validation Of International Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Validation Of Migrant Fisher Protection Norms In Thailandmentioning

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Norm contestation and the weakening of migrant fisher protection in Thailand

Auethavornpipat

2022

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“…First, the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 97 (Migration for Employment Convention) was approved in 1949 and its core principle is the obligation on ratifying states to implement equal treatment between migrant workers and workers of Reviews their own nationals. States should aim to achieve this goal by signing bilateral agreements that specify conditions and recruitment procedures for cross-border employment (Auethavornpipat, 2017;Kuptsch & Martin, 2011). Second, International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 143 (Migrant Workers Convention) was Adopted in 1975 stressing the protection of migrants in exploitative situations as well as equal opportunity and the integration of settled migrants.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This United Nations (UN) Convention covers all types of migrants and also extends the protection to family members. It took 13 years before it came into effect in 2003 when the minimum number of 20 ratifying states was met (Auethavornpipat, 2017;Piper & Iredale, 2003).…”

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Legal Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers: International Law, National Regulations and Contemporary Problems

Hartono¹

2021

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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The research aims to focus on how to conduct an investigation of the regulations for the protections of Indonesian Migrant Workers (IMW) and what efforts are needed by the Indonesian government in addressing the problems for application of regulation. The method uses descriptive research with a qualitative approach through the normative juridical method and data analysis method. With the revised regulation videlicet Law No 18 of 2017, the Indonesian government will not only serve applicant of Indonesian migrant workers but also to their families. Furthermore, it will improve the quality of migrant workers along with protecting and providing safety for their families. The findings showed that Indonesian migrant workers as a legal subject have the rights to be protected and to oblige the requirements which is set by the Indonesian government as sending state and the government of destination state. Legal protection of Indonesian migrant workers in overseas required binding protection which is provided by the state.

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“…Still, the number of skilled migrants who can now travel freely thanks to this initiative is dwarfed by the huge amount of unskilled migrants who form the backbone of key economic sectors, such as agriculture, construction, and seafood processing. Although numbers are imprecise, in Thailand alone the unskilled labour migration population is estimated to be several millions (Auethavornpipat 2017).…”

Section: Development-migration Nexus Between China and The Mekong Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%