Explaining the lack of change in Southeast Asia: the practice of migrant worker rights in the 'ASEAN migration field'

Auethavornpipat, Ruji

doi:10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10018113

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“…With its neighbours, Malaysia has also not concluded stringent regional social security arrangements for migrants: The 2018 ‘ASEAN Consensus on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers’ does contain provisions on social security, but these remain non‐binding (ASEAN, 2018). In fact, Malaysia has blocked the creation of a binding regional instrument for migrants' rights (Auethavornpipat, 2019). Rather, the country relies on bilateral agreements with sending countries (Kaur, 2014).…”

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Choose your battles: How civil society organisations choose context‐specific goals and activities to fight for immigrant welfare rights in Malaysia and Argentina

Henninger

Römer

2021

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How do the goals and activities of civil society organisations (CSOs) that are active in the field of immigrant welfare rights differ between autocracies and democracies? In this paper, we argue that a mechanism of CSO engagement plays out differently in these two political contexts because organisations adapt their goals and activities to the political regime they operate in. In the empirical analyses, we compare democratic Argentina and electoral‐authoritarian Malaysia using data from CSOs' public mission statements as well as from interviews with CSO members from both countries. We find that in Argentina, more universalistic constitutional provisions and commitments to international treaties allowed CSOs to reference norms of equal treatment, arguing for immigrant access to a variety of programmes, including non‐contributory social assistance benefits. In Malaysia, CSOs relied on moral frames of equality to a lesser extent. Instead, they advocated for inclusion in contributory schemes on the basis of deservingness of migrants given their contributions to society, focusing on minimum standards to guarantee that basic needs are met.

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Section: Comparing Contexts Of Cso Engagement: Malaysia and Argentinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Choose your battles: How civil society organisations choose context‐specific goals and activities to fight for immigrant welfare rights in Malaysia and Argentina

Henninger

Römer

2021

Soc Policy Adm

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Explaining the lack of change in Southeast Asia: the practice of migrant worker rights in the 'ASEAN migration field'

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Choose your battles: How civil society organisations choose context‐specific goals and activities to fight for immigrant welfare rights in Malaysia and Argentina

Choose your battles: How civil society organisations choose context‐specific goals and activities to fight for immigrant welfare rights in Malaysia and Argentina

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