Introduction: Practices of Brokerage and the Making of Migration Infrastructures in Asia

Shrestha, Tina; Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

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“…This formula expresses a spatiality of distinct and separate nation states and a temporality of migrants moving in a linear fashion towards knowable futures -methodological nationalism tied to conceptions of fully agentive and rational economic actors, in other words. A focus on the middle space of migration generates a very different view of migration's geographies (Kern and Mü ller-Bö ker, 2015;Shrestha and Yeoh, 2018). Migration platforms can emerge in multiple locale and are necessarily interlinked across territories, reconfiguring local, regional and global flows, while migration itself needs to be seen as a continuous process without established beginning or end points.…”

Section: Multinational Migrationmentioning

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Geographies of migration I: Platform migration

Collins

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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This first report on research about the geographies of migration examines the sociotechnical platforms that enable migration and shape its outcomes. I begin by examining two areas of recent inquiry that analyse (1) commercial actors that form migration industries and (2) the broader infrastructures that underpin and direct migration. To elaborate on these insights, I also discuss observations of multinational (stepwise) migration as grounded evidence for the importance of sociotechnical systems in understanding the geographies of migration. Addressing platform migration reconfigures the spatialities and temporalities of migration, highlighting the diverse and distributed actors, networks and institutions generating, directing and constraining movement in the world.

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Section: Multinational Migrationmentioning

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Geographies of migration I: Platform migration

Collins

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Recruitment at the beginning of this process involves a chain of intermediaries, who at the very local level may be family members, teachers, or other local officials, and who pass recruits up through to agents licensed by sending states to oversee migration (Lindquist 2012;Xiang 2017). Recruitment intermediaries, however, do more than recruit; they are instrumental in producing the subjectivities amenable to migrant labour, and in ensuring that migrants comply with sending state bureaucratic procedures designed to control and channel outmigration Shrestha and Yeoh 2018).…”

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“…Transnational migrant mobilities reconceptualized as cross-border labour markets are defined as exchanges of labour that are undertaken between and across a country of origin and a country of destination, typically through state-sponsored outmigration policies linked to host-country immigration controls for specific jobs and sectors. While organized transnational exchanges of labour may result in immigration and settlement, they are increasingly associated with forms of circular labour migration, now characterizing most labour migration in the Asia Pacific Shrestha and Yeoh 2018), but also important in the Mexico-North American migration corridor (Pries 2018), and in posted work in the EU (Mense-Petermann 2019, this volume). In most cases these are markets for low wage and semi-skilled migrant labour (Lindquist 2017;Xiang 2017), with demand in destinations driven by labour shortages as well as business models to reduce labour costs (Mense-Petermann 2019, this volume; Wagner and Shire 2019).…”

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The social order of transnational migration markets

Shire

2020

Global Networks

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The 'infrastructural turn' in labour migration studies has shifted attention away from the experiences of migrants to the role of public authorities and private actors in facilitating migrant mobilities. As part of a broader turn towards studying transnational mobilities rather than immigration and settlement, this research shows that the formalization of transnational labour migration has made mobility both freer and more difficult. In this article, I reinterpret mobility infrastructures from a market sociological perspective. Transnational labour migration, I argue, is more clearly conceptualized as the organized 'making' of cross-border labour markets. Moreover, from a market sociological perspective the construction of cross-border labour exchanges is at the same time a question of how the uncertainties inherent in market exchanges are coordinated by market actors. In its focus on how exchanges across borders are possible at all, a market sociological perspective makes note of the conflicting interests, power imbalances and uncertainties that must be handled for a social order of transnational migration markets to emerge. An important question concerns whether alternatives to the less regulated neo-liberal market order that is evident in most migration corridors are possible and under what conditions. With reference to the challenges facing the regulation of cross-border labour markets, in my conclusion, I map an agenda for future research.

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“…Brokers instead control the local context by enlisting existing patron-client relationships and/or creating novel ones. There is a renewed interest in brokerage in the context of migration (Lindquist, 2015;Shrestha and Yeoh, 2018) that focusses largely on cash payments and accumulation of finance capital, but there is also a long tradition of brokerage accumulating -or reshaping and deploying -other forms of capital e.g. social, cultural or educational capital (e.g.…”

Section: Introduction: Citizen Aid and Brokeragementioning

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Citizen aid, social media and brokerage after disaster

McKay

Perez

2019

Third World Quarterly

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In a crisis, aid providers deliver humanitarian relief across a hierarchy of organisations where influence and capacity map to their scale of operations (Fouksman, 2016; Mercer & Green, 2015). On the front lines of crises, 'citizen aid' is what small, local and informal groups offer to fellow citizens. These citizen aid groups are well-networked in place and tend to work through longstanding personal relationships (Fechter, in press; Sanchez et al., 2016). In the Philippines, citizen aid groups frequently support their activities by documenting their work with photos of beneficiaries to solicit donations from within the country and around the world across social media platforms (Bonacker et al, 2017.) This paper builds on recent debates on brokerage (Lindquist, 2015) to examine a case of citizen aid in the relief effort after Typhoon Haiyan (2013-2017). We demonstrate how social media has produced new forms of brokerage shaped by circulating images online. This kind of brokerage produced a layered network of brokers that both shaped citizen aid efforts and created new channels for localising aid, enhancing the control of citizen groups in the global Southern over humanitarian aid.

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Introduction: Practices of Brokerage and the Making of Migration Infrastructures in Asia

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Geographies of migration I: Platform migration

Geographies of migration I: Platform migration

The social order of transnational migration markets

Citizen aid, social media and brokerage after disaster

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