Regional Disputes over the Transnationalization of Domestic Labour: Malaysia's ‘Maid Shortage’ and Foreign Relations with Indonesia and Cambodia

Elias, Juanita; Louth, Jonathon

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“…In the light of a more regulated environment in which states try to create more regulations concerning the governance of migrant workers (Elias and Louth, 2016), few studies have tried to unpack the state that is mainly assumed to be a relatively homogeneous entity. The paper aims to fill a gap in the literature by examining how the intra-institution interactions within the regulatory area in both the central and sub-national governments affect the persistence of chaotic management of migrant worker recruitment in Indonesia.…”

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Institutional Dynamics of Regulatory Actors in the Recruitment of Migrant Workers

Karim

2017

Asian J Soc Sci

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This paper examines how institutional dynamics among regulatory institutions affect the governance of the recruitment of Indonesian low-skilled migrant workers. Two institutional reforms have been made to create better governance for Indonesian migrant workers in the post-authoritarian era. One was the establishment of the National Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI) while the other was the granting of greater responsibility to sub-national governments to supervise migrant worker recruitment. In spite of these institutional reforms, little progress has been made in the protection of Indonesian migrant workers. The paper reveals that the restrictive regulatory framework for the recruitment of migrant workers, which curbs private recruitment agencies, does not create better migrant worker governance. This regulatory framework does not take into consideration the horizontal relationship between the old and new institutions, and the vertical relationship between the central and sub-national governments. Horizontally, the institutional design of the proposed new regulatory framework has created institutional rivalry between the newly established regulatory actor and the old one. Vertically, the reluctance of central government to decentralise authority to sub-national governments has curtailed the ability of sub-national governments to perform a supervisory role in the recruitment process. These two inter-related factors have hindered the efforts to create a better recruitment process for Indonesian migrant workers.

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Section: The State Institution and Bureaucracy: Institutional Approacmentioning

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Institutional Dynamics of Regulatory Actors in the Recruitment of Migrant Workers

Karim

2017

Asian J Soc Sci

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The Politics of Cross-Border Mobility in Southeast Asia

Ford

2023

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This Element explains how cross-border mobility defines diplomatic relationships between Southeast Asian states and social and political dynamics within the region's key destination countries. It begins by providing an historically situated discussion of bordering processes within the region, examining evolving historical conceptions of power and sovereignty, and processes of bordering in colonial and post-colonial times. It then turns to the political, environmental, and economic drivers of contemporary cross-border mobility before examining governments' efforts to manage different kinds of border-crossers and the tensions that these efforts give rise to. Having discussed the politics of cross-border mobility in host communities, the Element returns to the question of why consideration of bordering practices and cross-border mobility is necessary in understanding contemporary Southeast Asia.

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Regional Disputes over the Transnationalization of Domestic Labour: Malaysia's ‘Maid Shortage’ and Foreign Relations with Indonesia and Cambodia

Cited by 2 publications

References 44 publications

Institutional Dynamics of Regulatory Actors in the Recruitment of Migrant Workers

Institutional Dynamics of Regulatory Actors in the Recruitment of Migrant Workers

The Politics of Cross-Border Mobility in Southeast Asia

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