Opening the Black Box of Migration: Brokers, the Organization of Transnational Mobility and the Changing Political Economy in Asia INTRODUCTION

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Marriage and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on mobility

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • National

• UN Countries

  • China
  • Indonesia
  • Lao People’s Democratic Republic
  • Malaysia
  • New Zealand
  • Republic Of Korea
  • Singapore
  • Thailand
  • Viet Nam