Transnational labor contractor regime in the China-Myanmar borderland: Mitigating hyper-precarity in the sugar cane cutting industry

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Border control

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • One sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • China
  • Myanmar