En-Gendering Insecurities

The Case of the Migration Policy Regime in Thailand

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7299059
AutoresPhilippe Doneys (0000-0002-1705-7789, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume1
Fascículo2
Data de publicação2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Social Quality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1757-0344 • E-ISSN: 1757-0352
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/ijsq.2011.010205
OpenAlexW2149379372
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas8

The paper examines the migration policy regime in Thailand using a human security lens. It suggests that insecurities experienced by migrants are partly caused or exacerbated by a migration policy regime, consisting of migration laws and regulations and non-migration related policies and programs, that pushes migrants into irregular forms of mobility and insecure employment options. These effects are worse for women migrants who have fewer resources to access legal channels while they are relegated to insecure employment in the reproductive or informal sectors. Using a gender and human security analysis, therefore, reveals how the migration policy regime, often informed by a restrictive national security approach, can clash with the human security needs of migrants by creating a large pool of unprotected irregular migrants with women occupying the most vulnerable forms of employment. In conclusion, it is suggested that this ‘en-gendering’ of human insecurities could be overcome if gender equality was designed into policies and guided their implementation

Border Security · Criminology · Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Gender equality · Human migration · Human resources · Human rights · Human security · Human trafficking · Irregular migration · Political science · Population · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration