Managing migration in the G reater M ekong S ubregion
Regulation, extra‐legal relation and extortion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8069633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sai S W Latt (0000-0002-5724-9849, Geography Department Simon Fraser University Burnaby British Columbia Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-56 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sjtg.12012 |
| OpenAlex | W1519976869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 12 |
One major aim of the G reater M ekong S ubregion ( GMS ) integration programme, supported by the A sian D evelopment B ank ( ADB ), is to foster regional ‘community’ for sharing resources, people and financial flows. This ‘community’ is the target of both economic growth and poverty reduction. The emphasis on ‘community’ in the ADB 's mushrooming quantity of documents raises important questions about what kinds of people are included, in what roles and with what kinds of support and protection. This paper explores these questions in relation to the political economy of regulating ethnic migrants from M yanmar working in T hailand. This paper argues that extra‐legal relations between migrants and state/para‐state agents constitute a crucial part of regulation. In transferring the regulation of migration to the national scale, the ADB inadvertently reinforces national differences between Thais and cross‐border people. Additionally, the complicated and fluctuating implementation of national regulations in both countries leaves migrants subject to violence and extortion from state and quasi‐state agents in T hailand. This paper shows that the dynamics of global capitalism require ‘deportable labour’ supplied by ethnic migrants who are included in the GMS community as the most invisible, vulnerable and exploited members
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |