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Challenging State Sovereignty in the Age of Migration

Challenging State Sovereignty in the Age of Migration Migration, especially ‘irregular’ migration, has become the principal political issue in many high-income OECD member countries, including EU member states, with 244 million people estimated to live outside their country of origin, among them 24 million refugees. In fact, however, the presence of non-nationals in communities and labour markets across the world has been expanding for decades, especially in areas of the ‘Global South’, and migrants make up a disproportionate number of global workers engaged in risky, uncertain and precarious forms of labour everywhere. Global institutions have started to recognise that a better understanding of transnational labour markets, the work migrants take on and emerging forms of global and regional governance of the labour and social rights of migrants is essential to inform more effective—and more rights-based—migration governance, if the transnational movement of people is to be of sustained and equitable benefit globally. Yet, despite the celebration of migrant transnationalism as a positive force at the micro level and the emergence of coordinative practices at the global level, many states are still perceiving migration as a challenge to state sovereignty.This issue relates this topic to Southeast and East Asia where the movement of labour migrants and refugees is as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Journal of East Asian Studies Brill

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1568-0584
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1570-0615
DOI
10.1163/15700615-01602005
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Abstract

Migration, especially ‘irregular’ migration, has become the principal political issue in many high-income OECD member countries, including EU member states, with 244 million people estimated to live outside their country of origin, among them 24 million refugees. In fact, however, the presence of non-nationals in communities and labour markets across the world has been expanding for decades, especially in areas of the ‘Global South’, and migrants make up a disproportionate number of global workers engaged in risky, uncertain and precarious forms of labour everywhere. Global institutions have started to recognise that a better understanding of transnational labour markets, the work migrants take on and emerging forms of global and regional governance of the labour and social rights of migrants is essential to inform more effective—and more rights-based—migration governance, if the transnational movement of people is to be of sustained and equitable benefit globally. Yet, despite the celebration of migrant transnationalism as a positive force at the micro level and the emergence of coordinative practices at the global level, many states are still perceiving migration as a challenge to state sovereignty.This issue relates this topic to Southeast and East Asia where the movement of labour migrants and refugees is as

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European Journal of East Asian Studies – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2017

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