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Migration Working Group: Labour Migration in the Asia Pacific

Date
September 28, 2021
Time
8:00 AM EDT - 10:00 AM EDT
Location
Online via Zoom
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Join CERC Migration for a series of monthly sessions to discuss the innovative research being done on migration by emerging and established scholars. The Migration Working Group offers the opportunity for researchers to present their ongoing projects, learn about each other’s work and share feedback. The September Migration Working Group addresses the theme labour migration in the Asia Pacific.

Discussions will be moderated by Richa Shivakoti, Senior Research Associate, CERC Migration, Ryerson University.

Presentations:

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 Regulation through responsibilization: Exit policies and the production of precarious migration from South Asia to the Gulf

 Jolin Joseph, York University

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 Migration and development, without care?

 Matt Withers, Macquarie University

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 Contesting transnational public policies: The politics of transnational administration of labour migration policies

 Kidjie Saguin, University of Amsterdam

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 Export on hold: Design-retract-design cycle on the foreign deployment of Filipino nurses in Covid-19 times

 Exequiel Cabanda, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore