On the coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia
Positioning migrants as quintessential globalisation subjects, this paper reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the ambivalent positioning of migration as a pathway for human development. Drawing on interviews with international and domestic labour migrants from Bangladesh, India, Laos and M...
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| author | Suhardiman, Diana Rigg, J. Bandur, M. Marschke, Melissa J. Miller, M. A. Pheuangsavanh, N. Sayatham, M. Taylor, D. |
| author_browse | Bandur, M. Marschke, Melissa J. Miller, M. A. Pheuangsavanh, N. Rigg, J. Sayatham, M. Suhardiman, Diana Taylor, D. |
| author_facet | Suhardiman, Diana Rigg, J. Bandur, M. Marschke, Melissa J. Miller, M. A. Pheuangsavanh, N. Sayatham, M. Taylor, D. |
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| description | Positioning migrants as quintessential globalisation subjects, this paper reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the ambivalent positioning of migration as a pathway for human development. Drawing on interviews with international and domestic labour migrants from Bangladesh, India, Laos and Myanmar working in Laos, Myanmar, China, Singapore and Thailand, the paper explores the vulnerabilities, challenges and opportunities that have come with migration and how these have been reconfigured as the pandemic has progressed, disproportionately heightening migrants’ exposure to the virus and their socioeconomic precarity. Through their personal stories, the paper provides insights into the evolving livelihood pathways of migrant workers during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, their (changing) views of migration as a route to progress, and tentatively sets out how ruptures caused by the pandemic may lead to a re-thinking of livelihood pathways for such men and women and their families. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1103452024-05-01T08:15:47Z On the coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia Suhardiman, Diana Rigg, J. Bandur, M. Marschke, Melissa J. Miller, M. A. Pheuangsavanh, N. Sayatham, M. Taylor, D. migration migrants migrant labour labour mobility covid-19 pandemics sustainable livelihoods globalization working conditions unemployment remuneration uncertainty social aspects economic aspects households demography Positioning migrants as quintessential globalisation subjects, this paper reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the ambivalent positioning of migration as a pathway for human development. Drawing on interviews with international and domestic labour migrants from Bangladesh, India, Laos and Myanmar working in Laos, Myanmar, China, Singapore and Thailand, the paper explores the vulnerabilities, challenges and opportunities that have come with migration and how these have been reconfigured as the pandemic has progressed, disproportionately heightening migrants’ exposure to the virus and their socioeconomic precarity. Through their personal stories, the paper provides insights into the evolving livelihood pathways of migrant workers during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, their (changing) views of migration as a route to progress, and tentatively sets out how ruptures caused by the pandemic may lead to a re-thinking of livelihood pathways for such men and women and their families. 2021-01-02 2020-11-30T06:33:07Z 2020-11-30T06:33:07Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110345 en Limited Access Informa UK Limited Suhardiman, Diana; Rigg, J.; Bandur, M.; Marschke, M.; Miller, M. A.; Pheuangsavanh, N.; Sayatham, M.; Taylor, D. 2020. On the coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 23p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1844561] |
| spellingShingle | migration migrants migrant labour labour mobility covid-19 pandemics sustainable livelihoods globalization working conditions unemployment remuneration uncertainty social aspects economic aspects households demography Suhardiman, Diana Rigg, J. Bandur, M. Marschke, Melissa J. Miller, M. A. Pheuangsavanh, N. Sayatham, M. Taylor, D. On the coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia |
| title | On the coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia |
| title_full | On the coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia |
| title_fullStr | On the coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia |
| title_short | On the coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia |
| title_sort | on the coattails of globalization migration migrants and covid 19 in asia |
| topic | migration migrants migrant labour labour mobility covid-19 pandemics sustainable livelihoods globalization working conditions unemployment remuneration uncertainty social aspects economic aspects households demography |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110345 |
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