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The 2017 persecution of the Rohingyas resulted in around a million
Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh, India and Malaysia. This book
investigates the complex challenges of managing the large-scale
refugee exodus in Bangladesh and how best to resolve these
challenges in the future. Using a mixed-method approach that
includes a survey, key informant interviews and numerous short case
studies of persecution, the authors also examine the problematic
influence of the media, as local depictions of Rohingya refugees
often caused further tension and division in the midst of the
refugee crisis. The book’s analysis offers a deeper understanding
of the causes and drivers of identity-based politics among
Myanmar’s Rohingya.
While decisions for working overseas are often based on
expectations and promises of better jobs, opportunities, economic
gains and, eventually, a better future, such assumptions may not
always be realized. Focusing on the question of why migrants,
despite not realizing their earlier aspirations, continue to remain
as migrants rather than return home, this book provides a unified
understanding of the rationalization of the migration decision
making. It does so by empirically situating the study in the
experiences of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Hong Kong and
Malaysia.
While decisions for working overseas are often based on
expectations and promises of better jobs, opportunities, economic
gains and, eventually, a better future, such assumptions may not
always be realized. Focusing on the question of why migrants,
despite not realizing their earlier aspirations, continue to remain
as migrants rather than return home, this book provides a unified
understanding of the rationalization of the migration decision
making. It does so by empirically situating the study in the
experiences of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Hong Kong and
Malaysia.
The book examines the impact of COVID-19 on economic and political
processes, contending that the global reaction to the pandemic has
been the largest failure in scientific policy in a generation.
Unlike earlier crises, it has impacted the world's leading
economies while also paralyzing international ties, provoking
diverse and far-reaching reactions. The authors posit that no
effective global response has been launched in response to this
global catastrophe. Rather, governments have implemented a variety
of policies based on the costs of virus protection against
financial closure and isolation. In doing so, there has been a
resurgence in nationalism. This book aims to provide comprehensive
understanding of how the pandemic has widened political gaps, and
demarcates what the long-term consequences might be in terms of
policies and economics in the wake of the pandemic. Of interest to
scholars in political geography, development studies, international
relations, public administration, and health science, this book
presents key observations on existing theories of global politics
pivoted around the COVID-19 pandemic, and its ramifications on
individuals, groups, and ultimately, the nation
state. Â
This book investigates the long-term impact of migration on
development, engaging in a thorough analysis of the pertinent
factors in migration. Migration scholars and stakeholders have long
placed emphasis on the necessity of migration for development. At
the heart of this book is the question: Has migration made
development necessary, or is it the other way around? While
existing literature is predominantly occupied with positive
impressions about the migration-development nexus, this book
challenges associated pervasive generalizations about the impact of
migration, indicating that migration has not impacted all regions
equally. This volume thus grapples with the different extents to
which migration has impacted development by delving into the social
costs that migrants often pay in the long run. With empirical
support, this book proffers that some countries are becoming
over-dependent on migration. An excellent resource for both
policymakers working on migration policy, and scholars in
international relations, migration and development studies, this
book presents a range of innovative ideas in relation to the
remittance-development nexus.
The book examines the impact of COVID-19 on economic and political
processes, contending that the global reaction to the pandemic has
been the largest failure in scientific policy in a generation.
Unlike earlier crises, it has impacted the world's leading
economies while also paralyzing international ties, provoking
diverse and far-reaching reactions. The authors posit that no
effective global response has been launched in response to this
global catastrophe. Rather, governments have implemented a variety
of policies based on the costs of virus protection against
financial closure and isolation. In doing so, there has been a
resurgence in nationalism. This book aims to provide comprehensive
understanding of how the pandemic has widened political gaps, and
demarcates what the long-term consequences might be in terms of
policies and economics in the wake of the pandemic. Of interest to
scholars in political geography, development studies, international
relations, public administration, and health science, this book
presents key observations on existing theories of global politics
pivoted around the COVID-19 pandemic, and its ramifications on
individuals, groups, and ultimately, the nation state.
This book investigates the long-term impact of migration on
development, engaging in a thorough analysis of the pertinent
factors in migration. Migration scholars and stakeholders have long
placed emphasis on the necessity of migration for development. At
the heart of this book is the question: Has migration made
development necessary, or is it the other way around? While
existing literature is predominantly occupied with positive
impressions about the migration-development nexus, this book
challenges associated pervasive generalizations about the impact of
migration, indicating that migration has not impacted all regions
equally. This volume thus grapples with the different extents to
which migration has impacted development by delving into the social
costs that migrants often pay in the long run. With empirical
support, this book proffers that some countries are becoming
over-dependent on migration. An excellent resource for both
policymakers working on migration policy, and scholars in
international relations, migration and development studies, this
book presents a range of innovative ideas in relation to the
remittance-development nexus.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted about 1 billion migrants (both
international and domestic) in a variety of ways, and this book
demonstrates how COVID-19 has widened the gaps between citizens,
non-migrant and migrant populations in terms of income, job
retention, freedom of movement, vaccine etc.While there is an
emerging literature studying the impacts of COVID-19 on migration,
the situation in Southeast Asia has not received much scholarly
attention. This book fills the literature gap by studying the
experiences of migrants and citizens in Brunei, Malaysia and
Singapore and highlighting how the pandemic has exacerbated
inequalities between and within the groups. These three countries
are studied due to their high reliance of migrants in key economic
sectors. Findings in this volume are derived from a qualitative
approach, complemented by secondary data sources.This book is
appropriate for undergraduate and postgraduate students of
population studies, epidemiology, political science, public policy
and administration, international relations, anthropology,
psychology, sociology, and migration and refugee studies. Migration
and labour scholars benefit from the nuanced comprehension about
how a pandemic could cause a schism between migrants and the
population at large. Policymakers may consider the proposed
recommendations in the book to improve the migration situation.
This book includes chapters that investigate the development of
international migration policy in major emigrant countries in Asia;
and that in today's highly mobile world, migration has become an
increasingly complex area of governance, inextricably interlinked
with other key policy areas including economic and social
development, national security, human rights, public health
regional stability and inter-country co-operation. Role of
institutions in facilitating or de-facilitating migration, the
potential impact of environmental degradation on population
displacement are key contents of the book. This book recommends
that migration policy be aligned in a way so as to incorporate
migrants' rights. Migrants, wherever they move on and whatever
their status is must not be stripped of their human rights. Due to
the fact that migrants, especially female migrants are more
vulnerable at the destination point to multiple abuses than at
their original location, migration policy has to take this into
account.
Migration has become a heterogeneous phenomenon today, with the
emergence of migration lying in the quest of human beings to obtain
a better life. However, this is not the sole factor for migration
because some migrate for sheer survival while others migrate to
improve their quality of life or search for fortune. The dominant
explanatory model used in the study of migration has been
Ravenstein's fundamental model. This book presents and discusses a
number of such models which present information on the history of
human mobility.
Historical knowing is a force in modern transformations of the
world and a means for making the country in the image of the
nation. Histories have formed territoriality and development
trajectories of the modern day, so the past of its emergence
depicts much of its present and future. The modern development
pioneers attached emphasis on the potential of historical past of
the countries for growth. This book however revisits arguments
about the interaction between history and development in South and
Southeast Asia through examination of a few key factors such as:
the Asian economic miracle; the 1997 Asian financial crisis;
historical and political development of major economies of South
and Southeast Asia; development challenges; gender, reproductive
health and the scourge of HIV/AIDS, corruption and governance,
rural development, tourism, and social work. This book is a
valuable source of knowledge about history and development of South
and Southeast Asia for graduate and under graduate students;
scholars of any area of social sciences.
Humans have extensively migrated in the greatest variety of
circumstances throughout history. The cause factors have been
climatic, political, economic, religious, and love of adventure.
Today, around 200 M people are living beyond their homes of origin.
And yet a number of people fall prey to unconventional, if not
risky, migration paths. One of these paths is by being trafficked -
often called modern-day slavery is the recruitment, transportation,
or receipt of people for the purpose of exploitation. About 600,000
to 800,000 people, mostly women and children, are annually
trafficked across national borders. In addition, some people are
also forced to leave their origin for reasons of race, religion,
nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political
opinion and become refugees in third countries. The numbers have
been alarmingly, on the rise. All the three issues have been very
significant in the study of human geography, sociology, and in
political economy. Interested scholars and students of all branches
of social sciences will find this book useful.
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