Merchants of Migrant Domestic Labour: Recruitment Agencies and Neoliberal Migration Governance in Southeast...

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Liberty L. Chee

Merchants of Migrant Domestic Labour

Recruitment Agencies and Neoliberal Migration Governance in Southeast Asia

Liberty L. Chee

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English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
01 September 2025

Migration, immigration & emigration; Sociology; Public administration; Labour economics; Human geography

Series: IMISCOE Research Series

This open access book discusses the market logic of recruitment agencies who deploy migrant domestic workers in Southeast Asia. Agencies are involved in all stages of worker migration trajectory – from their selection, to their training, and their management at the destination. The book describes how and why these private actors play such an outsized role in this kind of worker mobility, and examines their relations with employers, workers and state apparatuses. It focuses on agents operating in the largest migrant sending countries (the Philippines and Indonesia) and receiving countries (Malaysia and Singapore) in Southeast Asia. These pioneering migration industries in the region have established practices and norms that have and continue to diffuse to other world regions. This book is of interest to policymakers, practitioners, students and researchers in migration studies, global governance, gender and migration, globalization and development, Southeast Asian studies, and area studies in political science.

By: Liberty L. Chee
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
ISBN: 9783032033529
ISBN 10: 3032033527
Series: IMISCOE Research Series
Pages: 146
Publication Date: 01 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Trade in Workers Who Make All Other Work Possible.- 2. Neoliberal Migration Governance: A Theoretical Framework.- 3. Labour Supply and Demands of the Market in Domestic Work.- 4. Training, Packaging and Commodification.- 5. Quality Control, Mediation and Management.- 6. Conclusion.

Liberty Chee is a MarieSklodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Her research examines migrant domestic work through the interdisciplinary lenses of feminist political economy, migration studies and international relations theory. She has been working within the ambit of global migration governance, notably the role of intermediaries (the ‘migration industry’) in shaping globalizing markets in domestic work. She is interested in IR theory, interpretive research methods, and feminist epistemology.