Territorial sovereignty and trafficking in the Indonesia-Malaysia borderlands

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Abstract

This chapter aims to explore the role that anti-trafficking initiatives have played in attempts by the Indonesian state to reclaim authority along its territorial borders. Drawing on data collected between 2002-2007 through personal interviews, government reports and newspaper clippings, it documents how increased criminalization and the prevention of unauthorized flows of cross-border labour migrants have come to the foreground of national rhetoric concerning border development, territorial sovereignty and security. The chapter argues that the anti-trafficking discourse has had unintended negative consequences along a border where the mundane practices of undocumented labour migration are often not distinguished from the more exploitative practices of human trafficking.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelLabour migration and human trafficking in Southeast Asia : Critical perspectives
RedaktørerMichele Ford, Lenore Lyons, Willem van Schendel
Antal sider18
Vol/bind44
UdgivelsesstedLondon
ForlagRoutledge
Publikationsdato18 apr. 2012
Sider112-129
Kapitel6
ISBN (Trykt)978-0-415-66563-6
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-0-203-12153-5
StatusUdgivet - 18 apr. 2012
NavnRoutledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

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