The politics of sanitization: Pandemic crisis, migration and development in Asia-Pacific [0.03%]
净化的政治：亚太地区疫情危机、移民与开发政策
Yuk Wah Chan,Pei-Chia Lan
Yuk Wah Chan
COVID-19 has resulted in new anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility and forced governments to simultaneously re-engineer policies for temporary health control and longer-term border-crossing and migration policies;...
Yuk Wah Chan,Pei-Chia Lan
Yuk Wah Chan
This concluding article serves as an epilogue summing up key issues about migration, labor migrants and development amid a crisis of public health. We predict the forging of an age of sanitization in which different kinds of sanitizing poli...
Rajni Singh,Navneet Manchanda,Rakesh Mishra
Rajni Singh
The education sector in India was among the most affected sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic. While considerable attention has been paid to informal workers' return or reverse migration to their home communities, not much has been reporte...
Sanitizing the national body: COVID-19 and the revival of Japan's "Closed Country" strategy [0.03%]
净化国家身体：新冠肺炎与日本“锁国”战略的回归
Gabriele Vogt,Sian Qin
Gabriele Vogt
Japan's handling of border control measures during the COVID-19 pandemic has become known as sakoku-approach. Sakoku literally means "closed country" and generally refers to a historic period when the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603-1868) kept Jap...
Sanitized boundaries, sanitized homes: COVID-19 and the sporadic hyper-precarity of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong [0.03%]
清洗过的边界，清洗过的家：新冠疫情下香港外籍家庭佣工的断续式极端不稳定状态
Yuk Wah Chan,Nicola Piper
Yuk Wah Chan
This paper explores the "sporadic hyper-precarity" encountered by migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong when the city was hit by the Omicron outbreaks in early 2022. Migrant workers have long been suffering from job insecurity and structura...
New Zealand border restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers [0.03%]
新冠疫情下新西兰临时移民劳工的入境限制及其影响
Liangni Sally Liu,Guanyu Jason Ran,Xiaoyun Jia
Liangni Sally Liu
In September 2021, Immigration New Zealand (INZ) announced the offer of a one-off residence visa category - the 2021 Resident Visa, to over 165,000 temporary migrant workers and their family members living in the country. The offer was a re...
Shifting borders and migrant workers' im/mobility: The case of Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
疫情下的台湾边境、人口迁移与劳工流动——新冠疫情期间的台湾案例分析
Pei-Chia Lan
Pei-Chia Lan
The COVID-19 pandemic intensified border control and disrupted international labor migration, but the complex consequences for migrant workers, including deepened marginalization and countervailing opportunities, have yet to receive suffici...
Infection, temporality and inequality: Sanitizing foreign bodies and protecting public health in Taiwan [0.03%]
感染、时间性与不平等：台湾的防疫政策及公共卫生保护措施
Isabelle Cheng
Isabelle Cheng
This paper probes how temporality is integral to the health examination regime that aims to protect citizens from infectious diseases in Taiwan. The paper finds that migrant workers in less-skilled occupations are examined more frequently t...
Emergent political remittances during the pandemic: Evidence from a survey of overseas Filipino workers [0.03%]
新冠疫情期间海外菲律宾劳工的政治汇款：一项调查证据
Imelda B Deinla,Gabrielle Ann S Mendoza,Ronald U Mendoza et al.
Imelda B Deinla et al.
This article examines the experiences and assessments of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) on the Philippine government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is part of the growing migration literature exploring the formation of pol...
Employment of highly-skilled migrants during the pandemic: Focus on internal migration in Indonesia [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的高技能移民就业：聚焦印度尼西亚国内移民
Evi Nurvidya Arifin,Aris Ananta
Evi Nurvidya Arifin
This article examines whether highly-skilled migrants (HSMs) have better employment prospects compared to low-skilled migrants (LSMs), highly-skilled non-migrants (HSNMs) and low-skilled non-migrants (LSNMs) during the unsettling time of th...