Cross‐border mobility, inequality and migration intermediaries: Labour migration from Nepal to Malaysia

IF 17.7 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI:10.1111/imig.13232

Heila Sha, Yvonne Khor

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This article aims to contribute to labour recruitment policy by demonstrating the relations between cross‐border mobility and inequality through the lens of migration intermediaries. Drawing on thematic analysis of the MIDEQ project's in‐depth interviews with Nepalese labour migrants (n = 20) in Malaysia, this research reveals the range of migration intermediaries along the recruitment chain, and shows contradictory roles played by migration intermediaries: they help migrant workers access employment and other opportunities thus overcoming inequality in mobility, whilst simultaneously reproducing socio‐economic inequalities and the unequal power relations experienced by migrants. Hence, we identify a “middle space effect” that links migration processes with migration outcomes, reconstructing socio‐economic inequalities in mediated migration. We highlight the role of state policies regarding migration and labour in co‐producing such inequalities, and the embeddedness of middle space intermediaries in unequal global power dynamics, and we offer policy suggestions on regulation of labour recruitment and employment.

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跨境流动、不平等和移民中介：从尼泊尔到马来西亚的劳动力迁移

本文旨在通过移民中介的视角，展示跨境流动与不平等之间的关系，从而为劳动力招聘政策做出贡献。通过对 MIDEQ 项目在马来西亚对尼泊尔劳工移民（n = 20）进行的深入访谈进行专题分析，本研究揭示了招聘链上的一系列移民中介，并显示了移民中介所扮演的矛盾角色：他们帮助移民工人获得就业和其他机会，从而克服了流动中的不平等，同时也再现了移民所经历的社会经济不平等和不平等的权力关系。因此，我们发现了一种 "中间空间效应"，它将移民过程与移民结果联系起来，在中介移民中重构了社会经济不平等。我们强调了有关移民和劳动力的国家政策在共同产生这种不平等现象中的作用，以及中间空间中介在不平等的全球权力动态中的嵌入性，并就劳动力招聘和就业监管提出了政策建议。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.