Migration in Southeast Asia : Imiscoe Regional Reader

This open access IMISCOE Regional Reader explores the issues faced by migrant groups in Southeast Asia and the challenges of getting of their human rights recognized. It analyses the different responses, or lack thereof, of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to these highly complex situations which are shaped by contemporary debates around borders and concepts of states, migrants’ rights as well as access to citizenship and how these concepts and paradigms are intertwined with issues such as agency and resilience of migrants. Crucial attention is given to the region’s lesser known populations and issues such as the Vietnamese in Thailand, people of Indonesian descent (PIDs) in Southern Philippines, independent child migrants across the region, and the vulnerabilities of migrant workers facing the COVID-19 pandemic. With its unique regional focus, this book provides a valuable resource to those studying human rights and migration issues, policy makers and researchers and students.

Sriprapha Petcharamesree was teaching at the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand for 26 years.  She received her first degree from Thammasat University and her Ph.D. from the University of Paris-X Nanterre, France. She was awarded an Honorary Doctor by the University of Oslo in 2017 for her contribution to human rights works. She plans to join Chulalongkorn University’s Law School as a senior researcher in January 2023.

He has worked directly with child-led organizations on issues such as child migration and trafficking, street children and working children, and has also implemented projects on children in conflict with the law, on violence and abuse against children and addressing the vulnerability of children of internally displaced persons and as child migrants. Much of this work has been in South and East Asia, where Mark has lived for 30 years when he worked with Concern Worldwide, PACT Inc., Save the Children UK and ECPAT International.

As Deputy Director of ECPAT International (2001-2011), Mark Capaldi worked to end the commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking of children. He supported a wide range of programming in all regions of the world, including areas such as: combating child sex tourism; legal reform; care and protection; preventing exploitation of children through the internet and information technology; anti-trafficking initiatives; and the promotion of child and youth participation. From 2011 to 2018, he took on the role of ECPAT’s global Head of Research and Policy.