A5071386047- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
- Higher Education and Employability
- Higher Education Governance and Development
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
Peace Research Institute Oslo
2023-2024
National University of Singapore
2018-2023
Scalabrini International Migration Network
2020
In crisis events such as wars, natural disasters and epidemics, migrant workers are among the hardest hit most vulnerable to displacement, unemployment loss of income. The coronavirus pandemic has drawn attention role sending states in protecting labour migrants during disruptions, particularly by returning them countries origin. This article highlights understudied aspect repatriation, which needs be unpacked a process involving actors, policies practices that shape state's capacity for...
The COVID-19 pandemic and interventions addressing it raise important questions about human mobility that have geopolitical implications. This forum uses immobility during the as lenses onto ways routinised state power reacts to acute uncertainties, well how these reactions impact politics societies. Specifically, we propose concept of "shock mobility" migratory routines radically reconfigured: emergency flights from epicentres, mass repatriations, lockdowns, quarantines. Patterns shock are...
Abstract Recent crises signal a timely consideration of how sending state regimes can be understood in their complexity beyond the dominant themes labour brokerage and export existing literature. This article calls for an expanded analysis states by attending to understudied role disruption‐induced returns, particularly repatriation. Examining case Philippines, it argues that interplay actors, institutions policies country not only systematically deploys Filipino migrant workers, but also...
The growing volume of international students has attracted research interest on their return experiences and the potential impacts overseas education in home countries. This paper uses notion aspiration to investigate students’ connection motivations perceived gains from studying abroad. Interviews with Filipino returnees who completed postgraduate studies Europe suggest that plans study abroad involved aspirations Philippines for different reasons, including career family-related factors....
Research on the extraterritorial processes of migration governance has developed a strong focus immigration states' externalisation management and diaspora strategies emigration states. In labour migration, scholarship migrant-sending states largely focused systematic recruitment employment migrant workers; in contrast, question how workers are extraterritorially governed return received less attention, despite its importance for understanding beyond sending country jurisdiction. This paper...
Return migration literature over the years has developed a strand of work that focuses on reintegration migrants in their home countries. In labor migration, this scholarship largely centered long-term and sustainable return migrant workers, potential contributions to local development. comparison, question temporary received far less attention, yet is an important avenue for extending current understandings complex processes international migration. This article contributes inquiry by...