The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Gulf is a major global destination for migrant workers, with a majority of these workers coming from South Asia. In this book, a team of international contributors examine the often-overlooked complex governance of this migration corridor. Going beyond state-centric analysis, the contributors present a multi-layered account of the 'migration governance complex.' They offer insights not only into the actors involved in the different components of migration governance, but also into the varying ways of interpreting and explaining the meaning and value of these interactions. Together, they enable readers to better understand migration in this important region, while also providing a model for analyzing global migration governance in practice in different parts of the world.

Front Matter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Notes on Contributors --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Mapping and Theorizing Migration Governance: Insights from the South-to-West Asian Migration Corridor --; Levels and Forms of Migration Governance --; Gendered Mobility and Multi-Scalar Governance Models: Exploring the Case of Nurse Migration from India to the Gulf --; Understanding Irregularity in Legal Frameworks of National, Bilateral, Regional, and Global Migration Governance: The Nepal to Gulf Migration Corridor --; State and Non-State Actors in Subnational Migration Governance from Andhra Pradesh and Kerala to the Gulf: A Comparative Study --; Private Authorities and Transnational Actors --; Two Bad Places at Once: Pakistani Labour Migrants and the Transnational Recruitment Industry to the Gulf --; "We Sent Our Sons across the Seven Rivers": Tracing the Migratory Network and the Risky Migration of Bangladeshi Fishermen to Oman --; Contestation and Absences in Migration Governance --; Contested Governance and Sovereignty in the Kerala-Dubai Migration Corridor --; Kafala and Social Reproduction: Migration Governance Regimes and Labour Relations in the Gulf --; Invisiblized Migration, Unaccounted Work: The Governance of Women's Migration for Paid Domestic Work from Nepal and Sri Lanka to the Gulf --; Conclusion --; Bottom-up Politics of Labour Migration: Perspectives from the South-to-West Asia Corridor for a More Inclusive Governance --; Index