George Palattiyil, Md. Tariqul Islam Limon, M. F. Jubayer, Habibur Rahman, Irin Sultana, Mesbha Uddin Ahmed, Dina Sidhva, H. Nair
{"title":"Reflections on the multi-sectoral response to COVID-19 in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps","authors":"George Palattiyil, Md. Tariqul Islam Limon, M. F. Jubayer, Habibur Rahman, Irin Sultana, Mesbha Uddin Ahmed, Dina Sidhva, H. Nair","doi":"10.1177/01171968231190331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231190331","url":null,"abstract":"While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact people globally, refugees comprise a vulnerable population, particularly those living in densely populated areas. In Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazar is currently home to almost a million Rohingya refugees. Because of the lack of healthcare, sanitation and water, as well as overcrowding, refugees were at high risk of becoming ill during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Moreover, superstitions and lack of trust in the healthcare system threaten to put the community at further risk. To prevent tragic consequences, national and international attention and action are required to strengthen the health system for Rohingya refugees. The community will require surveillance and testing, infection prevention and control measures, adequate food supplies, and access to improved healthcare services. This paper calls for a multi-sectoral approach to developing an action plan and implementation strategy to minimize the impact of COVID-19 on this vulnerable population.","PeriodicalId":46248,"journal":{"name":"Asian and Pacific Migration Journal","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74519530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immigration and labor shortages: Learning from Japan and the United Kingdom","authors":"Gracia Liu-Farrer, A. Green, Ceren Ozgen, M. Cole","doi":"10.1177/01171968231188532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231188532","url":null,"abstract":"Industrialized countries have increasingly used skill-based selective migration policies to reduce labor and skill shortages. But are these policies effective? This paper uses Japan and the United Kingdom to illustrate how immigration policy and employment, training and labor practices influence labor and skill supply. Until recently, these two countries had different migration policies and labor practices. Yet data shows similar patterns of labor and skill shortage profiles in both countries. This paper draws on empirical research to argue that such outcomes suggest that immigration policies will not alleviate labor and skill shortages unless accompanied by the transformation of employment and training practices.","PeriodicalId":46248,"journal":{"name":"Asian and Pacific Migration Journal","volume":"45 1","pages":"336 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79509825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migrant immobilities beyond the pandemic: Changing migration patterns and aspirations","authors":"L. Hoang, Juan Zhang","doi":"10.1177/01171968231182032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231182032","url":null,"abstract":"Transnational migration entails profound changes to gender subjectivities and family structures, social networks and urban landscapes, and lifestyles and aspirations. Pandemic-induced immobilities have led many to question the assumed links between migration and mobility, and heightened interest in mobility inequalities. This research note offers critical insights into the “immobility turn” scholarship and highlights the gaps in our understanding of immobilities as both a social phenomenon and a conceptual tool. By placing our analytical focus on migrant immobilities, this research note sheds light on important changes in the meanings and values associated with migration and (im)mobility across contexts.","PeriodicalId":46248,"journal":{"name":"Asian and Pacific Migration Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82427763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New immigrant destinations and the role of the migration industry: Moving Filipino domestic workers to Mainland China","authors":"Hui Chen, Yungang Liu, B. Yeoh","doi":"10.1177/01171968231191287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231191287","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, while scholarly work on new immigrant destinations (NIDs) within the United States and Europe has increased, little attention has been given the role and significance of the migration industry in promoting the emergence of NIDs. This is a particularly significant lacuna as some Asian nations are undergoing dramatic migration transition despite the lack of immigration regulatory infrastructure. In this context, focusing on the role of commercial intermediaries play in the formation of NIDs is an important perspective in understanding migration transition in Asia. Drawing on qualitative interviews with Filipino domestic workers and intermediaries, this paper analyzes how intermediaries promote Mainland China as a new destination for the Filipino domestic workers by creating a new promising market, border-crossing tactics, as well as managing migrant workers using training and control strategies at ground level.","PeriodicalId":46248,"journal":{"name":"Asian and Pacific Migration Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"183 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83424279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social and economic integration of highly educated/high-skilled migrants in East and Southeast Asia: Overview of the Special Issue","authors":"E. Fong","doi":"10.1177/01171968231172526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231172526","url":null,"abstract":"Attracting highly educated/high-skilled migrants has been a major policy issue for many East and Southeast Asian economies. Highly skilled migrants do not necessarily have higher levels of education, but highly educated migrants have usually acquired higher levels of skills. Over the past few decades, a growing number of economies in East and Southeast Asia have implemented policies to attract or retain highly educated/high-skilled migrants, including nurses, highskilled technicians, computer scientists, engineers and financial analysts. We define highly educated individuals as those with university education or above-average education in their local labor market, while the highly skilled is broadly defined as those with high level of training, special skills, or those who acquired both. At the same time, economies in other parts of the world have been actively recruiting similar highly educated/high-skilled groups. Therefore, economies in East and Southeast Asia compete not only with other economies in the region, but also with developed economies in other parts of the world. In response to the high demand and potentially high rewards, welleducated migrants have become very mobile. According to Czaika (2018), in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)","PeriodicalId":46248,"journal":{"name":"Asian and Pacific Migration Journal","volume":"24 10 1","pages":"3 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91051639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: The Politics of International Marriage in Japan","authors":"Jocelyn Celero","doi":"10.1177/01171968231174409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231174409","url":null,"abstract":"during the COVID-19 pandemic. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 31(3): 225–246. Silva HA (2021)Migraciones, crisis y pandemias en el siglo XXI. Argentina, Chile y Uruguay. [Migrations, crises and pandemics in the 21st century: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay]. Santiago: Ariadna Ediciones [In Spanish]. Triandafyllidou A (2021) Migration and Pandemics: Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG. Vogt G and Qin S (2022) Sanitizing the national body: COVID-19 and the revival of Japan’s “closed country” strategy. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 31(3): 247–269.","PeriodicalId":46248,"journal":{"name":"Asian and Pacific Migration Journal","volume":"117 1","pages":"176 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79453035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The logics of staying for highly skilled Asian migrants in Japan","authors":"Gracia Liu-Farrer","doi":"10.1177/01171968231168137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231168137","url":null,"abstract":"Japan welcomes highly educated migrants, but do these migrants stay on in Japan? Drawing on a web survey of 600 immigrant employees working in Japan, this paper evaluates different factors influencing migrants’ stay and leave intentions. The results indicate that economic and employment-related reasons have limited impact on migrants’ stay intentions. Nationalities also predict migrants’ varied willingness to stay in Japan, indicating the blurring boundary between economic and cultural logics of migration. Among all factors, marrying locals provides the strongest incentive to stay, demonstrating again that affective and social ties exercise the most power in anchoring the migrants.","PeriodicalId":46248,"journal":{"name":"Asian and Pacific Migration Journal","volume":"61 1","pages":"105 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84563181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Migrant Workers in Singapore. Lives and Labor in a Transient Migration Regime","authors":"Lara Momesso","doi":"10.1177/01171968231174961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231174961","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46248,"journal":{"name":"Asian and Pacific Migration Journal","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134996112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A gendered analysis of family, work, social spheres and life satisfaction: The case of highly educated migrants in Hong Kong","authors":"Pui Kwan Man, Rebecca Yiqing Gan, E. Fong","doi":"10.1177/01171968231170503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231170503","url":null,"abstract":"Migration is expected to bring higher life satisfaction with better social and economic achievement. While studies on life satisfaction treat migrants mainly as a single homogeneous group, knowledge about highly educated migrants is scant in current migration scholarship. Highly educated migrants may not have the higher life satisfaction because they may also have higher expectations. To complicate matters further, there may be gender differences in the experiences and life satisfaction of highly educated migrants. This study examines the factors associated with levels of life satisfaction among highly educated migrants from a gender perspective. First, we examine whether the level of life satisfaction differs by gender. Second, we explore various factors associated with the life satisfaction of highly educated migrants and whether these factors differ by gender. We examine these relationships using data from a respondent-driven sampling of 2,884 highly educated Mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong. Our results indicate that the life satisfaction of female migrants is related to their social networks, whereas the life satisfaction of male migrants is related to economic security.","PeriodicalId":46248,"journal":{"name":"Asian and Pacific Migration Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":"129 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88293102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classic assimilation, self-selection and parent status: An analysis of the central–local political trust among highly educated Mainland migrants in Hong Kong","authors":"Ka Wang Kelvin Lam, Hua Zhong, Gloria Yuxuan Gu","doi":"10.1177/01171968231167922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231167922","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research overlooks highly educated migrants and their political incorporation in host societies. This study applies both classic assimilation and self-selection theories to understand political trust among highly educated migrants from Mainland China in Hong Kong, including their trust toward local (host society) and central (home society) governments. We also address the possibility of selective assimilation adopted by migrant parents as risk-reducing strategies. Based on a survey of highly educated Mainland migrants in Hong Kong (n = 2,884), our results show partial support for both theories. Migrants’ political trust is influenced by both their post-migration political exposure and their pre-migration political attitudes. Moreover, migrant parents tend to remain bicultural, showing more positive attitudes toward both governments in host and home societies.","PeriodicalId":46248,"journal":{"name":"Asian and Pacific Migration Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"83 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83564716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}