This book is a collection of work by migration scholars and researchers who are actively
conducting fieldwork in Southeast Asia. It presents a wide variety of current research and
approaches the field of international labor migration from a regional perspective
acknowledging that the migration process goes beyond local and national boundaries and is
embedded in regional and global interconnections. The chapters capture the complexity and
richness of the migration phenomenon and experience which manifests itself in a multitude of
ways in a region well known for its diversity. The collection highlights the continuities and
discontinuities in the linkages that have been forged through the movement of people between
sending and receiving societies. Such linkages are explained by distinguishing between
migration that has been sustained by a colonial past and migration that has been precipitated
by globalization in the last two decades. The diversity of issues in the region covered by this
volume will encourage a rethink of some of the conventional views of migration scholarship and
result in a more critical reflection of how we approach migration research.
