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Migration has no respect for either borders or boundaries. Although the title of this volume is ‘International Migration in Southeast Asia ,’ the movements of people have occurred and continue to be within the region, between regions in Asia, and across the North-South divide. The region is home to some of the largest labor surplus countries, namely the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Research on contemporary migration in Asia are dominated by the view that migration is an economically driven phenomenon; hence, the overwhelming interest in labor migration. However, if migration is regarded as more than an economic phenomenon, then we can appreciate how incredibly diverse it is as a human and social experience. When we do capture the diversity of such migration trajectories within the interstices of conventional flows of people recognized by the state and mainstream scholarship, we can see how the experience of migration can be treated in a novel way.
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Lian, K.F., Rahman, M.M., Alas, Y.b. (2016). Making Sense of Inter and Intraregional Mobility in Southeast Asia. In: Lian, K., Rahman, M., Alas, Y. (eds) International Migration in Southeast Asia. Asia in Transition, vol 2. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-712-3_1
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