What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant
workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently …

This article argues that the view of international mobility in the management and
organization literature has been too restrictive in focusing only on high-status workers. This …

Contrary to popular claims, civil society is not generally shrinking in Southeast Asia. It is
transforming, resulting in important shifts in the influences that can be exerted through it …

This article proposes a cumulative approach to contemporary manifestations of unfree
labour based on an exploration of dynamic combinations of common elements of the …

How does precarious work entail social vulnerabilities and moral complicities? Theorists of
precarity pose two challenges for analysing labour conditions in Asia. Their first challenge is …

In this article we discuss the entanglement of apps, mobilities, and migration–and the way
that apps work as migrant infrastructure in a Covid context. We develop our analysis through …

Temporary migrant workers in Southeast Asia are subject to various abuses in recruitment,
work and repatriation. A decade ago ASEAN governments committed to developing an …

Abstract In February 2021, the Myanmar military seized power in a coup, bringing to an end
a decade of quasi-civilian electoral rule, during which workers in Myanmar had organised …

Guest worker programs entail an intrinsic tension between control over workers' mobility and
workers' agency. By drawing on the qualitative data from Chinese construction workers in …

We propose a framework for citizen social science that brings together three reinforcing
elements of a research project–scale, citizen-leadership, and publicness–to improve …