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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/migration-pathway-deportabilit
 y-and-migration-control-the-cases-of-filipino-and-burmese-irregular-migran
 ts-in-china/
SUMMARY:Migration Pathway\, Precariousness and Migration Control: the Case 
 of Irregular Migrants From the Philippines and Myanmar to China
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and t
 he Harvard University Asia Center\n\nChina\, emerging as a new destination
  for international migration\, has been receiving an increasing number of 
 labor migrants from neighboring countries. Except for limited pilot scheme
 s in border areas\, Chinese authorities have not issued work visas to fore
 ign migrant workers nationwide\; thus\, international labor migrants in mo
 st non-border regions are classified as sanfei renyuan (people entering\, 
 staying\, and working illegally). This research focuses on irregular migra
 nt workers from Southeast Asia to China\, with particular attention to fem
 ale migrant workers from the Philippines and Myanmar. Based on interviews 
 and participant observation with both irregular migrants and immigration o
 fficials at the grassroots level\, this study examines how irregular migra
 tion pathways are shaped by geopolitics and migration policies over the pa
 st decade. It also investigates how migration control—particularly the d
 eportation regime toward irregular migrants—is mutually constituted by t
 he state\, the discretionary power of migration officials\, citizens\, and
  non-citizens. The research further demonstrates that\, in the face of tig
 htened migration controls during and after the COVID-19 pandemic\, irregul
 ar migrant workers have exercised agency despite their marginalized and pr
 ecarious conditions.\n\n&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
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