Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia

Willem van Schendel is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He is author of several books, including A History of Bangladesh (Cambridge University Press 2009) and The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia (Anthem Press 2005)Lenore Lyons is an Honorary Associate in the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney. Recognized as the leading scholar on the feminist movement in Singapore, she recently completed a major study of citizenship, identity and sovereignty in the Riau Islands of IndonesiaMichele Ford is Associate Professor of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, where she teaches and researches about social activism and human rights in Southeast Asia. She is the author of Workers and Intellectuals: NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement (NUS/Hawaii/KITLV 2009)

• 1. Labour Migration and Human Trafficking 2.Agency by Proxy: Women and the Human Trafficking Discourse in the Philippines 3. International Politics, Anti-Trafficking Measures and Sex Work in Cambodia 4. The Inexorable Quest for Trafficking Hotspots Along the Thai-Lao Border 5. Counter-Trafficking and Migrant Labour Activism in Indonesia’s Periphery 6.Trafficking ‘Not-Spot’ in a China-Vietnam Border Town 7. Territorial Sovereignty and Trafficking in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands 8.Exploitation and Escape: Journeys Across the Burma-Thailand Frontier 9. Discretion and the Trafficking-like Practices of the Indonesian State

"This book is an important contribution to an understanding of migration, wartsand all, in Southeast Asia...In all, the book is an informative and stimulating collection of papers." - Chris Manning, The Australian National University, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies