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Migration and Security: Implications for Minority Migrant Groups

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  • AKM Ahsan Ullah

    (AKM Ahsan Ullah is Associate Professor in Geography Environment and Development at the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD). Ullah’s research portfolio includes stints at the Southeast Asian Research Centre (SEARC), Hong Kong; IPH, University of Ottawa, Canada, McMaster University; the American University in Cairo (AUC), Saint Mary’s University, University of Ottawa, Dalhousie University, Canada; City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. In his home country Bangladesh, he was the Research Coordinator of Plan International, an international organization focusing on child and rural development. His research areas include population migration, human rights, development, environment and health policy. His works appeared in most prominent outlets (journals and publishers) in the areas of his interests. Dr Ullah has contributed 50 articles to refereed journals. He contributed at least 40 chapters in a number of books and published 15 books.)

  • Noor Hasharina Hasan

    (Noor Hasharina Hasan is a lecturer at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UBD. Dr Hasharina has a PhD in Geography from the Southampton University, UK. She is now a lecturer at the Geography, Environment and Development Programme and is a Research Associate with the Institute of Asian Studies. She is also Deputy Director for the Office of Assistant Vice Chancellor (Research) and Head of Borneo Studies Network Secretariat, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the King’s College London as well as a Visiting Scholar at the East West Centre, Hawaii. Dr Hasharina published widely on security, poverty, and globalization etc.)

  • Siti Mazidah Mohamad

    (Siti Mazidah Mohamad is lecturer at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), UBD. Dr Mazidah has a PhD in Human Geography from the Durham University, UK. She has served as the head of the department at FASS. She has published widely on a range of issues such as migration, security, Spatialities of Muslim identities; Micro-geographies of young people’s lives focusing on their everyday use of new social media and their virtual mobility; and Muslim Cosmopolitanism.)

  • Diotima Chattoraj

    (Diotima Chattoraj has a PhD (with distinction magna-cum-laude) from the Department of International Development Studies (IEE), Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany. She received funding from DAAD, Stipendien der Wilhelm und Günter Esser Stiftung and IEE to pursue her PhD research. At University Brunei Darussalam (UBD), Dr Diotima is presently involved in the Research Project “Skill Mobility from ASEAN countries: A cost-benefit Analysis.†This is a faculty block funded research. This research argues that sending countries lose skill, which cannot be offset or justified by the remittances inflow. Her areas of research interests include migration, forced migration (i.e. Rohingya), development, ethnicity, international relations, and boundary-making. She has published a number of articles and book reviews in refereed journals. She has been peer reviewer for a number of refereed journals.)

Abstract

International migration is a highly contested topic and has become a critical part of the global security agenda due to the growing fear of terrorism notably after 9/11. There is a lack of relevant baselines and a gap in scholarly work that shows the direct connection between migration and security. This paper aims to identify the circumstances under which migration can be considered as a security issue. For this, we conducted an extensive literature review and interviews with policy-makers and staffs from migration regime as well as migrant professionals in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines between May 2018 and March 2019. The concepts of migration and security act as the theoretical standpoint of this paper. The findings show that the formation of an illusory correlation between migration and security has resulted in an extreme act of biasness towards migrant minority groups.

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  • AKM Ahsan Ullah & Noor Hasharina Hasan & Siti Mazidah Mohamad & Diotima Chattoraj, 2020. "Migration and Security: Implications for Minority Migrant Groups," India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, , vol. 76(1), pages 136-153, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indqtr:v:76:y:2020:i:1:p:136-153
    DOI: 10.1177/0974928419901199
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