1st Edition

Migrant Workers and ASEAN A Two Level State and Regional Analysis

By Anisa Santoso Copyright 2017
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has made slow progress in defining a regional policy for the protection of migrant workers. This book examines the normative structures within the institutions at play at both state and regional level of ASEAN, which influence the making of a migrant workers' protection policy.The author puts forward a novel alternative policy analysis tool –... Read more


Part 1: Towards a Normative Institutional Framework in the Making of ASEAN's Migrant Workers Policy



1. Migrant Workers Protection Policy in ASEAN: Background



2. Towards a New Policy Analysis of Two-Level Sociological Institutionalism



Part 2: The First Level : Analysis at the Regional Level



3. Existing ASEAN Frameworks and Developments within the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)



4. The Present and Future of Workers Migration in ASEAN: Perspectives from Malaysia



Part 3: The Second Level: Institutionalist Analysis at the State Level



5. The Indonesian Experience



6. The Other Second Level Game: The Philippines Perspectives on a Regional Policy for Migrant Workers Protection



Part 4: Reflections on the Two Level Sociological Institutionalism Approach



7. The Road Ahead: Towards an ASEAN Migrant Workers Protection Policy in the Era of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and Beyond

Biography

Anisa Santoso is a Lecturer at the International Relations Department, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Indonesia, and Manager of Research and Community Engagement at the Graduate School of Multidisciplinary Studies, Universitas Indonesia.