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Title
Fluid security in the Asia Pacific : transnational lives, human rights and state control / Claudia Tazreiter [and four others].
ISBN
9781137465962 (electronic book)
1137465964 (electronic book)
9781137465955
Published
[London] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
JV9120
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.80994
Summary
This book explores the experiences of temporary migrants in the Asia-Pacific region. It develops the original concept of 'fluid security' to analyse the way in which persons carry a set of tools, strategies and attitudes across spatial, temporal and imagined borders. This concept applies a mobilities lens to human security in order to take into account the aspirations and needs of mobile populations appropriate for a globalising world. The book brings to light the diverse experiences of mobility and the multiple vulnerabilities experienced by individuals that intersect with, and sometimes challenge, national security domains. The authors analyse mobility patterns that are diversifying at a rate far outstripping the capacity of governments to adapt to the human security needs of mobile populations. While the idea of global citizenship may be held up as an ideal through which access to rights is not an arbitrary lottery, it remains far from a reality for the majority of migrants. They are excluded from the migratory flows global elites engage in almost at will. This important book advances the idea that mobile individuals can generate their own security when they have agency and the ability to plan; that experiences of security are not necessarily tied to permanence; that mobile populations benefit from policies that support transnational life; and that fluid security is enhanced when individuals are able to carry a bundle of rights with them.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 7, 2016).
Series
Transnational crime, crime control and security.
Chapter 1. In Search of 'Fluid Security': The Outline of a Concept
Chapter 2. Methodology
Chapter 3. Chinese Students: Isolated Global Citizens
Chapter 4. Indonesian Temporary Migrants: Australia as a First Preference or Last Resort
Chapter 5. Samoan-Born New Zealanders as Trans-Tasman denizens
Chapter 6. Tonga
Chapter 7. The Decision to Leave: Processes that Drive Mobility
Chapter 8. Reaching Australia: Processes That Mediate Mobility
Chapter 9. Processes of Reception and Inclusion in Australia
Chapter 10. Conclusion.
