Burmeister-Rudolph Mira
Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ethn Racial Stud. 2024 Oct 25;48(4):763-788. doi: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2404485. eCollection 2025.
Approximately one-third of the world's 169 million migrant workers come from the Asia and Pacific region, primarily working in temporary, low-wage jobs in the Gulf, where they face human and labor rights issues. In 2003, 12 Asian migrant-origin states formed the Colombo Process to address these labor concerns. This article examines and contrasts two major emigrant-origin states' - India and Bangladesh -behavior in the Colombo Process, a regional consultative process, and other multilateral migration governance fora, focusing on the social construction of skills. Both countries inherited a colonial legal system of emigration regulation which distinguished emigrants into "high-" and "low-skill" categories, which India continues to reproduce, while Bangladesh aims to reformulate their categorization. This article investigates the how, where, and when of the countries' emigrant categorization processes by tracing the categories' origins, their reproduction, and reformulation. This article highlights the significant role migrant-origin states play in the politics of skill.
全球1.69亿移民工人中约三分之一来自亚太地区，他们主要在海湾地区从事临时低薪工作，在那里面临人权和劳工权利问题。2003年，12个亚洲移民输出国成立了科伦坡进程，以解决这些劳工问题。本文考察并对比了两个主要移民输出国——印度和孟加拉国——在科伦坡进程（一个区域协商进程）以及其他多边移民治理论坛中的行为，重点关注技能的社会建构。两国都继承了区分移民为“高技能”和“低技能”类别的殖民移民监管法律体系，印度继续沿用，而孟加拉国则旨在重新制定其分类。本文通过追溯这些类别的起源、延续和重新制定，研究了两国移民分类过程的方式、地点和时间。本文强调了移民输出国在技能政治中所起的重要作用。
