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The conclusion summarises the main themes of the book, arguing that migration border regimes across the region of Southeast Asia and the Pacific have been transformed by the institutional framing of irregular migration as a criminal and security threat. However, carceral regimes of migration control cannot prevent irregular migration; they can only displace it and make migrant lives more precarious in the process. To reduce the precarity of migrant lives, states in the region must be pressured to adopt protection mechanisms for asylum seekers and migrant workers, find alternatives to detention and other forms of arbitrary enforcement, and maximise freedom of movement.
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Henry, N. (2018). Conclusion. In: Asylum, Work, and Precarity. Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60567-8_8
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