Abstract
Since the mid 2000s, safe migration programmes have grown in popularity within the aid sector in the Mekong region, which denotes a qualitative spatio-temporal shift in migration governance. Anticipation (intervening prior to exploitative labour migration manifesting itself) and traceability (targeting labour migrants throughout their migration cycles regardless of their location) are key characteristics within safe migration discourse. As I show below, safe migration programmes operationalise these spatial and temporal qualities through re-embedding migrants as instruments of policy interventions.
| Original language | English |
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| Specialist publication | MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |