Labour Migration in Malaysia and Spain

Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas is a postdoctoral researcher with the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Immigration at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

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Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas is a postdoctoral researcher with the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Immigration at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

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Acknowledgements
Preface

1. Regulating labour migration
   1.1 The state
   1.2 Markets
   1.3 Citizenship
   1.4 Rights
   1.5 Migration policies
   1.6 Law and illegal migration
   2. Research design and methodology
   2.1 Research questions
   2.2 Case selection
   2.3 Elements of analysis
   2.4 Methodological approach
   2.5 Fieldwork in two sites
   3. Malaysia
   3.1 Introduction
   3.2 Exporting goods, importing labour
   3.3 Towards a guestworker policy
   3.4 Letting them in . . .
   3.5 . . . but only as foreigners
   3.6 Turning illegal migrants into guestworkers
   3.7 Detaining and deporting 'illegals'
   3.8 Final remarks
   4. Spain
   4.1 Introduction
   4.2 From emigration to immigration
   4.3 From emigration control to immigration policies
   4.4 Restricting entry
   4.5 Between guestworkers and citizens
   4.6 Regularisation: an entry policy?
   4.7 Deportation from within and from without
   4.8 Final remarks
   5. Comparative perspective
   5.1 Towards closure
   5.2 The market response
   5.3 Rights' constraints
   5.4 Regaining control
   5.5 Final exclusion
   6. Conclusions
   6.1 State response to labour demands
   6.2 Markets, citizenship and rights
   6.3 The illusion of migration 'management'
   6.4 The state's production of illegality
   6.5 Meanings of illegality
   6.6 Towards a theory of borders and confines

   References
   Annex 1: Maps of Malaysia and Spain
   Annex 2: Acronyms
   Annex 3: Migration Policies
   Annex 4: List of interviews
   Annex 5: Graph of immigration trends by nationality in Spain
   Notes