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Migration, Unequal Citizens, and Critical Legal Studies<\/h1>\n

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This interdisciplinary research cluster belongs to the MOE SPROUT 2.0 “Conflict, Justice, Decolonization 2.0: Asia in Transition in the 21st Century<\/a><\/span>“, operated by the International Center for Cultural Studies<\/a><\/span>, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.<\/p>\n

According to the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the total number of international migrants had amounted to 272 million in mid-2019, up from 173 million in 2000. Compared to 70 million international migrants in 1960, the figure has increased by 200 million. Among the total number of international migrants, about 100 million international migrants were from Asia, and 83 million were migrating within Asia. Most countries in Asia still practice exclusionary politics of citizenship. The migrant workers and stateless persons suffer severe discrimination and even inhuman treatment because of their non-citizen status.<\/p>\n

The first five-year ICCS project, “Unequal Citizens and Legal Reform in the Inter-Asian Context<\/a><\/span>” (2018-2022), has discussed the theme of \u201cConflict, Justice, and Decolonization\u201d to understand the crux of the problem from the scene of social conflict from the perspective of transnational migration and labor mobility. Our shared concerns include the different forms of social conflict and inequality in third-world countries within the global context. We paid particular attention to the issues of refugees, mobile laborers, stateless persons, and human trafficking under mass migration. We discussed the formation of severely excluded discrimination, oppression, and violence as expressed in laws and institutions in different societies. However, the international labor migration under globalization constantly faces exploitation, forced labor, and human trafficking, particularly in Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n

The second five-year project (2023-2027) will focus on analyzing the forced labor risks in the global supply chain and addressing effective practices for eliminating forced labor, including law enforcement strategy. Our project will continue to deepen the transnational cooperation with research institutions, research scholars, and non-governmental organizations to develop more significant contributions to labor rights and access to justice for migrant workers, stateless populations, and undocumented workers. We orient our project toward a critical legal study in terms of empirical cases and emancipatory articulation of particular fundamental concepts, including citizenship.<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>Research Agenda<\/span><\/h1>\n

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  • Precarious conditions of mobile laborer and refugees and critical legal issues<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Migrant labor rights, fishers’ labor rights at sea, Women migrant workers, statelessness and refugee issues, forced labor, human trafficking, and transnational organized crime, human rights issues, grey zones in domestic and the international law<\/p>\n

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    • Logistics and infrastructure<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Zoning technology, labor supply chain, port cities, tax haven, offshore financial centers, Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Export Processing Zones (EPZs), Flag of Convenience (FOC)<\/p>\n

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      • Migrants’ space-making capacity and artistic community<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Migrants’ right to belong, the right to the city, Migrant\u2019s music communities<\/p>\n

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        • Re-envisioning of the concept and practice of \u201ccitizenship\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Concept of co-citizenship, democratizing the practice of citizenship, re-thinking the question of the civilizing process suggested by \u00c9tienne Balibar<\/p>\n

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          Specializes in geopolitics, biopolitics, border politics, internal coloniality, unequal citizens, and epistemic\/artistic decolonization.<\/span><\/p>\n

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          Specializes on labor law, labor relations, and civil law. <\/span>Her work combines legal analysis and comparative research in the theories of labor law, policy, and legal practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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          Chapters written by our researchers Bonny Ling, Mei-Ling Pan, and Dolma Tsering<\/p>\n

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          South Atlantic Quarterly 120:3 (July 2021)<\/p>\n

          Edited by Joyce C.H. Liu and Brett Neilson<\/p>\n

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          This is an SME-friendly policy guide in Chinese (traditional) on the International Labour Organization Indicators of Forced Labour. It covers all the indicators and aims to improve SME awareness on international standards concerning these indicators in Taiwan. The guide is a source of authoritative reference materials of continuous learning on forced labour risks in the Taiwanese supply chain. While the guidebook specifically addresses the SMEs, the materials on international standards and Taiwan-specific analyses are relevant for all stakeholders.<\/p>\n

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          This channel aims to explain the 11 indicators for identifying forced labor published by the International Labor Organization (ILO). These 11 indicators are based on the Forced Labor Convention (C29) and derived from the theoretical and practical experience of ILO\u2019s Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labour (SAP-FL).<\/p>\n

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          T<\/span>ransit A<\/span>sia R<\/span>esearch N<\/span>etwork<\/h1>\n

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