Migration, trafficking and smuggling are different issues but
inter-related. Migration may take place through regular or irregular
channels and could be freely chosen or forced upon the migrant as a means
of survival. international migration is one of the responses to the changes
of socio-economic conditions between countries as people attempt to
improve their standard of living. Social conflicts arising front the collapse
of political systems are mostly behind the movement of people, economic
tensions originating front rebuilding global capitalism are also
contributing forced labor mobility in world scale. Transnational mobility in
Southeast Asia has been made used by syndicates involved in drag
trafficking and also hunan trafficking especially women and children. This
paper attempts to elaborate interlinks between migration, the phenomena of
undocumented labor, trafficking and politics in Southeast Asia.
