Migration, trafficking and smuggling are different issues butinter-related. Migration may take place through regular or irregularchannels and could be freely chosen or forced upon the migrant as a meansof survival. international migration is one of the responses to the changesof socio-economic conditions between countries as people attempt toimprove their standard of living. Social conflicts arising front the collapseof political systems are mostly behind the movement of people, economictensions originating front rebuilding global capitalism are alsocontributing forced labor mobility in world scale. Transnational mobility inSoutheast Asia has been made used by syndicates involved in dragtrafficking and also hunan trafficking especially women and children. Thispaper attempts to elaborate interlinks between migration, the phenomena ofundocumented labor, trafficking and politics in Southeast Asia. |