Labour migration has been on the agenda of many countries around the globe, and governments of both sending and receiving countries have made attempts to develop regulatory mechanisms to deal with the phenomenon. This multidisciplinary book opens the debate on the global politics of labour migration by proposing a re-assessment of the interaction between states regarding labour migration.

Introduction; I: Uncertain Borders, Empty Control Claims: Labour Migration Regimes with Weak Control Claims; 1: When Borders Fail: 'Illegal', Invisible Labour Migration and Basotho Domestic Workers in South Africa; 2: (In)hospitable Border Zones: Situating Bolivian Migrants' Presence at Brazilian Crossroads; 3: Labour Migration Regulation in Malaysia: A Policy of High Numbers and Low Rights; 4: Examining Labour Migration Regimes in East Asia: Appearance and Technique of Control in Taiwan *; 5: Implications for Policy Discourse: The Influx of Zimbabwean Migrants into South Africa; II: The Appearance of Control: Examining Labour Migration Regimes with High Control Claims; 6: 'Advantage Canada' and the Contradictions of (Im)migration Control; 7: Competing Interests in the Europeanization of Labour Migration Rules; 8: Australia and Labour Migration; 9: The 'Outside-In' -An Overview of Japanese Immigration Policy from the Perspective of International Relations 1; III: Equivocal Claims: Examining Labour Migration Regimes with Ambivalent Control Claims; 10: Equivocal Claims? Ambivalent Controls? Labour Migration Regimes in the European Union; 11: Nationality: An Alternative Control Mechanism in an Area of Free Movement?; 12: Migration Flows and Security in North America; 13: Equivocal Claims: Examining Labour Migration Regimes with Ambivalent Control Claims - Central Asian States' Policies on Migration Control; 14: Reflections on Immigration Controls and Free Movement in Europe