Migrant workers and ASEAN: a two level state and regional analysis

ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has made slow progress in defining a regional policy for the protection of migrant workers.

This book examines the normative structures within the institutions at play at both state and regional level of ASEAN, which influence the making of a migrant workers protection policy.

The author puts forward a novel alternative policy analysis tool - the Two Level State and Regional Analysis - that enables satisfactory explanation for policy making cases, whereby normative institutional structures are involved and social policies are considered.

The author argues that that the formulation of a working coherent migrant workers protection policy has not been achieved because of the presence of normative institutional structures with ideas unsupportive to the protection of migrant workers, which results in a slow institutionalisation process.