Irregular migrants and informal institutions : how do their interactions with formal institutions affect policy effectiveness?
This paper aims to analyze the different types of informal institutions in Malaysia and how they contributed to the survival of irregular migrant workers. By studying the interactions between formal and informal institutions, we are able to learn how Malaysia’s immigration policy effectiveness is...
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| author | Low, Choon Chyuan |
| author2 | Chen Chung-An |
| author_facet | Chen Chung-An Low, Choon Chyuan |
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| description | This paper aims to analyze the different types of informal institutions in Malaysia and
how they contributed to the survival of irregular migrant workers. By studying the
interactions between formal and informal institutions, we are able to learn how Malaysia’s
immigration policy effectiveness is being affected by informal institutions. The typology
invented by Helmke and Levitsky had identified four types of interactions between formal
and informal institutions: complementary, accommodating, substitutive and competing
interactions. By using the typology to guide this research, I interviewed irregular migrants,
agents, employers and non-governmental organizations and conducted ethnographic
observations in several migrant communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Through the
interviews and observations, I found that some informal institutions enhanced immigration
policy effectiveness; some informal institutions substitute for the policy gaps left by the
formal institutions; some violate the policy objectives without violating laws and some
challenge the state’s capacity to govern the society. This paper provides several policy
recommendations on interactions with different informal institutions. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/697952019-12-10T13:52:03Z Irregular migrants and informal institutions : how do their interactions with formal institutions affect policy effectiveness? Low, Choon Chyuan Chen Chung-An School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences This paper aims to analyze the different types of informal institutions in Malaysia and how they contributed to the survival of irregular migrant workers. By studying the interactions between formal and informal institutions, we are able to learn how Malaysia’s immigration policy effectiveness is being affected by informal institutions. The typology invented by Helmke and Levitsky had identified four types of interactions between formal and informal institutions: complementary, accommodating, substitutive and competing interactions. By using the typology to guide this research, I interviewed irregular migrants, agents, employers and non-governmental organizations and conducted ethnographic observations in several migrant communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Through the interviews and observations, I found that some informal institutions enhanced immigration policy effectiveness; some informal institutions substitute for the policy gaps left by the formal institutions; some violate the policy objectives without violating laws and some challenge the state’s capacity to govern the society. This paper provides several policy recommendations on interactions with different informal institutions. Bachelor of Arts 2017-03-28T01:59:37Z 2017-03-28T01:59:37Z 2017 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69795 en Nanyang Technological University 31 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences Low, Choon Chyuan Irregular migrants and informal institutions : how do their interactions with formal institutions affect policy effectiveness? |
| title | Irregular migrants and informal institutions : how do their interactions with formal institutions affect policy effectiveness? |
| title_full | Irregular migrants and informal institutions : how do their interactions with formal institutions affect policy effectiveness? |
| title_fullStr | Irregular migrants and informal institutions : how do their interactions with formal institutions affect policy effectiveness? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Irregular migrants and informal institutions : how do their interactions with formal institutions affect policy effectiveness? |
| title_short | Irregular migrants and informal institutions : how do their interactions with formal institutions affect policy effectiveness? |
| title_sort | irregular migrants and informal institutions how do their interactions with formal institutions affect policy effectiveness |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences |
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