The corridor linking Indonesia with Malaysia is particularly rife with transborder mobility, including large-scale labour migration. While irregularity has long been a major feature of these flows, much of the movement now falls under the migration regimes adopted by Malaysia and Indonesia. Long-established casual migration flows collide with recently codified norms and, as a result, oscillate between regularity and irregularity. This paper explores the following questions: How does the regulatory state view and handle undocumented migrants? How does it interact with established social networks that have facilitated irregular labour migration? Particular attention is given to the distinction between the categories of deportable criminals and victims deserving protection, as ascribed by state actors to certain groups of migrants. Based on interviews with twelve deported Florenese migrant workers, the paper discusses how the Indonesian-Malaysian migration regime seeks to shape mobility. It argues that shifting categorisations reflect political imperatives more than the migrants’ needs that prompt them to migrate in the first place.

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像国家一样看待移民：非正规印尼移民工人被马来西亚驱逐出境的案例

连接印度尼西亚和马来西亚的走廊特别是跨境流动，包括大规模劳务移民。长期以来，非法行为一直是这些流动的主要特征，但现在，大多数流动都属于马来西亚和印度尼西亚采用的移民制度。长期存在的临时移民潮与最近制定的规范相冲突，结果，在正常和不规律之间波动。本文探讨了以下问题：监管国家如何看待和处理无证移民？它如何与促进非正规劳动力迁移的已建立社会网络互动？特别要注意的是，国家行为者将某些特定群体的移民归为流放罪犯和应得到保护的受害者之间的区别。在对十二名被遣返的佛罗伦萨移民工人进行采访的基础上，本文讨论了印尼－马来西亚移民制度如何试图塑造流动性。它认为，转变类别反映的是政治要务，而不是首先促使他们迁移的移民需求。