Immigration Agents in Bahrain: An Exploration of the Immigration Policy Nexus
Immigration Agents in Bahrain: An Exploration of the Immigration Policy Nexus

Author(s): Simeon S. Magliveras
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: agency; immigration; policy; P-policy nexus; Philippines; Bahrain;
Summary/Abstract: This chapter explores the complex policy nexus, as described in the introduction to this book, to explain how transnational agents and immigration policy coexist. The study examines the actions of these various actors by scrutinizing the motivations of such agents who on the surface may appear to be motivated simply out of hopelessness or greed. Their actions are not so straight forward. The chapter focuses on a Filipina guest worker and her employer as agents in Bahrain within a complex immigration policy nexus. This work more generally illustrates that subjects of immigration policy are not are not merely moveable pawns of powerful states or mere units of production at the will of their employers. This chapter suggests that in actuality, they are agents who effect and are affected but their environments who make active choices within the system to reach their objectives as transnationals. This chapter finally suggests that immigration policy nexus and actions of the actors affect how policy becomes an agent of its own consequence.

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