Special Issue: The Politics of Sanitization: Pandemic Crisis, Migration and Development in Asia-Pacific

Guest Editors: Yuk Wah Chan and Pei-Chia Lan

Special issue introduction

The politics of sanitization: Pandemic crisis, migration and development in Asia-Pacific

Special issue articles

Shifting borders and migrant workers’ im/mobility: The case of Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sanitizing the national body: COVID-19 and the revival of Japan’s “Closed Country” strategy

Sanitized boundaries, sanitized homes: COVID-19 and the sporadic hyper-precarity of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong

Infection, temporality and inequality: Sanitizing foreign bodies and protecting public health in Taiwan

Research note

New Zealand border restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers

Concluding essay

Rethinking the migration-development nexus in the post-COVID-19 era

Book reviews

Women migrants in Southern China and Taiwan: Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions

Ethnic dissent and empowerment: Economic migration between Vietnam and Malaysia

Coming home to a foreign country: Xiamen and returned overseas Chinese, 1843–1938