ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the development of migrant labour regimes in four countries in East Asia: Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. The chapter highlights the characteristics of migrant labour regimes in these receiving countries with reference to each other, and identifies the international and domestic factors influencing migrant labour policies at the time when these policies were designed and when the paradigms of control were shifted. This chapter documents the techniques of control Taiwan. It draws from the migration scholarship inspired by Foucault's concepts of governmentality and biopower to analyse these techniques. The chapter discusses two techniques of control: governance at a distance and discipline of body and sexuality. It demonstrates even under the same model of the developmental state, the civil societies in East Asian states have different degrees of influences in policy-making and in shaping the public perceptions towards migrant populations.
