Decent Wages for Decent Work in Asia: Addressing the Temporality-Precarity Nexus in South–South Migration

International migration between countries of the Global South has increased substantially in recent decades: not only are South–South migration flows now more voluminous than South–North or North–North equivalents, but these gaps are also widening.¹ The majority of South–South migration takes place within Asia and involves the movement of so-called low-skilled workers to meet demand for labor in low-wage sectors.² In this context, labor mobility is largely a response to uneven development: the spatial expression of inequality arising from the restratification of global labor markets within the capitalist world system (see Penelope Ciancanelli in this volume). On