This paper examines how biolegitimacy and brokering are central to labor migration governing regimes in Thailand. Whereas undocumented migrants would risk deportation whilst seeking health services in the past, current policy responses favor medical treatment – as opposed to deportation – regardless of patients’ legal migrant status. Exploring how migrants’ corporal bodies give rise to new forms of policy practices and claim-making, the paper explicates how these changes have enabled a broadened operational space for aid agencies that assist labor migrants. At the same time, Continue reading → Continue reading →