Labour Crossings: Brokering Skilled Migrants from Vietnam to Japan

This book advances scholarship on the infrastructural turn in migration studies by foregrounding the underexplored role of migration brokers from receiving countries and catering to foreign professionals.While existing research has predominantly focused on brokerage in migrants' countries of origin, this monograph conceptualises migration brokerage in the host society as a key institutional infrastructure shaping contemporary cross-border labour markets.It conceptually contributes by integrating insights from economic sociology and international migration studies, introducing a transnational lens into the market-making framework. Drawing on qualitative data from ethnographic fieldwork, the book examines the role of brokers not only in facilitating and regulating workers’ mobility, but also in actively “making” an emerging cross-border labour market between Japan and Vietnam.It also provides a nuanced analysis of the experiences of skilled Vietnamese migrants as they navigate entry into