In 2019, the United Nations (UN) promulgated the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration which charts the UN's global migration policy strategy, affording central importance to safety in migration. This ascendant focus on safe migration is echoed in a range of national and regional policy initiatives. Despite the policy enthusiasm for safe migration, to date, there is a dearth of critical scholarly attention to this policy shift. This paper builds on 7 years of ethnographic research on safe migration interventions in mainland Southeast Asia. Centring on the Mekong region, this paper examines two interlocking effects of safe migration policy instrumentalisation. On the one hand, safe migration discourse' spatio‐temporal underpinnings dispositions programmes to gravitate towards policy abstractions. Yet, in practice, safe migration interventions heavily depend on informal constellations of sociality, where migrants become re‐embedded as both objects and instruments of policy.

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安全移民：重新嵌入为预期的、去领土的治理

2019年，联合国（UN）颁布了安全、有序和正常移民全球契约该文件描绘了联合国的全球移民政策战略，对移民安全给予了核心重视。对安全移民的日益关注在一系列国家和地区政策举措中得到了呼应。尽管安全移民的政策热情高涨，但迄今为止，学术界对这一政策转变缺乏批判性的关注。本文建立在对东南亚大陆安全移民干预措施长达 7 年的人种学研究的基础上。本文以湄公河地区为中心，探讨了安全移民政策工具化的两个连锁效应。一方面，安全移民话语的时空基础使计划倾向于政策抽象。然而，在实践中，安全移民干预在很大程度上依赖于非正式的社会体系，移民重新成为政策的对象和工具。