Abstract
ABSTRACT The Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme, one of the world’s most popular retirement and lifestyle migration programme throughout the 2010s, has been at the receiving end of a series of disruptions that dovetailed the COVID-19 pandemic and Malaysia’s regime change and political crisis during 2018–2022. Drawing from interviews with aspiring migrants, current migrants, and members of the MM2H migration infrastructure, this article examines how various stakeholder groups respond to, defend, challenge and contest the programme’s impending infrastructural breakdown and transformation. It interrogates the discursive strategies used by each group to advance their positions and concerns in their attempts to “rescue” the MM2H migration infrastructure and its existing logics of operation. It advances the concept of “crisis infrastructuring” to capture the repair work and the exploration of alternatives undertaken by constitutive actors when an established migration infrastructure is perceived to be under threat – that is, in crisis. It argues that it is the (perceived) moment of crisis that facilitated infrastructuring efforts in an unprecedented and swift manner.
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