This mini-conference seeks to contextualize two forms of migrant vulnerability – labor exploitability and labor deportability – through comparisons among different regime types in Canada and several Asian countries. Both forms of vulnerability are rooted in neoliberal immigration policies that emphasize the benefits of labor flexibility rather than the fundamental rights of migrant workers. The neoliberal notion of labor flexibility is an integral component for making neoliberal immigration policies profitable. Exploitability of temporary migrant workers, solidified by their labor flexibility, is essential for the maximization of neoliberal market profitability. Deportability of migrant workers is equally crucial for the labor-receiving state in order to regulate and discipline the behavior of migrant workers. Thus, the vulnerabilities of labor exportability and deportability are central to the neoliberal production of docile and flexible migrant laborers. Such social production of migrant vulnerability has been well documented in the existing labor migration literature. However, the mainstream discussion of migrant vulnerability is often based on single-country analyses. Bringing a comparative aspect to migrant vulnerability will unpack the broader neoliberal immigration policy framework that normalizes migrant vulnerability, the causal linkage between regime type and migrant rights, and variation regarding the political capacity of pro-migrant civil society groups. Essentially, the mini-conference will interrogate the overarching neoliberal moral authority that normalizes migrant vulnerability, as well as the potential impact of civil society actors in addressing such vulnerability.