The processes of migration and health are inextricably linked in complex ways, with migration impacting on the mental and physical health of individuals and communities. Health itself can be a motivation for moving or a reason for staying, and migration can have implications on the halth of those who move, those who are left bhind …
In a period of rapid globalisation, sociologists need urgently to reconsider the national assumptions of sociology. Cosmopolitanism is a promising set of values and presuppositions that are useful for rethinking and designing sociology to meet the challenge of a global social system. To comprehend global processes, the existing assumptions about national societies in mainstream sociology …
WPS 39 Classical Sociology: On Cosmopolitanism, Critical Recognition Theory and Islam Read More »
Although the proportions remain relatively small compared to its neighboring countries, statistical trends indicate that the incidence of postponed marriages in Indonesia is growing, especially among urban people. Utilizing the 2000 Indonesian census data and in-depth interviews with 35 never-married women aged 30 years and over, this study aims to describe the patterns and gender …
The migration of people within and beyond Asia no longer takes the form of permanent ruptures, uprooting, and resettlement. Today, such movement is more likely to be transient and complex, ridden with disruptions and detours, and based on translocal interconnections between places and multiple chains of movement. Written from various disciplinary perspectives, this collection of …
Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels Read More »
Conflicting parties worldwide increasingly use the internet in a strategic way. Conflicts carried out on a local level thus achieve a new dimension: This new kind of medialisation results in their expansion into global cyberspace. Based on ethnographic research on the online activities of Christian and Muslim actors in the Moluccan conflict (1999-2002) this study …
Cyberidentities at War: Der Molukkenkonflikt im Internet Read More »
The name Champa refers to the region along the central and southern Vietnamese coast in which the major population group, identifiable from the 5th century onward by their own architectural and epigraphic remains, was the linguistically Austronesian Cham. The Cham settled mainly in river port deltas, and developed a Hindu and Buddhist religious culture exemplified …
Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research, and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population studies …
Once an occupation traditionally associated with poor rural women who migrated to cities in search of work, paid domestic work is now a transnational occupational niche for millions of women from Asia’s less well-off countries-including the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, Sri Lanka, and India-who embark on sojourns to the richer countries of the world-such as Singapore, …
The study of Cambodian religion has long been hampered by a lack of easily accessible scholarship. This impressive new work by Ian Harris thus fills a major gap and offers English-language scholars a booklength, up-to-date treatment of the religious aspects of Cambodian culture. Beginning with a coherent history of the presence of religion in the country …
Over the last ten years citizenship has become an area of interdisciplinary research and teaching in its own right. This book highlights that globalization poses new challenges for established understandings and practices of citizenship, and that intellectual work is required to fashion models of citizenship better suited to present problems and realities. In particular, this …
Challenging Citizenship: Group Membership and Cultural Identity in a Global Age Read More »
