Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society

Immigrant Japan?  Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want to come to Japan? Where do immigrants with various resources and demographic profiles fit in the economic landscape? How …

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The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science – Special Issue: Young People in Uncertain Labor Markets: International Evidence (Vol. 688, Issue 1)

A crisis for youth labor market conditions has been building globally for more than two decades, reflected in the persistently high rates of youth unemployment around the world, which is about three times as high as that for adults. About one in five young people are not in education, employment, or training, and a large …

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Transnational Divorce: Understanding intimacies and inequalities from Singapore

This book explores the transnational aspects of divorce experiences. Transnational Divorce uncovers the stories of four main groups of transnational divorcees at the field site of Singapore, including low-income marriage migrant women from less wealthy countries, low-income citizen men, middle-class living apart together divorced parents and overseas-based citizen divorced mothers. Employing transnational, intersectional feminist perspectives, …

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Urban Studies – Special Issue: Environmental Governance for Urban Resilience in the Asia-Pacific (Vol. 57, Issue 7)

For the first time in 2019, the Asia-Pacific became a majority urban region. The unprecedented pace and magnitude of urbanisation across Asia and the Pacific has exposed tens of millions of urban residents to heightened risks and vulnerabilities associated with the expanding ecological footprint of urban energy, food and water demands and the increasingly severe …

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Environment and History – Special Issue: Disasters and the Making of Asian History (Vol. 26, Issue 1)

Environmental historians have often been drawn to disasters. They have unearthed the often-forgotten stories of erupting volcanoes, raging rivers and rainless skies, and in so doing have reminded their colleagues from more anthropocentric disciplines that the societies, economies and cultures they study are part of broader physical systems. In addition to highlighting the agency of …

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Voices from the Underworld: Chinese Hell Deity Worship in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia (Alternative Sinology)

In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye of …

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Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious

In Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial metropolis. Drawing on historical archives, newspapers, oral histories, and interviews with musicians, critics, students, and instrument makers as well …

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Food, Culture & Society – Special Issue: Transecting Healthy and Sustainable Food in Asia-Pacific (Vol. 23, Issue 2)

This special issue presents a series of papers selected from those presented at a workshop held July 30 – August 1, 2018 at Yale-NUS College and the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. We start from the assumption that changes in Asia Pacific foodways cannot be understood as simply “diffusion from the …

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies – The Singapore Bicentennial Issue, 1819-2019 (Vol. 50, No. 4)

In February 2018, a group of scholars, educators, librarians, heritage practitioners, and graduate students gathered for a one-and-a-half-day workshop to discuss the history and historiography of Singapore. Jointly sponsored by the Department of History (National University of Singapore) and the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JSEAS), the participants were asked to think about the epistemological …

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