WPS 266 The YMCA’s “Moral Empire”, Public Health, and Masculinity in Interwar East and Southeast Asia: China, the Philippines, and Japan

This paper addresses the North American YMCA’s transnational “moral empire” in East and Southeast Asia, focusing on the topics of public health, fitness, and masculinity. The main period covered are the 1920s, when the YMCA had already established an institutional network in China, the Philippines, and Japan. I analyze how the growing scientificity of physical …

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The Mission of Development: Religion and Techno-Politics in Asia

The Mission of Development interrogates the complex relationships between Christian mission and international development in Asia from the 19th century to the new millennium. Through historically and ethnographically grounded case studies, contributors examine how missionaries have adapted to and shaped the age of development and processes of ‘technocratisation’, as well as how mission and development have …

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Social & Legal Studies – Special Issue: Governing Migration from the Margins (Vol. 27 No. 2)

The papers in this collection offer empirical cases that, both historically and geographically, demonstrate the fluxes in the role of borders, legal framework and structures of surveillance in upholding state control over territory and human mobility (cf. Roy, this issue). The shrinking spaces of asylum around the world are now well-documented (e.g. Anderson, 2013; Hyndman …

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Population, Space and Place – Special Section: Situated Agency in the Context of Research on Children, Migration, and Family in Asia (Vol. 25, Issue 3)

Given far less attention than adult members in the burgeoning migration scholarship, children (and their parents) are brought to the foreground in this themed section as agentic subjects whose lives are linked to and impacted by migration processes operating across borders. In tandem with this focus, this special‐themed section situates the agency of children and …

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Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-based Organisations: A Case from the African Migration Route

Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) interact with the public sphere, showing how faith-based actors are themselves shaped by wider processes and global forces such as globalisation, migration, foreign policy and neoliberal markets. Focusing on a case study of …

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Family and Population Change in Singapore: A Unique Case in the Global Family Changes

This book depicts the evolution of Singapore’s family and population landscape in the last half a century, the related public policies, and future challenges. Since the country’s independent in 1965, family and population policies have been an integral part of its national building developmental strategies. The chapters discuss the changes in population compositions, family structures, …

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WPS 265 Spectacular Pasts: Visualising History through Material Representations in Hong Kong

Since being placed under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1997, Hong Kong has developed a strong interest in remembering its past. But how Hong Kong history is to be articulated and represented in the contemporary city is a subject of contestation between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government …

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Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility

Typically, scholars approach migrants’ religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin. This ethnographic anthology challenges that position by reframing the religious experiences of migrants as a transformative force capable of refashioning narratives of displacement into journeys of spiritual awakening and missionary calling. These essays explore migrants’ …

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