In recent decades, the role of digital communication in the lives of migrants in Asia has greatly expanded, becoming integral to the decision to migrate, earning a living, and the practice of keeping in touch with left-behind families and friends. The papers in this Special Issue foreground how gender structures and practices within migrant households …
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, various wide-reaching regulations were implemented to mitigate the virality of disaster throughout the world. The articles in this collection examine how COVID era regulations, and anxieties of infection, have intervened in religious lives and practices. For those who hold religious or spiritual commitments, a fulfilling experience requires, at …
This book provides an insight into girls’ cultural identities and young femininities through an understanding of tween girls’ dressing in Singapore. The book adopts a girl-centred approach to shed light on the narratives and experiences of young Singaporean girls that have often been overlooked. It draws on the conversations with young Singaporean girls aged 8 …
Tween Girls’ Dressing and Young Femininity in Singapore: Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast? Read More »
In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate narratives of conflict and memory. While the visual history of the Vietnam War has been dominated by American documentaries and war photography, Phu turns to photographs circulated by the Vietnamese themselves, …
Sri Lanka’s apparel sector holds an enviable place in the imaginary of its competitors for having a niche position amongst global retailers, given its claims of producing ‘garments without guilt’. Exploitative labour conditions are not part of the industry’s portfolio – ethicality, eco-friendly production and unblemished conditions of work are. Sri Lanka’s transition away from …
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Mr Lee Kuan Yew once famously said “when I project myself forward 100 years for Singapore, I cannot tell you that it will exist.” As a small island city-state in what has been hitherto a turbulent region, the fundamental question of “Can Singapore Survive?” will remain an eternal dilemma for Singapore. This is why this …
Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have altered how we think about social life from the family to the nation-state, whilst also challenging the predominance of methodologically nationalist analyses. …
Studies of racism against migrants have recently attempted to move away from the presumed dichotomy between whites and “Others”, yet the focus is still on white people racialising others: whether Black, Asian or Muslim. Attending only to white versus Others homogenizes select groups of non-whites including Asians. Racialization and racism by Asians and among Asians …
Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts (Routledge, 2021), edited by Assistant Professor Zheng Mu (NUS CFPR and Sociology) and Professor Jean Wei-Jun Yeung (NUS CFPR and Sociology) and originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, analyses how Asian migrants adapt and assimilate into their host societies, and how this assimilation …
This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One: The End of the Era of Western Domination. The major strategic error that the West is …
