Emotions in Transmigration: Transformation, Movement and Identity
This book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female domestic workers, female workers in the service industries, transmigrant marriages, transmigrant workers in the entertainment industry and asylum seekers and refugees who have experienced violence. Migration …
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Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Asia: Inclusion or Exclusion?
This special issue, devoted to ethnic minorities in Asia, originated with the International Symposium on the Ethnic Minorities in Asia: Subjects or Citizens, held at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. As one of the most ethnically-diverse regions in the world, Asia is the site of large indigenous minority populations as well as non-indigenious minorities through ever …
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Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA
From Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres on the Indian subcontinent, Indian popular cinema has travelled globally for nearly a century, culminating in the Bollywood-inspired, Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. The volume brings together perspectives on Indian popular cinema, universally known as Bollywood now, from different disciplinary and geographical locations to look afresh at national cinemas. …
WPS 178 Historical Evidence for Past Tsunamis in the Java Subduction Zone
The tectonic interface between the India-Australia plate and the Eurasian plate has been shown to be one of the world’s most dangerous in its Sumatra-Andaman section, by research subsequent to the 9.2 earthquake and horrific tsunami of 26 December 2004. No comparable research has been conducted on the south coast of Java, the most densely-populated …
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WPS 177 Tourist Utopias: Las Vegas, Dubai, Macau
This paper adopts a comparative approach to analyze an emergent urban form – the tourist utopia – by focusing on the paradigmatic examples of Las Vegas, Dubai, and Macau. Though culturally, historically, and geographically distinct, these “post-world cities” of neoliberal capitalism share a set of common characteristics. These characteristics include their respective status as “spaces of …
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WPS 176 Loose Threads: The Translocal Making of Public Space Policy in Hanoi
This paper analyzes the recent developments in public space policy in the city of Hanoi, Vietnam. It has three aims. The first is to look at a potentially progressive urban policy in contrast to most work on ‘policies in motion’ that has primarily been concerned with neoliberal policies. The second is to put the process …
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WPS 175 Lawyers, Not Law? A Taxonomy of the Legal Profession in China
This brief paper makes two arguments about studying the legal system in China. First, it argues that the development of the Chinese legal system may be understood most effectively by studying legal practitioners rather than laws, legal structures such as courts, or legal processes. Second, the paper attempts to develop a taxonomy of legal practitioners, …
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The Future of Asian Feminisms: Confronting Fundamentalisms, Conflict and Neoliberalism
This book on the future of Asian feminism, confronting fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism is a critical contribution to the rising voices of Asian women’s studies scholars and activists. It is based on the ongoing research and advocacy work of the Kartini Asia Network, founded in 2003 in Manila. The five overlapping themes of the network …
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Autonomy and Armed Separatism in South and Southeast Asia
Armed Separatist insurgencies have created a real dilemma for many national governments of how much freedom to grant aggrieved minorities with out releasing territorial sovereignty over the nation-state. This book examines different approaches that have been taken by seven states in South and Southeast Asia to try and resolve this dilemma through various offers of …
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