This special issue on ‘Transnational mobilities for care: rethinking the dynamics of care in Asia’ examines the intersections between transnational mobilities for care and the practices of care through the lens of transnational migration for work and marriage. In this editorial introduction, we highlight three key themes explored by the articles that make up the …
The tsunami that struck a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 evoked international sympathy on a scale beyond any previous natural disaster. The international relief effort broke all records both in scale and diversity, with seven billion U.S. dollars donated from all over the world through public and private agencies for …
From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh Read More »
Rapid technological, economic, social and cultural changes are transforming the idea of “Asian space.” With the shift to a global economy and an urban population explosion, Asian cities have become a mainstay of progress, national pride, identity, and positioning on the global stage. The extraordinary pace and intensity of the changes have created a situation …
Future Asian Space: Projecting the Urban Space of New East Asia Read More »
In this paper the “sensuous conduct” of some Javanese who live in an urban neighbourhood (kampung) located in the central Javanese city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia is described. This Javanese “sensuous conduct,” engaged within a social milieu, is examined as it is expressed in music making, in particular the quintessential country music of Indonesia, kroncong. Kroncong’s rusticity and …
WPS 180 Deep Sound, Country Feeling: Kroncong Music in a Javanese Neighbourhood Read More »
Abdoumaliq Simone characterizes a central feature of “city-ness” as marked by “crossroads”, viz., where people “take the opportunity to change each other around by virtue of being in that space, getting rid of the familiar ways of and plans for doing things and finding new possibilities by virtue of whatever is gathered there”. This paper …
WPS 179 Actually Existing Religious Pluralism in Kuala Lumpur Read More »
This special issue takes the migrant broker as a starting point for investigating contemporary regimes of transnational migration across Asia. The articles, which span large parts of Asia—including China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, as well as New Zealand—show that marriage migration, student migration, and variousforms of unskilled labour migration, including predominantly …
Pacific Affairs – Special Issue: Opening the Black Box of Migration (Vol. 85 No. 1) Read More »
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 …
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 …
Emotions in Transmigration: Transformation, Movement and Identity Read More »
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 …
Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Asia: Inclusion or Exclusion? Read More »
