Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations

Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong and explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in gendered migration, precarious labor, and bureaucracy. Focusing on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, anthropologist Nicole Constable considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate …

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Urban Studies – Special Issue: Migrant-led Diversification and Differential Inclusion in Arrival Cities across Asia and the Pacific (Volume 59, Issue 16)

The closely related processes of migration and diversification call for greater scrutiny of how contemporary arrival cities incorporate increasingly diverse groups of newcomers through practices and processes of differential inclusion. This special issue highlights arrival cities in the Asia-Pacific region, attending to how they are being transformed by the wide-ranging temporal and spatial dimensions of migrant-driven diversification. Rather than …

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Asian Migration and New Racism: Beyond Colour and the “West”

Studies of racism against migrants have recently attempted to move away from the presumed dichotomy between “white” and “Others”, yet the focus of much research remains predominantly trained on “white” people racializing “Others”: whether Black, Asian or Muslim. Attending only to this “white”/”Other” binary homogenises select groups of non-“white” including Asians. This approach also ignores …

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Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy

What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy? While much of the critical discussion of the media in authoritarian contexts focus on state power, the emphasis on strong states tend to perpetuate misnomers about the media as mere tools of the state and sustain myths about their absolute power. Turning to the …

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Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine, 1st Edition

This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds, and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance. The chapters analyse the process of industrialization and commercialisation of Asian medicine and the ways …

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Environmental Policy and Governance – Special Issue: Transboundary Environmental Governance: Emerging Themes and Lessons from Southeast Asia (Vol. 32, Issue 4)

This special issue is concerned with the transboundary dimensions of governing common pool resources and formulating collective responses to cross-border environmental threats and crises. Our theoretical and conceptual focus is on transboundary environmental governance, understood to mean the full range of actors and institutions involved in shaping and implementing decisions about the environment across jurisdictions …

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Current Sociology – Special Issue: The Value of Children in the Global South: A Critical Engagement (Vol. 70, Issue 4)

The sociology of childhood is currently at a crossroads for developing research agendas beyond the “new” social studies of childhood of the 1980s and 1990s, which suffer from four problems: cultural relativism derived from binary conceptualisations of childhood, Northern normativity that ill-fits Southern realities, methodological issues related to the preferred child-centric and participatory research, and …

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American Behavioral Scientist – Special Issue: (Re)constructing Ageing Futures: Insights from Migration in Asia and Beyond (Vol. 66, Issue 14)

This special issue examines how older adults anticipate and manage their futures through migration. Although ageing is often associated with decline towards the end-of-life, it is still a life stage where (the lack of) planning for the future can profoundly impact the life outcomes of older adults and their caregivers. This collection illustrates different ways …

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