International Journal of Social Welfare – Special Issue: Family Policies and Care Regimes in Asia (Vol. 30, Issue 4)
This special issue aims to explore the fast-changing and complex interplay between family, welfare regimes and the state in contemporary Asia through the lens of family policy. The nine papers in this special issue show how policies affect the functioning of the family system and the well-being of family members and advance our understanding of …
Chinese Universities in the National Innovation System Academic Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem
This book closely examines how universities and higher educational institutions have come to occupy a very significant position in the Chinese national Iinnovation system (NIS) in the last two decades. It looks at the growth, structure and current status of higher education in China and discusses how these world-class institutions are intimately intertwined with the …
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim “frontier peasants,” “savage mountaineers,” and Christian “ethnic minorities,” suspecting them to be disloyal subjects, spies, and traitors. In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of these people to secure shifting land, …
Tamils, Social Capital and Educational Marginalization in Singapore: Labouring to Learn
Labouring to Learn examines academic mobility pathways among ethnic minority Tamil youths in public secondary schools and vocational institutions in Singapore. This book qualitatively examines the interactive effects of race and class on the educational performance of these youths through the lens of social capital. Despite their numerical majoritarian position within the Indian population in Singapore, …
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The Forests for the Palms: Essays on the Politics of Haze and the Environment in Southeast Asia
Transboundary haze has been a recurring problem in the Southeast Asian region since at least 1982. Why does this toxic form of air pollution still persist? Helena Varkkey, a Malaysian political scientist, has been studying this multifaceted problem for more than fifteen years. This book provides an ideal collection for those who want a clear …
Youth Politics in Urban Asia
Youth Politics in Urban Asia examines how young people’s political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in a myriad of tangible and intangible ways. The book explores the ways in which urban development and urban governance in …
Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins
This fascinating study explores the daily lives, constraints and social worlds of children born in the slums of Bangkok. It examines how slum children define themselves – and are defined by others – in relation to a range of governing technologies, state and non-state actors, and broad cultural politics. It does so by interrogating the …
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