Journal of Gender, Work Organization – Special Issue: Close Encounters: Migrant Bodies, Workplace and Intimate Labour in Asia (Vol 29, Issue 3)

Intimate labor, “the work of tending to the sexual, bodily, health, hygiene and care needs of individuals” (Parreñas et al., 2016, p. 2), is an emergent concept in social research. Differentiated from impersonal service delivery and other forms of social relations of the workplace, intimate labor involves the provision of individualized attention, the sharing of …

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Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies – Special Issue: Gender, Migration and Digital Communication in Asia (Volume 20, Issue 2)

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 …

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Religion – Special Issue: Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Presence and Distance (Vol. 52, Issue 2)

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 …

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Tween Girls’ Dressing and Young Femininity in Singapore: Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast?

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 …

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Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam

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, …

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Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels

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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Handbook on Transnationalism

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. …

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Ethnic and Racial Studies – Special Issue: Migration and New Racism: Beyond Colour and the “West” (Volume 45, Issue 4)

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 …

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Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts

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 …

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