WPS 98 Interethnic Relations and Shared Cultural Idioms: A Case Study of the Xiu Gu Gu Festival in Mainland China and Overseas

By using distinct epistemological frameworks, the instrumentalist, transactionalist and constructionist theories of ethnicity emphasize the analysis of inter-group relations. They neglect however the conflation of ideas and values structuring these relations, and notably the idioms of shared cultural meanings which underlie the cooperation and/or competition between interacting groups.  The present paper explores this kind of …

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WPS 97 Adjusting to Globalization: Japan and the Mobility of Asian Technical Talent

The purpose of this paper is to understand the transition that Japan must make to regain its global economic competitiveness. It examines the significance of foreign technical talent to the Japanese high technology sector, specifically, the information and communications technology (ICT) industry.  Japan is the second largest ICT market in the world. And since ICT services such …

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Population, Space and Place- Special Issue: Migration and the ‘Left-behind’ in Asia Vol. 13 No. 3

Population, Space and Place aims to be the leading English-language research journal in the field of geographical population studies. It intends to: Inform population researchers of the best theoretical and empirical research on topics related to population, space and place Promote and further enhance the international standing of population research through the exchange of views on …

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Population Review- Special Issue: Population Changes and Violent Conflicts in Southeast Asia Vol. 45 No. 1

As is well known in all demographic text books, population dynamics is attributed to changes in fertility, mortality, and migration. The change in fertility will immediately change the number of the young population, particularly those below five years old. Change in mortality can affect any age group of the population. In developing countries, change in …

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Philippine Studies- Special Issue: Global Householding and Migration in Pacific Asia Vol. 55 No. 2

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas. It believes the past is illuminated by historians as well as scholars from other disciplines; at the same time, it prefers ethnographic approaches …

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Journal of Real Estate Fiance and Economics- Special Issue: NUS-HKU Symposium on Real Estate Research Vol. 34 No. 3

Recent times have seen an expansion of theoretical and empirical research on real estate using the paradigms and methodologies of finance and economics. Examples of this research include the working and structure of markets, the role of various institutional arrangements, the attention given mortgages and asset securitization, risk management and valuation, and public policy and …

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Asia-Pacific Population Journal- Special Issue: Growing Old in Asia: Implications and Challenges Vol. 21 No. 3

This paper serves as an introductory paper to the four papers published in this special issue of the Asia-Pacific Population Journal (APPJ) on “Growing Old in Asia: Declining Labour Supply, Living Arrangements and Active Ageing”. Population ageing is expected to result in an ageing workforce and in a significant slow-down in the growth of the …

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Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Southeast Asian Cinema Vol. 8 No. 2

Southeast Asian films have gained international attention despite the 1997 Asian regional financial crisis and the supposed demise of the commercial film industries (Philippines) andstudio systems (post-Suharto Indonesia). From Thailand, avant-garde and Western-trained filmmakers such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul have won accolades at Cannes in 2005 with Tropical Malady, while their more commercial counterparts have also made waves …

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Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge

Connecting critical issues of state sovereignty with empirical concerns, Borderscapes interrogates the limits of political space. The essays in this volume analyze everyday procedures, such as the classifying of migrants and refugees, security in European and American detention centers, and the DNA sampling of migrants in Thailand, showing the border as a moral construct rich …

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