Download or read book Asian Migrant Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Migrant Workers in Asia written by Nicole Constable and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of South and Southeast Asian domestic workers who migrate to other parts of Asia. These studies range from Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore, to Yemen, Israel, Jordan, and the UAE. Conceptually and methodologically, this book challenges us to move beyond established regional divides and proposes new ways of mapping inter-Asian connections. The authors view migrant workers within a wider spatial context of intersecting groups and trajectories through time. Keenly attentive to the importance of migrants of diverse nationalities who have labored in multiple regions, this book examines intimate connections and distant divides in the social lives and politics of migrant workers across time and space. Collectively, the authors propose new themes, new comparative frameworks, and new methodologies for considering vastly different degrees of social support structures and political activism, and the varied meanings of citizenship and state responsibility in sending and receiving countries. They highlight the importance of formal institutions that shape and promote migratory labor, advocacy for workers, or curtail workers rights, as well as the social identities and cultural practices and beliefs that may be linked to new inter-ethnic social and political affiliations that traverse and also transform inter-Asian spaces and pathways to mobility. This book was published as a special issue of Critical Asian Studies.
Download or read book Love Sex and Activism written by Amy SIM and published by Amy Sim. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the lives of Indonesian women employed in Hong Kong as Foreign Domestic Helpers. It tells of their lives as labour activists, leaders, religious leaders, lovers of men and women, undocumented migrants when they overstay their visas, single mothers and as wives in marriages that take place in Hong Kong. The reader will learn the inside stories of what gave them strength and the barriers they encountered to personal empowerment. I introduce the role of migrant-NGOs that assist them in Hong Kong and examine the nature of power exercised by the State and other non-State actors such as migrant-NGOs, employers and civil society that characterise their experiences in Hong Kong. Based on fifteen years of ethnographic research in Hong Kong, there are eleven chapters in this book. Chapter One begins with the effect of the Asian Financial Crisis that witnessed the systematic and exponential increase of Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong from 1,000 in 1990 to 40,000 in 2000 and 150,000 by 2011. Chapter Two provides the background of their employment in Hong Kong and their social and legal exclusions as Foreign Domestic Workers that gives context to the ensuing chapters. Chapter Three is about the rise of Indonesian women's labour activism, their participation and understanding of their own roles as activists and grassroots leaders. Chapter Four is about the rise of consciousness amongst Indonesian women migrant workers about their role as Muslims and their emergence as religious leaders for their compatriots in migration. Chapter Five presents their perspectives of power, leadership and authority as secular grassroots leaders in the Indonesian activist community in Hong Kong. Chapter Six presents Indonesian women's experiences of disempowerment in Indonesia from their discussions of a range factors including poverty, broken families, adultery, arranged marriages, son-preferences, favouritism among siblings, domestic violence in marriage, etc. and how activism in Hong Kong helped them recover. Chapter Seven is about the centrality of women's shelters and networks in Hong Kong and the nature of migrant-NGOs' role, leadership and power vis a vis grassroots migrant activists and leaders, and their supporters. Chapter Eight showcases the romantic relationships of Indonesian women migrants in Hong Kong with both local and foreign men, the problem of sexual violence, unwanted pregnancies, babies born in Hong Kong and brought home to Indonesia, those put up for adoption and Indonesian women's marriages and settlement in Hong Kong. Chapter Nine examines the stories of Indonesian women involved in same-sex relationships in Hong Kong with other Indonesian women, what these relationships mean to them and the relationship between labour migration and Indonesian women's transitory homosexual liaisons in Hong Kong. Chapter Ten is about how illegalities are created in labour migration by the nature of a range of actors including their employers, recruitment and employment agencies, by the State and its representatives and by Indonesian women who overstay their visas. It presents their experiences and perspectives as overstayers and highlights the dangers they encounter as undocumented migrants in Hong Kong. Chapter Eleven highlights further areas of research and concludes with theoretical concerns about how Indonesian women's agencies as individuals are often misread and the problems of misunderstanding agencies as generic, similar across different social groups (including women) and between individuals and institutionalised and collectivised agencies in academic work. The Author Amy Sim is a Cultural Anthropologist (PhD, HKU). She taught Anthropology, Gender, Globalisation and Migration Studies at the University of Hong Kong. Her research and publications focus on women’s transnational labour migration in East and Southeast Asia, women’s empowerment, leadership, gender issues and sexuality, and the development of NGOs for migrant workers in Hong Kong. She is an advocate of migrant women domestic workers in East and Southeast Asia for two decades. Prior to academia, she worked with communities in developing countries on issues of Sustainable Development from eco-tourism in Indonesia to income generation for women’s empowerment projects in Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. She was involved in international research, development and advocacy projects for the Governments of Canada and the United Kingdom and international NGOs.
Download or read book Asian Yearbook of International Law written by B.S. Chimni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in 1991, the Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective, under the auspices of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA). It is the first publication of its kind edited by a team of leading international law scholars from across Asia. The Yearbook provides a forum for the publication of articles in the field of international law, and other Asian international law topics, written by experts from the region and elsewhere. Its aim is twofold: to promote international law in Asia, and to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on contemporary international legal issues. Each volume of the Yearbook normally contains articles and shorter notes; a section on State practice; an overview of Asian states participation in multilateral treaties; succinct analysis of recent international legal developments in Asia; an agora section devoted to critical perspectives on international law issues; surveys of the activities of international organizations òf special relevance to Asia; and book review, bibliography and documents sections. It will be of interest to students and academics interested in international law and Asian studies.
Download or read book Security and Migration in Asia written by Melissa Curley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security and Migration in Asia explores how various forms of unregulated and illegal forms of human movement within Asia and beyond the region have come to be treated as 'security' issues, and whether and how a 'securitization' framework enables a more effective response to them. The process and theory of 'securitization' and 'desecuritization' have been developed within the international relations literature by the so-call Copenhagen school scholars, including Barry Buzan and Ole Waever among others. The topics explored in this well- presented and engaging book cover geographic areas of China, Northeast Asia, Central Asia, the Russian Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Hong Kong SAR, and includes research on: human trafficking and people smuggling financing illegal migration and links to transnational organized crime regulated and unregulated labour migration the 'securitization' of illegal migration in sending, transit and receiving countries. This book provides compelling insights into contemporary forms of illegal migration, under conditions of globalization, and makes a contribution to the literature in international relations and migration studies.
Download or read book Migrant Workers in Pacific Asia written by Yaw A. Debrah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The migration of workers to the high growth countries in Pacific Asia in the 1980s was a new phenomenon in these countries. As such the host governments did not have in place adequate housing, social security and legal protection, but the tight controls following the financial crisis have pushed these issues to the back burner. This volume discusses the debates and controversies surrounding this issue in Malaysia, Taiwan, SIngapore, South Korea, Japan and China.
Download or read book Transformation of the Intimate and the Public in Asian Modernity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the first major study in its field, offers an invaluable stepping-stone to a more informed understanding of the fundamental social changes taking place in Asia – defined as ‘a reconstruction of the intimate and public spheres’. Such changes are being observed worldwide, but previous studies relating to this phenomenon are largely based on Western experiences dating back to the 1970s. Developments in Asia, however, are manifesting both similarities and differences between the two regions. The book’s strongest appeal, therefore, lies in its theoretical orientation, seeking to define frameworks that are most relevant to the Asian reality. These frameworks include compressed and semi-compressed modernity, familialism, familialization policy, unsustainable society, the second demographic dividend, care diamonds, and the transnational public sphere. Such concepts are seen as essential in any discussion concerning the intimate and public spheres of contemporary Asia. Accordingly, Transformation of the Intimate and the Public in Asian Modernity can be seen as a valuable text as well as a work of reference and will be welcomed by social scientists and cultural anthropologists alike. The book comprises an in-depth introduction and ten chapters contributed by scholars from Japan, Korea, Thailand and Canada covering topics ranging from low fertility, changing life course, increasing non-regular employment, care provision, migrant workers, social policies, and family law, to the activities of transnational NGOs, with a special focus on distinctive features of Asian experiences.
Download or read book Maid to Order in Hong Kong written by Nicole Constable and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today over 120,000 women from the Philippines, over 90,000 from Indonesia, and thousands more from other parts of South and Southeast Asia serve as maids on two-year contracts in Hong Kong, sending much needed remittances to their families abroad. Nicole Constable tells their story by updating Maid to Order in Hong Kong with a focus on the major changes that have taken place since Hong Kong's reunification with mainland China in 1997, the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and the outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003. Interweaving her analysis with the women's individual stories, she shows how power is expressed in the day-to-day lives of Filipina domestic workers and more-recent Indonesian arrivals.
