Tag Archives: migrant workers
Issue 5 for 2018 published
Issue number 5 for Volume 48 (2018) of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This number of the journal is a special issue. It also features one additional research article and two … Continue reading
Working on the Border
In a new book review, Kyoko Kusakabe of the Department of Development and Sustainability at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand discusses Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone, authored by Stephen Campbell. Published … Continue reading
South Asia and Migration
In a new review at the JCA publisher’s website, Diotima Chattoraj reviews Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond edited by Reece Jones and Md. Azmeary Ferdoush. The book is published by Amsterdam University Press. Chattoraj begins with the … Continue reading
Families, Caring and Filipina Migrants
In a new book review at the JCA publisher’s site, Jan-Jan Soon of the School of Economics, Finance & Banking at Universiti Utara Malaysia considers The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age. Authored by … Continue reading
Thailand’s Politics and Motorcycle Taxis
JCA Editor-in-chief Kevin Hewison reviews Claudio Sopranzetti’s Owners of the Map. Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok, published by the University of California Press. Hewison says this is an exciting book in that the reader is taken on … Continue reading
Issue 2 for 2018 published
Issue number 2 for Volume 48 (2018) of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This number is a special issue, featuring two additional research articles and book reviews. The special issue is … Continue reading
Bangladeshi migrants and Singapore
Bangladeshi Migration to Singapore: A Process-Oriented Approach, a new book from Springer, is reviewed by Mathew Mathews of the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Mathews observes that: “In … Continue reading
