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Tag Archives: migrant workers
Foreign Labour Policy and Manufacturing Employment in Malaysia
“Foreign Labour Policy and Employment in Manufacturing: The Case of Malaysia” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2020.1759675) is a new article by Evelyn S. Devadason of the Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The abstract for the paper states: … Continue reading
Working in Vietnam and China
Kaxton Siu is with the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Jonathan Unger is at the Department of Political and Social Change, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University. They have a new article … Continue reading
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Tagged China, education, families, Jonathan Unger, Kaxton Siu, migrant workers, urbanisation, Vietnam
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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
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Tagged Ashley South, Bangladesh, Buddhism, David J.H. Blake, Ian G. Baird, Indonesia, Kristina Großmann, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, Laos, Mathew Mathews, migrant workers, Myanmar, Nathan Badenoch, Norihiko Yamada, Simon Creak, Singapore, Social media
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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
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Tagged Kyoko Kusakabe, Migrant labour, migrant workers, Myanmar, Stephen Campbell, Thailand
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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
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Tagged Diotima Chattoraj, Europe, Fiji, India, Md. Azmeary Ferdoush, Middle East, migrant workers, migration, Reece Jones
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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
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Tagged Jan-Jan Soon, Migrant labour, migrant workers, Philippines, USA, Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
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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
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Tagged Claudio Sopranzetti, Kevin Hewison, migrant workers, Non-standard work, Precarious work, Thailand
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