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Activism and aid: young citizens’ experiences of development and democracy in Timor-Leste
Published 2017-04-01Open AccessOther -
After Nunukan: The Regulation of Indonesian Migration to Malaysia
Published 2006-01-01Labour migration from Indonesia to Malaysia is a complex phenomenon. Migrants enter Malaysia via a range of formal, semi-formal and informal channels, primarily through Sumatra and Kalimantan. Although Indonesian authorities ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Asia’s Labor Migration and Employment Relations Regimes
Published 2019-01-01What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey
Published 2021This article describes the Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey (ATEPS). The data set comprises a wide variety of preference and behavioral measures (risk aversion, impatience, ambiguity aversion, trust, confidence) ...Open AccessArticle -
Australia’s Response to the China Threat: The Case for Engagement
Published 2023-04-19The dominance of the China Threat discourse in Australia’s public affairs suggests poor prospects for any continued Australia-China relations, let alone positive interactions of mutual benefit. An exploration of alternative ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Belt and Road Initiative as Ten Policy Commandments: Review of Xi’s Kazakhstan and Indonesia Launch Speeches
Published 2023-04-19In 2019 Foreign Policy described China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as “the most talked about and least defined buzzword of this decade”. Given that confusion and the importance of leader political speeches in China, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Beyond the Femina fantasy: female industrial and overseas domestic labour in Indonesian discourses of women's work
Published 2003-01-01In the late 1990s, scholarly attention turned to glossy publications such as Femina, the premier Indonesian women's magazine, for insights into what it means to be a woman in Indonesia. When Brenner analysed the visual and ...Open AccessArticle -
The Bilingual Gap in Children’s Language, Emotional and Pro-social Development
Published 2021In this paper we examine whether – conditional on other family inputs – bilingual children achieve different outcomes in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which ...Article -
The Borders Within: Mobility and Enclosure in the Riau Islands
Published 2006-01-01The border studies literature makes a strong case against claims for unfettered transnationalism and ‘borderlessness’ in our ‘globalising world’. However, its focus on movement across borders means that it fails to address ...Open AccessArticle -
CCP Ideology, 1976-1980: From the "Two Whatevers,” to the “Criterion of Truth,” to the “Four Cardinal Principles,” and Beyond
Published 2023This Working Paper is a draft chapter for a book on the poorly understood CCP elite politics of the early post-Mao period, tentatively entitled Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping, and the Dismantling of Maoism. Nowhere is this ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A Challenge for Business? Developments in Indonesian Trade Unionism after Soeharto
Published 2004-01-01This chapter discusses debates on unionism and business from a labour movement perspective. It begins by briefly outlining developments in unionism in New Order Indonesia and sketching changes in the regulatory environment ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Changing geographies of fashion during Covid‐19: The Australian case
Published 2021COVID-19 has impacted a range of industries, of which the fashion industry is no exception. Here, we examine the effects of COVID‐19 on the geographies of that industry in Australia. We use a path‐dependency framework to ...Article -
Childhood homelessness and adult employment: the role of education, incarceration, and welfare receipt
Published 2017This paper examines the long-run employment consequences of experiencing homelessness in childhood rather than later in life. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of disadvantaged ...Open AccessArticle -
The Chinese of Karimun: Citizenship and Belonging at Indonesia's Margins
Published 2013-01-01We argue that the localized expression of Chinese Indonesian identity in Karimun suggests a need to move beyond a focus on integration versus assimilation to an analysis of how identity and belonging are tied to a sense ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Choosers Adapt Value Coding to the Environment, But Do Not Attain Efficiency
Published 2023We investigate how human choosers adapt their value encoding strategy to the statistics of the choice environment. Specifically, we ask whether the human value encoding mechanism exhibits divisive normalization only in the ...Open AccessConference paper -
Contested Borders, Contested Boundaries: The Politics of Labour Migration in Southeast Asia
Published 2012-01-01This chapter examines the political economy of labour migration in the region, with a focus on its implications for collective action. It argues that the pivotal role of temporary labour migrants in Southeast Asiaposes ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Context-dependency in valuation
Published 2016In the last few years, work in the nascent field of neuroeconomics has advanced understanding of the brain systems involved in value-based decision making. An important modulator of valuation processes is the specific ...Open AccessArticle -
Continuity of mental health care during the transition from prison to the community following brief periods of imprisonment
Published 2022Purpose: The prison-to-community transition period is one of high risk and need, particularly for those with mental illness. Some individuals cycle in and out of prison for short periods with little opportunity for mental ...Article -
Covid-19 and the China opportunity narrative: investment, trade, and the belt and road initiative
Published 2022Article