Multidisciplinary Initiatives: Recent submissions
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Temporary Labour Migration and Care Work: The Japanese Experience
Published 2013-01-01Around the world, advanced industrial societies are facing a demographic time bomb that has enormous implications for the workforce in general, but for workforce planning and industrial relations in the health sector and ...Open AccessArticle -
Experiments in Cross-Scalar Labour Organizing: Reflections on Trade Union-Building Work in Aceh after the 2004 Tsunami
Published 2012-01-01As part of the post-tsunami reconstruction effort Aceh, international labour movement organizations “jumped scale” in an attempt to revitalize a moribund local labour movement. This article provides a close analysis of the ...Open AccessArticle -
The Global Union Federations and Temporary Labour Migration in Malaysia
Published 2013-01-01Since the mid-2000s, the Global Union Federations have played a pivotal role in the reshaping of Malaysian trade unions’ attitudes towards temporary migrant workers, providing the conceptual tools and material resources – ...Open AccessArticle -
Temporary Transnationals: Southeast Asian Students in Australia
Published 2011-01-01Despite rapidly increasing global flows of international students, research to date has paid little heed to how students abroad identify and mobilise. Focusing on the experience of Indonesians, Malaysians and Singaporeans ...Open AccessArticle -
‘Where Are Your Victims?’
Published 2010-01-01The United States has played a key role in international efforts to address trafficking in Indonesia, as elsewhere. In October 2001, the US State Department established an Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, ...Open AccessArticle