Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Emerging Labour Movements and the Accountability Dilemma: The Case of Indonesia
Published 2006-01-01This chapter begins by examining the arguments most often made about the differences between labor unions and labor NGOs and the effects those differences have on the nature and extent of their accountability to workers. ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Southern Sites of Female Agency: Informal Regimes and Female Migrant Labour Resistance in East and Southeast Asia
Published 2007-01-01This chapter focuses on FDWs’ collective activism and middle-class campaigns in sending and receiving countries in East and Southeast Asia around foreign domestic worker issues. The chapter begins with a brief overview of ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Singaporean First: Challenging the Concept of Transnational Malay Masculinity
Published 2009-01-01This chapter calls into question ideas about the existence of a transnational Malay-Muslim identity by examining the ways in which Malay men understand and perform their masculinity vis-a-vis men in the neighbouring countries ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Smuggling Cultures in the Indonesia-Singapore Borderlands
Published 2012-01-01In this chapter, we examine the unauthorised movement of goods across the border to and from Indonesia's Riau Islands from the perspective of the individuals who smuggle and consume them, and from the perspective of local ...Open AccessBook chapter