Search Results - "Pacific Affairs"

Opening the Black Box of Migration: Brokers, the Organization of Transnational Mobility and the Changing Political Economy in Asia by Lindquist, Johan, Xiang, Biao, Yeoh, Brenda S.A.

“…This special issue takes the migrant broker as a starting point for investigating contemporary regimes of transnational migration across Asia. The articles,…”
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Fighting Illiberalism with Illiberalism: Islamist Populism and Democratic Deconsolidation in Indonesia by Mietzner, Marcus

“…Abstract The global rise of populist campaigns against democratic governments has revived the long-standing scholarly debate on how democracies can best defend…”
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Water, Water Everywhere: Toward Participatory Solutions to Chronic Urban Flooding in Jakarta by Padawangi, Rita, Douglass, Mike

“…Jakarta has entered an era of chronic flooding that is annually affecting tens of thousands of people, most of whom are crowded into low-income neighbourhoods…”
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To Join or Not to Join? State Ownership, Commercial Interests, and China's Belt and Road Initiative by Li, Xiaojun, Zeng, Ka

“…The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is often regarded as a vehicle of China's economic statecraft in that country's endeavour to expand its geopolitical…”
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Producing the Self-Regulating Subject: Liberal Protection in Indonesia's Migration Infrastructure by Chang, Andy Scott

“…Labour protection has become a dominant agenda in global migration governance, particularly for sending countries whose diasporic citizens are denied political…”
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The Urban Political Ecology of the 2011 Floods in Bangkok: The Creation of Uneven Vulnerabilities by Marks, Danny

“…This paper uses an urban political ecology analysis to question the discourses used by Thai government leaders regarding the causes of the 2011 floods in…”
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Infrastructuralization: Evolving Sociopolitical Dynamics in Labour Migration from Asia by Xiang, Biao, Lindquist, Johan

“…This article explores the trend of "infrastructuralization" in state-sponsored programs of low- and semi-skilled labour migration from Asia. These programs…”
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Democratic Decline in Indonesia: The Role of Religious Authorities by Schafer, Saskia

“…The Council of Indonesian Islamic Scholars (MUI) has exerted increased political influence in Indonesian politics since the fall of Suharto. Constituted by…”
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Thailand's 2019 Vote: The General's Election by Ricks, Jacob I.

“…Thailand's March 2019 ballot was the first for the country since 2011, and for many it signaled the potential end of the military junta's five-year rule. But…”
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Labour Recruitment, Circuits of Capital and Gendered Mobility: Reconceptualizing the Indonesian Migration Industry by Lindquist, Johan

“…During the last decade there has been a marked shift in the structure of migration from Indonesia with the deregulation of the transnational labour recruitment…”
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Aspirational Infrastructure: Everyday Brokerage and the Foreign-Employment Recruitment Agencies in Nepal by Shrestha, Tina

“…This article contributes to the current scholarship on migration brokerage and infrastructure by revealing the contingent, experimental, and dynamic nature of…”
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The Elementary School Teacher, the Thug and his Grandmother: Informal Brokers and Transnational Migration from Indonesia by Lindquist, Johan

“…This article considers the emergence of informal brokers in the context of an increasingly formalized regime of transnational labour migration from Indonesia…”
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How the Box Became Black: Brokers and the Creation of the Free Migrant by McKeown, Adam

“…Migration brokers and the organization of human mobility did not always exist in a black box. Before the early twentieth century, most attention from…”
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The Richness of Financial Nationalism: The Case of China by Helleiner, Eric, Wang, Hongying

“…Financial nationalism has received little attention in the literature on Chinese nationalism. Nor has China been a focus of the emerging literature on…”
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Proud to be Thai: The Puzzling Absence of Ethnicity-Based Political Cleavages in Northeastern Thailand by Ricks, Jacob I.

“…Underneath the veneer of a homogenous state-approved Thai ethnicity, Thailand is home to a heterogeneous population. Only about one-third of Thailand's…”
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Embracing Scientific Decision Making: The Rise of Think-Tank Policies in China by Xue, Lan, Zhu, Xufeng, Han, Wanqu

“…The literature has traditionally regarded the rise and fall of Chinese think tanks as a product of the relaxation or tightening of control over the ideological…”
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Land Rights in Cambodia: How Neopatrimonial Politics Restricts Land Policy Reform by Un, Kheang, So, Sokbunthoeun

“…Cambodia has undergone substantial changes since the United Nations' sponsored election in 1993. Politically, the country has become increasingly stable under…”
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Gambling on the Future: Casino Enclaves, Development, and Poverty Alleviation in Laos by Sims, Kearrin

“…Following the extraordinary wealth generation of casinos in Macau and Singapore, governments and non-state actors across Southeast Asia have developed gambling…”
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Constructed Hierarchical Government Trust in China: Formation Mechanism and Political Effects by Su, Zhenhua, Ye, Yanyu, He, Jingkai, Huang, Waibin

“…The Chinese government has long enjoyed a higher level of popular trust in its central authority than in its local governments, which means that the Chinese…”
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All Politics is Local: Judicial and Electoral Institutions' Role in Japan's Nuclear Restarts by Aldrich, Daniel P., Fraser, Timothy

“…Since the 3/11 compounded disasters, Japanese energy policy, especially its nuclear policy, has been paralyzed. After the Fukushima disasters, public opinion…”
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