Asia Claims of legality: The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 December 23, 2019 2 Image Credit: Rita Willaert/Assam /Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC 2.0. Written by Prasenjit Biswas. The full-scale, all-out ‘war of positions’ between Hindu right-wing politicians, left-wing…
Asia The long read: Host communities and refugees in Southeast Asia: A workshop report December 19, 2019 0 Image Credit: Hue 1972 by manhai/ Flickr ; Licence: 2.0 Generic (CC By 2.0) Written by Itty Abraham. In May 2019 a workshop was convened at…
Activism Raging resistance against India’s anti-Muslim citizenship law December 16, 2019 2 Image Credit: Refugees, Climatalk/Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC 2.0 Written by Ashok Swain. India is currently witnessing large-scale protests all over the country. While these protests are…
Asia Conceptualising hospitality in refugee management in India November 20, 2019 0 Image Credit: Refugees, Climatalk/Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC 2.0 Written by Nasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham Poyil. In a world order determined by ‘nation states’,…
China Precarious mobility: Chinese sex workers in the gig economy October 23, 2019 0 Image Credit: Shanghai, Prostitutes in back alleys by Lei Han/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. By Yeon Jung Yu. Over the course of twenty-seven months of field research…
Africa Cleaning up Guangzhou’s African enclave: A historical perspective August 28, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by the author. Written by Guangzhi Huang. In November 2014, the local government in Guangzhou launched a sweeping clean-up in Dengfeng Village,…
Burma/Myanmar Book review: ‘Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar’ August 15, 2019 0 Written by Debby Sze Wan Chan. Image Credit: ‘‘Untitled" by gforbes /CC; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Since the dissolution of the military regime in 2011, discussions about…
China Five years on: The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration March 15, 2019 0 Written by Jon Taylor. In February 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the creation of the ‘Jing-Jin-Ji’ (JJJ) metropolitan region in order to integrate the economies…
China Forty years and beyond: China’s rapid urbanisation since reform and opening-up March 14, 2019 0 Written by Mingxing Chen. China is experiencing the largest urbanisation process in human history. Since the beginning of reform and opening-up forty years ago, China’s…
China The interaction between urbanisation and house prices in China March 13, 2019 0 Written by Wei Bu and Yunyun Luo. Over the past decade, the rate of urbanisation in China has increased from 29.92 per cent in 1997…
