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,…
Asia Tell the World I am Coming Home: Asian Culture and the Third Culture Kid October 16, 2018 0 Written by Niyati Pingali By definition, a third culture kid (TCK) is one who has grown up in a culture different to that of their…
Identity politics Toward A Critical Study of Racialization – Notes from West Asia July 16, 2018 0 Written by Adriana Ahmad Qubaia-ova. Lebanon is quickly becoming a major site for the production of knowledge on gender and sexuality in the Middle East…
China Who are the expats in China? The case of Suzhou April 17, 2018 0 Written by Hyungmin Kim. There are increasing numbers of foreign nationals in large Chinese cities. The number of foreign nationals with a working permit increased…
Pacific Islands Climate Change in the Pacific Islands: Historical, Physical and Social December 6, 2017 0 Written by Ilan Kelman. The media, and sometimes even scientific journals, frequently suggest that Pacific islands are sinking and disappearing due to climate change. We…
Pacific Islands Migration and Climate Change in the Pacific Islands December 5, 2017 0 Written by Eberhard Weber. Climate change poses a significant threat to Small Island Developing States (SIDS). There are fears that entire atoll states in the…
Culture and Society Taiwan’s cross-border marriages: Discrimination via the discourse of love November 6, 2017 0 Written by Hong-zen Wang and Mei-hua Chen. In the old days, the purpose of marriage in traditional Han Chinese society was to establish a relationship between two…
China Dividing the Third Pole June 21, 2017 1 Written by Martin Mills. Over the last decade, the Tibetan Plateau has changed beyond recognition. In the place of the organic huddles of mud-brick villages…
China The experiences of Chinese Students and Returnees November 25, 2016 0 Written by Qing Gu. Over the last two decades, Chinese student mobility has undergone profound changes. Exponential growth has taken place, driven ‘in part by…
