This text seeks to provide an understanding of Southeast Asia as a region, the problems of statehood faced by the individual countries, and the search for regional order, peace and stability.
Covers the period from 1950 to 1989. Focuses on the impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) on the volume of undocumented immigration into the USA. Includes a chapter on emigration pressure in Europe and Africa.
This volume moves beyond the traditional view of decolonization as simply a transfer of power. Instead the chapters emphasize the process rather than events to provide a framework for discussion. The editors have brought together Asian, American and European scholars to share different perspectives & insights in the post-colonial era.
This work provides the basis for a reconceptualization of key features in Southeast Asia's history. It examines evolutionary patterns of Europe's and Japan's Southeast Asian empires from the late 19th century through World War II, and offer insights into the events of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
Working from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on the social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities, this book investigates the causes and effects of the extremities experienced by migrants. Firstly, the volume analyses the development and political-cultural conditions of current practices and discourses of 'bordering,' 'illegality,' and 'irregularization.' Secondly, it focuses o…
A compilation of comparative studies of local politics and political cultures in term of the social integration in postcolonial insular Southeast Asia such as Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. This book attempts to clarify the influence of colonial knowledge on the relationship between the colonized and the colonizer, focusing on the postcolonial political situations as a local pros…
Bilderberg Group dimotori oleh keluarga Rockefeller. David Rockefeller, Rupert Murdoch, Paul Wolfowitz, Romano Prodi, dan Henry Kissinger adalah sebagian tokoh dunia yang menjadi anggotanya. Pertemuan kelompok ini selalu dihadiri oleh orang-orang berpengaruh, seperti presiden IMF, Bank Dunia, dan Federal Reserve; para pemimpin perusahaan besar seperti DaimlerChrysler, Coca-Cola, British Petrole…
This book combines philosophical, historical, and legal analysis to clarify the key concepts at stake in the debate over refugees and human rights, and to demonstrate the threat posed by contemporary border regimes to rights protection and the rule of law within liberal democracies
Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than the Guardian's migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley. Throughout 2015, Kingsley travelled to 17 countries along the migrant trail, meeting hundreds of refugees making epic odysseys across deserts, seas and mountains to reach the holy grail of Eu…
Written from various perspectives, this collection of essays explores the migration experiences of a spectrum of people, from professional and managerial elites to contract workers and refugees. In addressing the nature of these Asian migrations, it demonstrates how mobility in the world has transformed notions of citizenship and identity.