This book explores women's mobility in particular geographical, social, and cultural contexts. I am captivated by women's travel as a way of opening a space of inquiry about Eastern Indonesia's spatial relations. Examining practices of travel provides insights into contemporary social and cultural processes (Clifford 1997; Kaplan 1996; Tsing 2000). This book emphasizes how travel situates Easte…
Gerakan perempuan dalam kurun lima tahun terakhir telah memberikan dinamika yang menempatkan perempuan dalam suatu keberadaan yang berbeda dengan masa sebelumnya, terutama dalam pemberdayaan perempuan di bidang politik. Buku ini adalah bacaan penting bagi kalangan partai politik, anggota parlemen, LSM, mahasiswa, dan masyarakat luas. Banyak buku mengenai politik ditulis, tetapi langka yang memb…
Transisi dari kekuasaan oritarian menuju demokrasi adalah tren yang paling penting pada dekade di dalam sejarah politik Amerika Latin. Buku ini adalah mengenai sejarah politik perempuan di Amerika Latin, lalu membahas asal-muasal rejim oritarian birokratis di bagian selatan dan sejarah gerakan perempuan di wilayah tersebut. Buku ini membahas asal-muasal rejim oritarian birokratis di bagian sela…
With the whole world embroiled in war, a conference was held at the White House, in January 1940, and a report 'Children in a Democracy' subsequently published. Shortly after, a child psychologist, Despert (1942), reviewing the proceedings, reported that she found the study to be 'disappointing' in so far as psychological considerations were concerned, with only one short chapter, 'The Child in…
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life and death in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyew…
In 1951 Otto Christian Dahl demonstrated the close affinity of Malagasy to the Ma'anyan language in SE Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo). Thus the ancestors of the Malagasy must have migrated from Kalimantan to Madagascar. In the present book Dahl substantiates, from linguistic, cultural and historical evidence, why, how and when this migration took place. The actual time of the migrat…
Throughout South Asia, questions of ‘illegal immigration’ combined with those of ‘national security’ have acquired politically explosive dimensions in recent years. Despite this, migration studies have remained, by and large, confined to the domains of economics and demography. Dealing with transborder migrations from Bangladesh to West Bengal, The Marginal Nation analyzes these iss…
This book provides a valuable contribution to the current debate about Asian immigration by discussing it in the context not of Asian actions but of longstanding New Zealand attitudes and policies.
Bringing together critics of immigration and multiculturalism, this work argues that the policies of the immigration-receiving countries are leading to cultural and ethnic problems. It contains both original work as well as material first published in the American journal The Social Contract. Contents: 1. Understanding the United States immigration problem 2. The costs of immigration to the…
Population mobility increases with economic development and globalization. The migration of people affects countries in many ways -- socially, economically and politically. However, there are fundamental tensions in efforts to manage international migration in a globalizing world. On the one hand, business is transnational as it necessitates the unrestricted flow of people internationally. On t…