SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from April 1999

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from April 1999

Migrants' Practical Reasonings: The Social, Political, and Environmental Determinants of Long-Distance Migrations among the Kayan and Kenyah of the Interior of Borneo.
April 1, 1999... This paper focuses on the decision-making environment of the Kayan and Kenyah migrants who moved out of the interior of Borneo in the period after Indonesia's independence. It uses reconstructions of migration episodes combined with historical...

Learning and Knowing Boundaries: Schooling in New Order Indonesia.
April 1, 1999... Schooling practices in Indonesia take place within a centrally structured educational bureaucracy. The paper focuses on primary and secondary schools, which have undergone rapid expansion since the oil boom of the early 1980s. Taking school...

Rural Capitalists in India, Indonesia, and Malaysia: Three Cases, Two Debates, One Analysis?
April 1, 1999... There are divergent explanations but common empirical themes in the study of rural entrepreneurship in South and Southeast Asia. Most studies are based on empirical data collection in one country and present their data within an analytical...

Ritual Passage and the Reconstruction of Selfhood in International Labour Migration.
April 1, 1999... This paper reasserts the place of human agency amid the structural forces that seem to overdetermine international labour migration. To explore the meanings attached by migrants to overseas employment, the paper casts the worker's experience as...

The Miracle Turned Crises in the East Asian Region: Implications for Policies Affecting Transnational Migrants.
April 1, 1999... This paper focuses on the policy implications of the current regional economic crisis to labour migration in Southeast Asia. It begins with an important description of the Asian "miracle", followed by an examination of the critical, but...

Thailand's Responses to Transnational Migration during Economic Growth and Economic Downturn.
April 1, 1999... This paper first provides a brief overview of immigration into Thailand historically and particularly since the 1970s, and emigration from the country since the 1960s. It then examines migration policies pertaining to both flows, and shows that...

The Malaysian State's Response to Migration.
April 1, 1999... This paper first traces migration trends since 1970 in the context of economic growth and labour market development, and analyses the evolution of public policy as it reflects changing interests and concerns of the market, state, and society....

The Singapore State's Response to Migration.
April 1, 1999... The paper first presents major migration trends that show how immigration has always been an important part of Singapore's demographic history since 1819 and is directly linked to its economic development. Issues in migration policy discussed...

The Indonesian State's Response to Migration.
April 1, 1999... This paper first sets emigration issues and policies within the historical context of Dutch colonial rule in which emigration from Java to the Outer Islands formed part of the "Ethical Policy". This is followed by a discussion of post-colonial...

Philippine Migration Policy: Dilemmas of a Crisis.
April 1, 1999... This paper first reviews the historical development of Filipino migration policy since the early 1970s, with the emphasis shifting from labour export to migration management and the privatization of migration. The main trends of migration in...

Development and Culture in Singapore and Beyond.
April 1, 1999... What sort of impact does a burgeoning world culture make on Asia? Can Asia contribute to an emerging world culture? The answer to that question depends to an extent upon the way Asians re-think the nature of the relationship "modernity" has...

Understanding Singapore Society.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Understanding Singapore Society. Edited by Ong Jin Hui, Tong Chee Kiong, and Tan Ern Ser. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1997. 608 pp. The editors of this substantial reader state that their purpose in compiling it "was to select a handy...

Thai Images: The Culture of the Public World.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Thai Images: The Culture of the Public World. By Niels Mulder. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1997. 353 pp. Niels Mulder's new book comprises a collection of studies gathered under the rubric of the Thai "Public World". Readers of his...

Forests, Farmers and the State: Environment and Resistance in North-Eastern Thailand.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Forests, Farmers and the State: Environment and Resistance in North-Eastern Thailand. By Amare Tegbaru. Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology no. 41. Stockholm: Elanders Gotab, 1998. 289 pp. This book was written by a Swedish...