SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from October 2003

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from October 2003

Migrant family drama revisited: mainland Chinese immigrants in Singapore.
October 1, 2003... Long, a thirty-eight-year-old man, came to Singapore in 1997. He had been an engineer in China. Through friends who were working in Singapore, he learned of a job opening there and relocated. A year later his wife Jian joined him. Jian, a...

After The Malay Dilemma: the modern Malay subject and cultural logics of "national cosmopolitanism" in Malaysia.
October 1, 2003... Introduction Mobility is the great story of capitalist modernity. What this story tells is the epic movements of trade, peoples, cultures, and capital across the globe, movements that are greatly intensified in the contemporary "postmodern...

Global flows of foreign talent: identity anxieties in Singapore's ethnoscape.
October 1, 2003... Introduction Despite openly embracing globalization, the vagaries of global capitalism have heightened new economic challenges for Singapore. Shortly after the post-Asian financial crisis in 2000, the erstwhile economic recovery and...

From travelogues to guidebooks: imagining colonial Singapore, 1819-1940.
October 1, 2003... People come to know about places in a variety of ways, among which the most important and highly valued is through travel. Travel experiences seldom occur in a vacuum, but, instead are filtered through preconceived images and expectations....

A game of three monkeys: KadazanDusun villagers and violence against women.
October 1, 2003... All of the acts of gender-based violence discussed in this article and drawn from one village in Borneo have been occurring as far back as memory stretches. They are part of the overall text underlying marital violence, that the World Health...

The socio-economic impacts of rice policies implementation in rural Burma/Myanmar.(Research Notes and Comments)
October 1, 2003... Introduction Burma is a predominantly agricultural country: About 75 per cent of the population, and 64.1 per cent of the labour force (1995-96) still live in the countryside, where farming is their main occupation. Agriculture constitutes...

A Country in Despair: Indonesia between 1997 and 2000.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... A Country in Despair: Indonesia between 1997 and 2000. By Kees van Dijk. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2001. 621 pp. In late 1997 Indonesia's economy went into a tail-spin, culminating in social and political upheavals that saw Soeharto's...

Identites en regard: Destins chinois en milieu bouddhiste thai.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Bernard Formoso. Paris: CNRS Editions/Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2000. 288 pp. Identites en regard: Destins chinois en milieu bouddhiste thai is an ethnographic study of the Chinese community resident in Din Dam, a...

The Thai Village Economy in the Past.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Chatthip Nartsupha. Translated by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit. First published 1984. Reprint ed. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999. 131 pp. How wonderful to have this classic work available in English! Originally published in Thai...

Chinese Populations in Contemporary Southeast Asian Societies: Identities, Interdependence and International Influence.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by M. Jocelyn Armstrong, R. Warwick Armstrong, and Kent Mulliner. Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. 268 pp. Certain negative mental images persist of the estimated 23 million ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, scattered unevenly across the...