Migration and migrant workers

What are the most important policy problems facing rural Indonesia, and what can researchers do about them?

How can policies can better support migrant workers in return preparedness and safety nets, when planning to return permanently & in moments of disruptions?

Irresponsible sending agencies in Indonesia and stakeholders in Japan have found ways to manipulate and take advantage of a precarious cohort of migrant workers.

Insufficient legal revisions, corruption and press suppression in Vietnam leaves domestic workers vulnerable in Saudi Arabia.

Cái chết mới đây của một cô gái vị thành niên tên H Xuân Siu, được tuyển dụng làm người giúp việc nhà tại Ả-rập Xê-út đã khiến cả thế giới bàng hoàng.

Details around the recent death of migrant domestic worker, H Xuân Siu, reveal an exploitative transnational labour export system.

As their travel documents expire Myanmar migrants risk becoming undocumented and excluded from legal protections by shortcomings in both Myanmar and Thai migration policies.

In the aftermath of outrage as COVID-19 tore through migrant worker dormitories, is Singapore entering another bout of social amnesia?

A discussion on the power and limits of colonial racial categories; Hadramis, Sayyids and Sharifas in maritime Southeast Asia; modernity and cultural hybridity; the descendants of Arabs in the Malay world today;

Irene Fernandez recognised that our humanity is defined by the manner in which we relate to others especially by those whom society considers the least.