25. May 2009

From Thailand to Svalbard: migration on the margins by An-Magritt Jensen

gender, Globalization, InFocus

Halfway between the European mainland and the North Pole, a group of islands, Svalbard, has become a Thai diaspora in miniature. Longyearbyen, the only place with permanent settlement, is a tiny city with only 2,000 inhabitants. Norwegians are in the majority and make up 85 per cent of the population. But among the 30 other […]

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15. May 2009

The contradictory impact of globalization and migration on gender equality by Professor Birte Siim

gender, Globalization, InFocus

The challenges from globalization and migrationGlobalization is contested, and the meanings of globalization need to be discussed within different contexts. Trans-nationalism challenges established research paradigms connected to the nation states.  One of the challenges of gender research is arguably to focus on diversities among women within and between nation states, for example between women in […]

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11. May 2009

Chinese Migrant Women Workers in a Dormitory Labour System by Pun Ngai

China, gender, InFocus

Under the Chinese dormitory labour regime the lives of women migrant workers are shaped by the international division of labour. The dormitory labour system is a gendered form of labour use to fuel global production in new industrialized regions, especially in South China. The system also forms the basis for the development of class consciousness […]

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4. May 2009

Gendering globalization by Cecilia Milwertz, Birte Siim and Zhao Jie

China, gender, InFocus

The current global financial situation bluntly and brutally brings home the fact that the global and local are closely connected in times of opportunity as well as crisis. The articles in this issue of Asia Insights are about intra-action between Asia, particularly China, and the Nordic countries. Intra-action is the word feminist theorist Karen Barad uses about phenomena that mutually integrate to affect each other, as opposed to interaction between separate entities. The articles emphasize that we can no longer only study Asia as a far-away entity.

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