Globalization and Social Transformation in the Asia-Pacific [electronic resource] : The Australian and Malayasian Experience /
Tazreiter, C.editor.
Tham, S.editor.
The contributors engage with a range of critical and contemporary issues of two key societies in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia and Malaysia. These include foreign policy and national security; multiculturalism and citizenship; the middle class; global governance; migrants and international students.
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Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Globalization as Localized Experience, Adaptation and Resistance - an Introduction; Claudia Tazreiter and Tham Siew Yean -- PART I: REGIONALISM, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY -- 2. Regionalism and Democracy in Asia: the Australia-Malaysia Nexus; Benjamin Reilly -- 3. Malaysia's Approach to Asian Regionalism in the Context of Expanding Globalization; K.S. Nathan -- 4. Globalization Transforms the Broad Middle Class; Michael Pusey -- 5. Responding to Globalization and the State: Negotiations and Contestations by the Middle Class in Malaysia; Abdul Rahman Embong -- 6. Globalization and Industrial Governance: A View from Australia; Elizabeth Thurbon -- 7. Liberalization and Domestic Regulation in Malaysia's Services Sector: the Case of the Private Higher Education Sector; Tham Siew Yean -- PART II: BELONGING, RIGHTS AND MIGRATION -- 8. Multiculturalism and Citizenship - the Malaysia Experience; Helen Ting -- 9. Multiculturalism and Citizenship - the Australian Experience; Geoffrey Brahm Levey -- 10. An Uncomfortable Fit: Australia's Refugee Policy in a Regional Context; Linda Bartolomei and Eileen Pittaway -- 11. Temporary, Precarious and Invisible Labour: Globalized Migrant Workers in Australia; Claudia Tazreiter -- 12. Irregular Migrants, Human Rights and Securitization in Malaysia: a Policy Perspective; A.K.M Ahsan Ullah -- 13. Gender Equality and the Regulation of Intimate Relations; Helen Pringle and Siti Muhammad -- 14. Reframing Gender: Civil Society and Dissent in Malaysia; Saskia Louise Scha;fer and Julian C.H. Lee -- 15. Globalization and Australian International Education; Rogelia Pe-Pua and Le Nhat Tran -- 16. Internationalization in Malaysia's Higher Education; Ragayah Haji Mat Zin.
The contributors engage with a range of critical and contemporary issues of two key societies in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia and Malaysia. These include foreign policy and national security; multiculturalism and citizenship; the middle class; global governance; migrants and international students.
International relations.
Asia—Politics and government.
Sociology.
Globalization.
Economic development.
Ethnology—Asia.
International Relations.
Asian Politics.
Sociology, general.
Globalization.
Development Studies.
Asian Culture.