Recently added articles from NIAS Nytt:
Asia and the Nordic dimension
Jun 01, 2009; ... Asia looms prominently in our present world, and therefore an increasing number of academics in all fields relate in one way or another to what is happening on the vast Asian continent and the relations between them and us, or, to use a phrase from the present issue of Asia Insight: the ...
Gendering globalization
Jun 01, 2009; ... 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 ...
The contradictory impact of globalization and migration on gender equality
Jun 01, 2009; ... Globalization and migration have increased diversities and inequalities within and between nation-states and have created new problems regarding public policies intended to regulate political and socio-economic problems on national and global levels. Globalization and increased migration thus ...
Chinese migrant women workers in a dormitory labour system*
Jun 01, 2009; ... 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 ...
From Thailand to Svalbard: migration on the margins
Jun 01, 2009; ... Halfway between the European mainland and the North Pole, a group of islands, Svalbard, has become the site of a Thai diaspora in miniature. Longyearbyen, the only place with permanent settlement, is a tiny town with only 2,000 inhabitants. Norwegians are in the majority and make up 85 per cent ...