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India's internal migrants and the first wave of COVID-19: The invisibility of female migrants. Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Kennedy Saldanha,Candy D'Cunha,Laura Kovick
This article highlights the plight of India's internal migrants during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, when media images depicted scores of these migrants hustling to return home. Using literature and newspaper searches, the article describes background factors influencing the large flows of internal migrants and the complexities of accurately defining and studying them. The study spotlights
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on academic performance and work-life balance of women academicians. Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 U Mukhopadhyay
This paper explores the academic experiences of women academicians in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data was collected through online questionnaires from 87 women faculty members teaching in colleges and universities. Findings indicate that increased household work of women due to the pandemic and resulting lockdown has amplified their effort in executing their teaching and examination related
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Understanding the role of ethnic online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Korean immigrant women's information-seeking behaviors. Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Gowoon Jung,Sou Hyun Jang
The rule of social distancing, coupled with the closing down of ethnic enclaves, has led immigrants to become isolated from their ethnic groups. In this study, we investigate the increasing role of ethnic online communities in immigrants' information-seeking behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis of 726 posts in MissyUSA reveals how an ethnic online community helps Korean immigrant women
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Lived experiences of women academics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan. Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-06-19 Rabia Ali,Hazir Ullah
This study explores the experiences of women academics while combining the challenging job of online teaching and familial responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan. The aim is to outline the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on women academics. We employed a qualitative research design and collected data through in-depth qualitative telephonic interviews with thirteen women academics
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Elusive belonging: Marriage immigrants and “multiculturalism” in rural South Korea, by Minjeong Kim Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Shane J. Barter,Nini Vo
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Representation of a Foreign Woman in Contemporary Japan Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Betsy Forero-Montoya
AbstractUnder the conceptual framework of foreign Otherness in Japan, the article explores the media representation of a Latin American woman, Anita Alvarado. It proposes that she became a well-known character who was instrumental in the othering processes of foreign identities in Japan. Originally from Chile, Alvarado moved to Japan and became involved in a scandalous fraud committed by her husband
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Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India, by Lilly Irani Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Elliott Prasse-Freeman
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Quality of Life and Diverse Temporalities amid Fast Urbanism Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Mihye Cho
AbstractQuality-of-life research leans toward measuring placed-based attributes of a locale while less attention has been given to understanding what people mean by quality of life. This paper reiterates that quality-of-life research is intrinsically about juxtaposing life conditions and life evaluation, thereby unveiling critical issues immanent in a society (Castells, 1983). This paper draws on interviews
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Determinants of Multicultural Identity for Well-Being and Performance Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Kavitha Balakrishnan,Madhubala Bava Harji,Ajitha Angusamy
AbstractCultural diversity, which poses both challenges and opportunities in a multicultural education setting, necessitates recognising factors that promote multicultural identities of educators to maximise multicultural attitudes for their wellbeing and performance. This study employs structural equation modelling to examine the determinants of multicultural identities from the perspective of the
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Marrying young in Indonesia: Voices, laws and practices, by Mies Grijns, Hoko Horii, Sulistyowati Irianto, and Pinky Saptandari (eds.) Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Zheng Mu
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Follow the maid: Domestic worker migration in and from Indonesia, by Olivia Killias Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Ellina Samantroy
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The Social Adaptation of Khmer Rouge Perpetrators in the Aftermath of the Cambodian Genocide Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Angeliki Andrea Kanavou,Kosal Path
AbstractThis paper explores the social adaptation of 157 former Khmer Rouge (KR) cadres. The cadres lived in relative isolation in the former KR stronghold, the semi-autonomous Anlong Veng, under the leadership of their commander, Chhit Chhoeun (alias Ta Mok). With the help of survey analysis, the paper presents findings regarding the cadres’ traumatisation, their views on assigning responsibility
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Constructing Authenticity in Discourse(s) Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Hashim Thadathil
AbstractClaiming and representing “True” Islam has been a major preoccupation among the Muslim groups in Kerala in recent times. In a way, this has augmented the Muslim public sphere in which active debates happen, and also breaks with the general understanding of Islam as monolithic in its ideology and practice. This paper attempts to bring precisely this dynamics of Muslim public sphere in Malabar
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Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters: Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860–1975, by Christopher J. Shepherd Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Noorman Abdullah
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Tourist Intentions to Visit or Revisit Archaeological Sites in Pakistan Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Jawaria Ashraf,Sumran Ali,Muhammad Asim Nawaz,Muhammad Ghufran
AbstractThis study contributes to the literature on archaeological tourism by investigating the impact of psychological distance on tourist’s continuity to visit or revisit the archaeological sites. Recent trends show tourist preferred to visit the natural beauty and modern art instead of archaeological sites. Archaeologist encounters a considerable amount of difficulties when they try to operate on
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Weekend Couples as a Manifestation of Gender Equality? Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Yun-Suk Lee
AbstractSome wives and husbands maintain separate residences. This form of couple is understood as a major transition in the gender arrangement of work and family. Using a sample of “weekend couples,” where Korean wives and husbands live separately, this study (1) compared weekend and typical couples in time spent on housework, and (2) examined whether time on housework is associated with life satisfaction
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Applying Syed Hussein Alatas’s Ideas in Contemporary Malaysian Society Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Sharifah Munirah Alatas
AbstractWhat do Malaysians understand by the term, “intellectual”? Is the intellectual in the Malaysian context undefined, or insignificant? Do Malaysians see the need for intellectuals? Answers to these questions reflect the extant to which Malaysia has advanced in her post-colonial development. Amidst the race towards IR 4.0 and Society 5.0, Malaysia’s education system lags behind and leaders continue
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The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life, by Lynette Chua Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Amy Doffegnies
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Sultanates and the Making of Nationhood in Indonesia and Malaysia Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Hakimul Ikhwan,Fachri Aidulsyah
AbstractThis paper seeks to answer the question of how the sultanates of Malaysia maintained their authority in the current nation-state era as almost all of Indonesia’s hundreds of sultanates (except for the Sultanate of Yogyakarta in Java) lost formal power. It proposes three findings. First, Dutch and British colonialism had different legacies in Indonesia and Malaysia, respectively. Second, following
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Queering Emotion in South Asia Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Jayaprakash Mishra
AbstractA paucity of scholarship on emotions in South Asia through a queer lens prevails, as the field is relatively new, and thus, majorly normative. Discussions around emotions, particularly guilt, remain heteronormative. The act of queering emotion not only challenges the dominant gendered affective discourse, but also proposes an alternative framework to understand and elucidate emotions pertinent
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The Other Ladies of Myanmar, by Jennifer Rigby Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Mayengbam Nandakishwor Singh
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Love, Money and Obligation: Transnational Marriage in a Northeastern Thai Village, by Patcharin Lapanun Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Manoj Kumar Jena
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Islam, Humanity and Indonesian Identity: Reflections on History, by Ahmad Syafii Maarif Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Dicky Sofjan
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An Ethnographic Study of Cross-Cultural Relations between China and Pakistan under the Umbrella of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Komal Niazi,Muhammad Shoaib,Azeem Khalid
AbstractCultural exchange between Pakistani and Chinese citizens increased after the launch of CPEC. Cooperation and understanding between the governments extended to collaboration and acceptance among the people. And people-to-people relations between the two sides strengthened. Students, artists, sportspersons, businesspeople, professionals, and workers travelled and developed a rapport with locals
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Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas have Shaped Asia’s History, by Sunil Amrith Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Lakshmi Pradeep
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America’s Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800–1900, by Farish A. Noor Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 Giorgio Mariani
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Islam, State and Society in Indonesia: Local Politics in, by Pribadi Yanwar Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 Shane J. Barter,Nikita Sukmono
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Legitimation in a world at risk: The case of genetically modified crops in India, by E.L. Desmond Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 E. Revathi
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Female Entrepreneurs and Access to Financial Capital Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 Klarissa Lueg,Amanda Ni
AbstractThis study identifies what similar aspects determine access to financial capital for female entrepreneurs both in Denmark and Indonesia. Departing from a structuralist constructivist perspective (including the concepts of symbolic violence, social similarity, female otherness), we identify the impact of gender-discrimination, nationality, and further variables. The sample comprises 124 female
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Contentious belonging: The place of minorities in Indonesia, by Greg Fealy and Ronit Ricci (eds.) Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 Rachel Rinaldo
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Construction of Gender Roles in 17th-Century Ottoman Dancing Boys (Köçeks) Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 Hasan Sankır
AbstractThis study explores how the sexual identity and practices of the köçeks, who were positioned in the entertainment field in 17th Century Ottoman Istanbul, were socially constructed and how these practices had been well understood in the social sphere of the era. For this purpose, gender roles and practices of Köçeks’ in this period are discussed in instrumentalised body concept and dance field
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Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone, by Stephen Campbell Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 Shae Frydenlund
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Southeast Asia’s Cold War: An Interpretive History, by Ang Cheng Guan Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 Bruce M. Lockhart
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Brokers on the Ward Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 Shahaduz Zaman, Sjaak van der Geest
This paper is based on an ethnographic study conducted in a public hospital in Bangladesh. The study shows how the social dynamics necessary to deal with the structural realities of the hospital give this cosmopolitan institution a local character. In this paper, we describe this local character by focusing on the lower-level hospital staff, such as ward boys, cleaners, and gatemen. Social inequality
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Place/No-Place in Urban Asian Religiosity, by Joanne Punzo Waghorne (ed.) Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Isaac Lam
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Urban Development in the margins of a world heritage site: In the shadows of Angkor, by Adèle Esposito Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Achala Gupta
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Globalization and Modernity in Asia: Performative Moments, by Chris Hudson and Bart Barendregt (eds.) Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Ivan Kwek
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How Culture Matters in Internet Usage Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Sangmoon Kim,Chang Bum Ju
AbstractThis study investigates cultural influences on the way that the Internet is utilised. We specifically examine how online time is allocated between information searching and communication in two culturally distinct societies: South Korea and the United States. Based on the argument that personal communication in South Korea shows a higher level of contexting, which is not easily transmitted
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A Republic in the Making. India in the 1950s, by Gyanesh Kudaisya Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Howard Brasted
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Theorising in Philippine Sociology, 1955–2017 Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Dennis S. Erasga,Yellowbelle D.M. Duaqui,Mark Oliver Llangco
AbstractThe article’s principal objective is to assess the state of theorising in Philippine sociology via the pages the Philippine Sociological Review (PSR). It reviews a portfolio of theoretical articles published by PSR over the span of seven decades (1955–2017). With PSR as the “interpretive canon,” the review uncovers suggestive actualities regarding the nature and extent of sociological theorising
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Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India, by Sarbeswar Sahoo Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-11-19 Suchandra Ghosh
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Mixed Race in Asia: Past, Present and Future, by Zarine L. Rocha and Farida Fozdar (eds.) Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-11-19 Erica Chito Childs
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Representation of Gender in the Secondary School Sindhi Textbooks of Pakistan Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-11-19 Ghazal Kazim Syed,Nadia Agha
AbstractFollowing a pictorial analysis of Sindhi primary textbooks used in Sindh province of Pakistan (Agha et al., 2018), we are interested in analysing the text and pictures used in secondary textbooks of Sindhi. The present study uses the previous study as a pilot and aims at exploring the representation of gender and citizenship in textbooks of Sindhi language used at the secondary level. This
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Contentions and Confirmations over Genetically Modified Technology Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-11-19 Avinash Kumar,Sambit Mallick
AbstractThe present study, from sociology of science and technology perspectives, examines the socio-political construal of innovations in rice biotechnology research in India with special reference to genetically modified (GM) technology. The primary data for the study has been collected through in-depth personal interviews with 68 molecular biologists and plant breeders engaged in rice biotechnology
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Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778, by Nhung Tuyet Tran Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-11-19 Bruce M. Lockhart
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Cosmopolitanism, Pluralism and Self-Orientalisation in the Modern Mystical World of Java Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-08-27 Judith Schlehe
AbstractAt present, a great deal of the scholarly research on Indonesia focuses on the processes of Islamisation. This paper will discuss a phenomenon that seems to point in a different direction, namely the contemporary reconfiguration of dukun/spiritual experts called paranormal. These mystics indicate a peculiar form of pluralism. They are an assemblage of tradition and modernity, locality and translocality
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Prospects of Pluralism in Indonesia Gauged from a Legal Anthropological Perspective Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-08-27 Martin Ramstedt
AbstractThe essentialist critique of liberal multiculturalism highlights the fact that the latter is inadvertently wedded to a collective cultural identity politics, which has encouraged the reification and rigidification of group identities. Foregrounding difference and preservationist attitudes, such identity politics tend to neglect the development of bridging social capital, and to undermine the
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Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes: Guest Workers in Asia and the Gulf, by Charanpal Singh Bal Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-08-27 Saroja Dorairajoo
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Indian Muslims: Struggling for Equality of Citizenship, by Riaz Hassan (ed.) Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-08-27 Ronojoy Sen
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Gender Relations in an Indonesian Society: Bugis Practices of Sexuality and Marriage, by Nurul IlmiIdrus Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-08-27 Arunima Datta
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Political Communication and Mobilisation: The Hindi Media in India, by Taberez Ahmed Neyazi Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 Arnab Roy Chowdhury
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Copts and the Security State: Violence, Coercion, and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt, by Laure Guirguis Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 Mina Ibrahim
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Articulation of Movement Demands and the Politics of Solidarity against Extractive Capital in Bangladesh Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 M. Omar Faruque
AbstractHow do disparate grievances join to form an agenda for collective action? This article analyses the articulation of movement demands and solidarity building during the formative phase of a popular mobilisation against a multinational mining company in Bangladesh. Drawing on a conceptual framework derived from Laclauian discourse theory, I explain how local community resistance inspired various
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Insects as Food in Laos and Thailand Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 Andrew Müller
AbstractLaos and Thailand show a decline of their diverse insect-eating traditions. Despite an urban “entomophagy” revival, respective rural practices are disappearing. In the context of a growing global interest in insects as food, this trend is being problematised as “Westernisation,” supposedly leading to food culture homogenisation. In this paper, I criticise that narrative as being over-simplified
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Passionate Revolutions: The Media and the Rise and Fall of the Marcos Regime, by Talitha Espiritu Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 George Baylon Radics
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Uprising of the Fools. Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India, by Vikash Singh Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 Eva Ambos
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The Historical Development of Indonesian Social Security Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 John Murphy
Indonesia’s National Social Security System (SJSN) aspires to universal coverage of insurance for health, retirement, and occupational benefits, such as employment injury. This article surveys the successive layers of policy development since the 1960s, in pensions and health benefits for some, and in social assistance programmes for the poor in the Reformasi era. Clarifying the nature of prior developments
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Understanding Filipino Korean Pop Music Fans Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-03-12 Erik Paolo Capistrano
AbstractHallyu’s success has caught the attention of academic research of various fields of expertise. This research endeavours to understand what makes Korean Pop music popular to Filipinos, addressing two research gaps: the lack of empirical management discourse, and the lack of focus on the Philippine KPop market. This research employs a theoretical model derived from an academic and practical product
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SHG s and SHG Banking in Odisha Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-03-12 Akhaya Kumar Nayak,Binay Kumar Pattnaik
AbstractThe SHG-based micro-finance programme for income generation and empowerment is extremely popular and has a wide reach in India. SHG s have been playing a key mediating role to empower a socially, economically, and politically deprived section comprising mostly women. Scholars have investigated the phenomenon of SHG, but largely from development perspectives. The present paper is an earnest
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Global Exposure in East Asia A Comparative Study of Microglobalization, by Tsai Ming-Chang Asian J. Soc. Sci. (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2019-03-12 Ibrahima Amadou Dia