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The Nordic Asia PodcastMigrant labour and care with Megha AmrithIn this episode, anthropologist Dr Megha Amrith joins Adela Brianso to discuss her research in migrant labour and care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amrith shares her insights on the current migration regimes in Asia and around the world, the undervalued work of nurses and carers and the heritage of colonialism still present today. 2020-06-0133 min
New Books in Southeast Asian StudiesEric J. Pido, “Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity” (Duke UP, 2017)The government of the Philippines has for decades encouraged its citizens to seek work abroad and send money back to the country in remittances. But in recent years it has increasingly sought to entice Filipinos who have settled abroad to come home, not only for tourism but also for retirement. In Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity (Duke University Press, 2017), Eric J. Pido travels with Filipino Americans as they try to reimagine their lives and lifestyles in the gated communities and malls of Manila, and beyond. Along the way he encounters real estate agents, bureaucrats, investors and family...2017-10-2738 min
New Books in Asian American StudiesEric J. Pido, “Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity” (Duke UP, 2017)The government of the Philippines has for decades encouraged its citizens to seek work abroad and send money back to the country in remittances. But in recent years it has increasingly sought to entice Filipinos who have settled abroad to come home, not only for tourism but also for retirement. In Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity (Duke University Press, 2017), Eric J. Pido travels with Filipino Americans as they try to reimagine their lives and lifestyles in the gated communities and malls of Manila, and beyond. Along the way he encounters real estate agents, bureaucrats, investors and family...2017-10-2738 minNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesMegha Amrith, “Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia” (NIAS Press, 2016)If you’ve been hospitalized in Europe, North America, Australia or the Middle East in recent years, chances are that at some point a nurse from the Philippines has had some part in your treatment. As Megha Amrith writes in the introduction to Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia (NIAS Press, 2017), Filipinos today comprise one of the largest global diasporas of medical workers, with the Philippines having over 400 nursing colleges, many of them aimed primarily at preparing graduates for work abroad. But as the book’s subtitle indicates, it is a diaspora that stretches not only beyond but...2017-05-2242 min
New Books in MedicineMegha Amrith, “Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia” (NIAS Press, 2016)If you’ve been hospitalized in Europe, North America, Australia or the Middle East in recent years, chances are that at some point a nurse from the Philippines has had some part in your treatment. As Megha Amrith writes in the introduction to Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia (NIAS Press, 2017), Filipinos today comprise one of the largest global diasporas of medical workers, with the Philippines having over 400 nursing colleges, many of them aimed primarily at preparing graduates for work abroad. But as the book’s subtitle indicates, it is a diaspora that stretches not only beyond but...2017-05-2242 min
Unterwegs. Nirgends daheim?Diskussionsrunde "Erwartungen und Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen"In der Diskussionsrunde, deren Moderation Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha inne hatte, wurden erneut unerfüllte Erwartungen der Flüchtlinge, die Interaktion von Gemeinschaften, die Rolle der Medien und viele weitere Aspekte diskutiert.
Die Runde setzte sich aus flogenden Personen zusammen:
- Dr. Jeroen Doomernik
Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies,
Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Prof. Dr. Tahir Abbas
Professor für Soziologie
Fatih University Istanbul
- Dr. Megha Amrith
Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility
United Nations University, Barcelona
Die Diskussionsrunde fand während des Symposiums "Unterwegs. Nirgends daheim?" am 23. April 2016 im Rahmen der 23. Europäischen Kultu...2016-06-2300 minUnterwegs. Nirgends daheim?Erwartungen von MigrantenDr. Megha Amrith, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institute of Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) an der United Nations University in Barcelona, spricht in ihrem Vortrag über die Erwartungshaltungen von Migranten. Dabei geht sie u.a. auf die Situation philippinischer Migranten ein, gibt Einblicke in die Ausdrucksformen der Thematik in digitalen und visuellen Medien und versucht mit zahlreichen Beispielen ein besseres Verständnis für die globalen Migrationsbewegungen zu schaffen.
Der Vortrag fand während des Symposiums "Unterwegs. Nirgends daheim?" am 23. April 2016 im Rahmen der 23. Europäischen Kulturtage Karlsruhe statt.
Weitere Informationen: http://www.zak.kit.edu/ekt.php2016-06-0900 min