Brenda S A Yeoh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenda S A Yeoh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenda S A |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeoh |
| SIGNATURE | YEOH B S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of SingaporeSingapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 10 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Migrant Workers in Singapore: Lives and Labour in a Transient Migration Regime
Handbook on Transnationalism
Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting
1. Introduction 2. The Work of Forgetting and Remembering Places 3. Urban Political Economy Beyond the 'Global City' 4. Local Memory and Worldly Narrative: The remote city in America and Japan 5. Rural Villages as Socially Urban Spaces in Malaysia 6. Whither Nationalist Urbanism?: Public life in Governor Sutiyoso's Jakarta 7. Debt Restructuring and the Politics of Exclusion: A case study of the Daewoo Motor Bupyeong plants in Incheon, South Korea…
Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility
Typically, scholars approach migrants' religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin. This ethnographic anthology challenges that position by reframing the religious experiences of migrants as a transformative force capable of refashioning narratives of displacement into journeys of spiritual awakening and missionary calling. These essays explore migrants' motivations in support of …
Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations
10.4324/9781315660493
Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia
The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian transnational labour migration where remittances tend
Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field
Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia
To return or not to return : the changing meaning of mobility among Japanese Brazilians, 1908-2010 / Koji Sasaki -- Soldier's home : war, migration, and delayed return in postwar Japan / Mariko Asano Tamanoi -- Guiqiao as political subjects in the making of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 / Wang Cangbai -- Transnational encapsulation : compulsory return as a labor-migration control in East Asia / Xiang Biao -- Cambodians go "home" : for…
Introduction: Fluidity and Friction in Talent Migration
In this introduction to the special issue of JEMS on The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in Asia, we note the movement in the academic literature from a narrow focus on the economic rationalities and corporate logics of transnational mobility among professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites, to a greater interest in these elite transnational subjects as embodied bearers of culture, ethnicity, class and gender. We draw out two key t…
Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region
1. Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Peggy Teo and Shirlena Huang Introduction: Women's Agencies and Activisms in the Asia-Pacific Region2. Lily Phua and Brenda S. A. Yeoh Nine Months: Women's Agency and the Pregnant Body in Singapore3. Tatjana Haque Body Politics in Bangladesh4. Rita S. Gallin The Politics of Resistance: Working-class Women in Rural Taiwan5. Rebecca Elmhirst Negotiating Land and Livelihood: Agency and Identities in Indonesia's Transmigration P…
Singaporean and British transmigrants in China and the cultural politics of 'contact zones
The international migration of professional workers has increased in scope over the past 20 years as skilled workers are needed when companies’ activities cross national borders. While this trend has been recognised from an economic perspective, much less has been researched from a social and cultural angle. Using case studies of British and Singaporean migration to China, this paper employs a comparative frame to examine the effect of cultural d…
Observations on Transnational Urbanism: Possibilities, Politics and Costs of Simultaneity
State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia Pacific
1. Introduction: Transnationalism as a Challenge to the Nation 2. The Myth of the Controllability of Difference: Labour Migration, Transnational Communities and State Strategies in the Asia-Pacific Region 3. Speres of Speculation and Middling Transnational Migrants: Chinese-Indonesians in the Asia-Pacific 4. Citizenship and Differential Exclusion of Immigrants in Japan 5. Is there a Transnation? Migrancy and the National Homeland among Overseas F…
Chinese Migrants Abroad - Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result…
Asian Migrants and Education: The Tensions of Education in Immigrant Societies and among Migrant Groups
Tourism Management and Policy - Perspectives from Singapore
Tourism plans: tourism in Singapore - an overview of policies and issues, B.S.A. Yeoh et al Singapore's new economic initiatives and implications for tourism, L. Low Tourism 21 and Singapore's tourism satellite accounts, C. Khoo regionalisation as a strategy for Singapore's tourism development, E. Tham gateways, hubs and destinations - transportation hierarchies in Southeast Asia, N. Sriram et al. Tourism resources and infrastructure: development…
Singaporean and British transmigrants in China and the cultural politics of 'contact zones
The international migration of professional workers has increased in scope over the past 20 years as skilled workers are needed when companies’ activities cross national borders. While this trend has been recognised from an economic perspective, much less has been researched from a social and cultural angle. Using case studies of British and Singaporean migration to China, this paper employs a comparative frame to examine the effect of cultural d…
Introduction: Fluidity and Friction in Talent Migration
In this introduction to the special issue of JEMS on The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in Asia, we note the movement in the academic literature from a narrow focus on the economic rationalities and corporate logics of transnational mobility among professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites, to a greater interest in these elite transnational subjects as embodied bearers of culture, ethnicity, class and gender. We draw out two key t…
Observations on Transnational Urbanism: Possibilities, Politics and Costs of Simultaneity
Tourism Management and Policy - Perspectives from Singapore
Tourism plans: tourism in Singapore - an overview of policies and issues, B.S.A. Yeoh et al Singapore's new economic initiatives and implications for tourism, L. Low Tourism 21 and Singapore's tourism satellite accounts, C. Khoo regionalisation as a strategy for Singapore's tourism development, E. Tham gateways, hubs and destinations - transportation hierarchies in Southeast Asia, N. Sriram et al. Tourism resources and infrastructure: development…
Chinese Migrants Abroad - Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result…
Asian Migrants and Education: The Tensions of Education in Immigrant Societies and among Migrant Groups
State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia Pacific
1. Introduction: Transnationalism as a Challenge to the Nation 2. The Myth of the Controllability of Difference: Labour Migration, Transnational Communities and State Strategies in the Asia-Pacific Region 3. Speres of Speculation and Middling Transnational Migrants: Chinese-Indonesians in the Asia-Pacific 4. Citizenship and Differential Exclusion of Immigrants in Japan 5. Is there a Transnation? Migrancy and the National Homeland among Overseas F…
Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region
1. Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Peggy Teo and Shirlena Huang Introduction: Women's Agencies and Activisms in the Asia-Pacific Region2. Lily Phua and Brenda S. A. Yeoh Nine Months: Women's Agency and the Pregnant Body in Singapore3. Tatjana Haque Body Politics in Bangladesh4. Rita S. Gallin The Politics of Resistance: Working-class Women in Rural Taiwan5. Rebecca Elmhirst Negotiating Land and Livelihood: Agency and Identities in Indonesia's Transmigration P…
Singaporean and British transmigrants in China and the cultural politics of 'contact zones
The international migration of professional workers has increased in scope over the past 20 years as skilled workers are needed when companies’ activities cross national borders. While this trend has been recognised from an economic perspective, much less has been researched from a social and cultural angle. Using case studies of British and Singaporean migration to China, this paper employs a comparative frame to examine the effect of cultural d…
Observations on Transnational Urbanism: Possibilities, Politics and Costs of Simultaneity
Introduction: Fluidity and Friction in Talent Migration
In this introduction to the special issue of JEMS on The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in Asia, we note the movement in the academic literature from a narrow focus on the economic rationalities and corporate logics of transnational mobility among professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites, to a greater interest in these elite transnational subjects as embodied bearers of culture, ethnicity, class and gender. We draw out two key t…
Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia
To return or not to return : the changing meaning of mobility among Japanese Brazilians, 1908-2010 / Koji Sasaki -- Soldier's home : war, migration, and delayed return in postwar Japan / Mariko Asano Tamanoi -- Guiqiao as political subjects in the making of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 / Wang Cangbai -- Transnational encapsulation : compulsory return as a labor-migration control in East Asia / Xiang Biao -- Cambodians go "home" : for…
Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field
Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia
The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian transnational labour migration where remittances tend
Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting
1. Introduction 2. The Work of Forgetting and Remembering Places 3. Urban Political Economy Beyond the 'Global City' 4. Local Memory and Worldly Narrative: The remote city in America and Japan 5. Rural Villages as Socially Urban Spaces in Malaysia 6. Whither Nationalist Urbanism?: Public life in Governor Sutiyoso's Jakarta 7. Debt Restructuring and the Politics of Exclusion: A case study of the Daewoo Motor Bupyeong plants in Incheon, South Korea…
Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility
Typically, scholars approach migrants' religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin. This ethnographic anthology challenges that position by reframing the religious experiences of migrants as a transformative force capable of refashioning narratives of displacement into journeys of spiritual awakening and missionary calling. These essays explore migrants' motivations in support of …
Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations
10.4324/9781315660493
Migrant Workers in Singapore: Lives and Labour in a Transient Migration Regime
Handbook on Transnationalism
Political science (11 works) · asia (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (8 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · emigration and immigration (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works)