Diana Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3760377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Moving the Migration Frontier
The New Chinese Migration is frequently contrasted to the earlier 19 th century mass migrations in terms of its origins (urban vs rural), migrant types (students and professionals vs coolies) and destinations (developed vs developing countries). A significant component of this new migration from the PRC however, continues to originate from the qiaoxiang – the emigrant‐sending areas of the 19 th century migrations. Based on an extensive review of …
A “Double Alienation”
Scholarship on Christianity in Malaysia has been dominated by denominational church history, as well as the study of urban, middle-class and English-speaking church congregations in the post-Independence period. In focusing on the vernacular Chinese Protestant church in Malaysia, and one of its most prominent para-church organisations, called The Bridge, this paper draws attention to the variegated histories of Christian conversion and disseminat…
Travelling faiths and migrant religions
In this article, we propose conceptual and methodological tools to study religion in motion and make an analytical distinction between two types of religious movement - travelling faiths and migrant religions. Travelling faiths are religious movements with universal claims around which a religious community forms (deterritorialized religions). They travel in order to proselytize. Migrant religions travel within the local ethnic confines of the mi…
Time, generation and context in narratives of migrant and religious journeys
Taking migration as the point of departure and biographical narratives as the entry to the formation of the religious self and the texture of religious life, I draw from four key narratives - one each from the Christian, Islamic, Hindu and Chinese religious/Buddhist traditions - to examine how religion intersects with migration in migrant and religious journeys. I conceptualize migration as an intergenerational process, transcending the physicali…
Introduction
Looking for a Life‘ Rohingya Refugee Migration in the Post-Imperial Age
Comment on Hanasaki Kohei
Transience and Settlement
Foreigners constitute 15 percent of the population and over 20 percent of the labor force in Singapore. They are bifurcated into the highly-skilled, high end as well as the unskilled, low end of the labor market. This large foreign labor force is managed by a comprehensive and highly selective foreign labor policy, which is described in this paper. The strict enforcement of a guestworker policy of transience on the one hand, and the liberal encou…
Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore
This paper discusses the regulatory and economic context of Filipina migration into domestic waged labor in Singapore. It places this migration in the history of female rural-urban migration as well as the history of domestic labor in Singapore. Finally, it raises the question as to why domestic waged labor has persisted in the global capitalist economy
Regionalism in the Asia‐Pacific — a response to Kanishka Jayasuriya
This paper is a response to the debate generated in the special issue of The Pacific Review on ‘Ideas, policy networks and international policy coordination in the Asia‐Pacific’. It suggests that an understanding of the discourses and practices of regionalism in the Asia‐Pacific has to be based on a broader account of societal discourses and a sharper delineation of the policy process specific to the region
Post-and Pre-Modern Ambiguities
This paper argues for an acceptance of the post-modernist postulate of without its misappropriation as a methodological licence for anything goes. Taken as a serious challenge to rethink fundamental premisses of social thought, post-modernist scholarship would allow for a much-needed reconstruction of the concept of the social based on difference rather than identity. The view that ambiguity is an inexcusable methodological flaw derives from what…
Asylum as a Relationship of Otherness
In this paper, it is argued that the analysis of the experience of exile and asylum should be located on a double axis of presence and absence, as well as in the medium of time, both in its quantitative and qualitative aspects. The point of departure for the analysis is a rejection of the integration problematic prevailing in the sociology of migration, employing in its stead the perspective of the relationship of otherness as a heuristic device.…
The Semantics of Migration
Peasants in the Making. Malaysia's Green Revolution
Peasants in the making
Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore
This paper discusses the regulatory and economic context of Filipina migration into domestic waged labor in Singapore. It places this migration in the history of female rural-urban migration as well as the history of domestic labor in Singapore. Finally, it raises the question as to why domestic waged labor has persisted in the global capitalist economy
Transience and Settlement
Foreigners constitute 15 percent of the population and over 20 percent of the labor force in Singapore. They are bifurcated into the highly-skilled, high end as well as the unskilled, low end of the labor market. This large foreign labor force is managed by a comprehensive and highly selective foreign labor policy, which is described in this paper. The strict enforcement of a guestworker policy of transience on the one hand, and the liberal encou…
Travelling faiths and migrant religions
In this article, we propose conceptual and methodological tools to study religion in motion and make an analytical distinction between two types of religious movement - travelling faiths and migrant religions. Travelling faiths are religious movements with universal claims around which a religious community forms (deterritorialized religions). They travel in order to proselytize. Migrant religions travel within the local ethnic confines of the mi…
Asylum as a Relationship of Otherness
In this paper, it is argued that the analysis of the experience of exile and asylum should be located on a double axis of presence and absence, as well as in the medium of time, both in its quantitative and qualitative aspects. The point of departure for the analysis is a rejection of the integration problematic prevailing in the sociology of migration, employing in its stead the perspective of the relationship of otherness as a heuristic device.…
Moving the Migration Frontier
The New Chinese Migration is frequently contrasted to the earlier 19 th century mass migrations in terms of its origins (urban vs rural), migrant types (students and professionals vs coolies) and destinations (developed vs developing countries). A significant component of this new migration from the PRC however, continues to originate from the qiaoxiang – the emigrant‐sending areas of the 19 th century migrations. Based on an extensive review of …
Time, generation and context in narratives of migrant and religious journeys
Taking migration as the point of departure and biographical narratives as the entry to the formation of the religious self and the texture of religious life, I draw from four key narratives - one each from the Christian, Islamic, Hindu and Chinese religious/Buddhist traditions - to examine how religion intersects with migration in migrant and religious journeys. I conceptualize migration as an intergenerational process, transcending the physicali…
Regionalism in the Asia‐Pacific — a response to Kanishka Jayasuriya
This paper is a response to the debate generated in the special issue of The Pacific Review on ‘Ideas, policy networks and international policy coordination in the Asia‐Pacific’. It suggests that an understanding of the discourses and practices of regionalism in the Asia‐Pacific has to be based on a broader account of societal discourses and a sharper delineation of the policy process specific to the region
The Semantics of Migration
Introduction
Peasants in the making
Peasants in the making
The Semantics of Migration
Peasants in the Making. Malaysia's Green Revolution
Asylum as a Relationship of Otherness
In this paper, it is argued that the analysis of the experience of exile and asylum should be located on a double axis of presence and absence, as well as in the medium of time, both in its quantitative and qualitative aspects. The point of departure for the analysis is a rejection of the integration problematic prevailing in the sociology of migration, employing in its stead the perspective of the relationship of otherness as a heuristic device.…
Regionalism in the Asia‐Pacific — a response to Kanishka Jayasuriya
This paper is a response to the debate generated in the special issue of The Pacific Review on ‘Ideas, policy networks and international policy coordination in the Asia‐Pacific’. It suggests that an understanding of the discourses and practices of regionalism in the Asia‐Pacific has to be based on a broader account of societal discourses and a sharper delineation of the policy process specific to the region
Post-and Pre-Modern Ambiguities
This paper argues for an acceptance of the post-modernist postulate of without its misappropriation as a methodological licence for anything goes. Taken as a serious challenge to rethink fundamental premisses of social thought, post-modernist scholarship would allow for a much-needed reconstruction of the concept of the social based on difference rather than identity. The view that ambiguity is an inexcusable methodological flaw derives from what…
Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore
This paper discusses the regulatory and economic context of Filipina migration into domestic waged labor in Singapore. It places this migration in the history of female rural-urban migration as well as the history of domestic labor in Singapore. Finally, it raises the question as to why domestic waged labor has persisted in the global capitalist economy
Transience and Settlement
Foreigners constitute 15 percent of the population and over 20 percent of the labor force in Singapore. They are bifurcated into the highly-skilled, high end as well as the unskilled, low end of the labor market. This large foreign labor force is managed by a comprehensive and highly selective foreign labor policy, which is described in this paper. The strict enforcement of a guestworker policy of transience on the one hand, and the liberal encou…
Comment on Hanasaki Kohei
Looking for a Life‘ Rohingya Refugee Migration in the Post-Imperial Age
Introduction
A “Double Alienation”
Scholarship on Christianity in Malaysia has been dominated by denominational church history, as well as the study of urban, middle-class and English-speaking church congregations in the post-Independence period. In focusing on the vernacular Chinese Protestant church in Malaysia, and one of its most prominent para-church organisations, called The Bridge, this paper draws attention to the variegated histories of Christian conversion and disseminat…
Travelling faiths and migrant religions
In this article, we propose conceptual and methodological tools to study religion in motion and make an analytical distinction between two types of religious movement - travelling faiths and migrant religions. Travelling faiths are religious movements with universal claims around which a religious community forms (deterritorialized religions). They travel in order to proselytize. Migrant religions travel within the local ethnic confines of the mi…
Time, generation and context in narratives of migrant and religious journeys
Taking migration as the point of departure and biographical narratives as the entry to the formation of the religious self and the texture of religious life, I draw from four key narratives - one each from the Christian, Islamic, Hindu and Chinese religious/Buddhist traditions - to examine how religion intersects with migration in migrant and religious journeys. I conceptualize migration as an intergenerational process, transcending the physicali…
Moving the Migration Frontier
The New Chinese Migration is frequently contrasted to the earlier 19 th century mass migrations in terms of its origins (urban vs rural), migrant types (students and professionals vs coolies) and destinations (developed vs developing countries). A significant component of this new migration from the PRC however, continues to originate from the qiaoxiang – the emigrant‐sending areas of the 19 th century migrations. Based on an extensive review of …
Political science (13 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (4 works)