George Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3809495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Integration Taxes and Gestural Integration
Integration is a contested topic in Singapore’s public discourse. One such area is integration through state-sponsored grassroots community volunteerism. Little is however known about such experiences of grassroots volunteerism to integration outcomes. This paper addresses the gap by exploring how new citizen and permanent resident grassroots volunteers make sense of their experiences through ‘integration taxes' and ‘gestural integration'. In doi…
Political Patronage in Asian Bureaucracies
Political patronage is defined as political actors appointing individuals at their discretion to key positions in the public sector. The book examines this practice in the bureaucracies of 11 Asian countries through the use of a typological framework of patronage types. The framework is based on two key criteria: basis of trust and the major role of political appointees. Several countries with well-developed civil service systems showed minimal l…
Singapore in 2018
“Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is…
Marginalized migrants and urbanization in Southeast Asia
This chapter discusses issues of marginalization in relation to low-wage migrants in Southeast Asia – examines Singapore specifically as a case study. It provides ongoing and previous fieldwork in Singapore with low-wage migrant workers in terms of the empirical material. In Asia, the link between urbanization/urban development and migration is evident both in processes of internal as well as international migration. The chapter explores how stru…
Voices behind the veil
This article critically examines the hijab debate in Singapore by drawing upon the lived experiences of Singaporean Malay-Muslim women whose daily lives are fraught with a constant negotiation between their identities as veiled women and the institutionalized constraints that impede their social mobility and voices in the public arena. Drawing upon publicly accessible data and findings from in-depth interviews with Malay-Muslim nurses, the articl…
No Borders
From the desperate resistance in the Calais Jungle of north-eastern France to the ‘The 300’ hunger strikes in Athens, Greece, Natasha King takes us on a journey into the thick of no-border politics
Professional Notes
The 18th International Conference of IAWE was held December 5-9 at the City University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.It was the first time an IAWE conference has been held in the People's Republic of China.Participants from 30 countries attended
The Ch'i-Shan-Elliot Negotiations Concerning an off-Shore Entrepôt and a Re-Evaluation of the Abortive Chuenpi Convention
Voices behind the veil
This article critically examines the hijab debate in Singapore by drawing upon the lived experiences of Singaporean Malay-Muslim women whose daily lives are fraught with a constant negotiation between their identities as veiled women and the institutionalized constraints that impede their social mobility and voices in the public arena. Drawing upon publicly accessible data and findings from in-depth interviews with Malay-Muslim nurses, the articl…
The Ch'i-Shan-Elliot Negotiations Concerning an off-Shore Entrepôt and a Re-Evaluation of the Abortive Chuenpi Convention
Professional Notes
The 18th International Conference of IAWE was held December 5-9 at the City University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.It was the first time an IAWE conference has been held in the People's Republic of China.Participants from 30 countries attended
Voices behind the veil
This article critically examines the hijab debate in Singapore by drawing upon the lived experiences of Singaporean Malay-Muslim women whose daily lives are fraught with a constant negotiation between their identities as veiled women and the institutionalized constraints that impede their social mobility and voices in the public arena. Drawing upon publicly accessible data and findings from in-depth interviews with Malay-Muslim nurses, the articl…
No Borders
From the desperate resistance in the Calais Jungle of north-eastern France to the ‘The 300’ hunger strikes in Athens, Greece, Natasha King takes us on a journey into the thick of no-border politics
Marginalized migrants and urbanization in Southeast Asia
This chapter discusses issues of marginalization in relation to low-wage migrants in Southeast Asia – examines Singapore specifically as a case study. It provides ongoing and previous fieldwork in Singapore with low-wage migrant workers in terms of the empirical material. In Asia, the link between urbanization/urban development and migration is evident both in processes of internal as well as international migration. The chapter explores how stru…
Singapore in 2018
“Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is…
Political Patronage in Asian Bureaucracies
Political patronage is defined as political actors appointing individuals at their discretion to key positions in the public sector. The book examines this practice in the bureaucracies of 11 Asian countries through the use of a typological framework of patronage types. The framework is based on two key criteria: basis of trust and the major role of political appointees. Several countries with well-developed civil service systems showed minimal l…
Integration Taxes and Gestural Integration
Integration is a contested topic in Singapore’s public discourse. One such area is integration through state-sponsored grassroots community volunteerism. Little is however known about such experiences of grassroots volunteerism to integration outcomes. This paper addresses the gap by exploring how new citizen and permanent resident grassroots volunteers make sense of their experiences through ‘integration taxes' and ‘gestural integration'. In doi…
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)