The Marcos Dictatorship, Historical Remembrances, and Collective Memory Today marks the 30th anniversary of the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos and his authoritarian regime in the…
Movement “Branding” in the Japanese Anti-War Protests While constructing a course syllabus on “Social Movements in East and Southeast Asia,” I have been re-reading some…
Great Books for Summer Reading 2016: Insurgent Migrants Amarasingam, Amarnath. 2015. Pain, Pride, and Politics: Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada. Athens,…
The Nexus of Migrants’ Rights and Diaspora Activism Since the late twentieth century, the debate on transnationalism and assimilation has animated the field of migration…
The Radical Sixties and the Militant Asian Americans Fifty years ago, on March 8, 1965, the U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang, marking the beginning…
Diaspora Mobilization in Democracy Struggles From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Filipinos in the U.S. and the Netherlands became key players in international…
Territorial Disputes and ‘State-Encouraged Protests Last month, a series of protests erupted across Vietnam against the Chinese deployment of an oil rig in the Paracel…