The Cost of Protection: Rethinking the Philippine State and Its Regional 'Proactive' Labor Migrant Protection Standards in the Gulf (1974-2024) When the 1970s oil boom emerged in the Gulf region, Asian labor- sending states strategically implemented labor export policies to exploit regional labor shortages and support long-term economic growth amid their financial crises.
Roundtable discussion: Comparing the partitions - India and Palestine 1947/1948 The recently published volume The Breakup of India and Palestine, examines the international and national circumstances of these decisions.
'I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter’s Memoir' Join us for a discussion on Mai Serhan's memoir, detailing her search for connection with her estranged father, her family’s past, and the Palestinian homeland she can never visit.
RSAA and SOAS annual presentation on Asia for sixth form students 2025 The Royal Society for Asian Affairs and SOAS University of London invites school students to attend a day of talks about several aspects of Asia.
Resisting disinformation: theorising whole-of-society and sociotechnical resistance through the Taiwan case Mariah Thornton gives a talk on Taiwan’s whole-of-society resistance to transnational disinformation and its democratic innovations.
Violence against women, migration law, and regimes of exception At a time of intensifying border governance and mounting backlash against migrants’ and women’s rights, how do legal systems respond when violence is experienced under conditions of precarious status?