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Abe’s Choice for Japan: Thriving Migration without Immigration
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2018)
It may be tempting to think that Japan’s demographic trends would provide an incentive
for adopting major immigration policy reforms, but so far, Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe has chosen to tread carefully, calling for massive ...
How to Get Over a Border
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2018)
Safety and survival cannot be guaranteed in getting over borders. The caveat is dependent
on person and place: depending on the citizenship and country of residence of an
actor in question, some of the techniques elaborated ...
Different Hmong Political Orientations and Perspectives on the Thailand-Laos Border
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2018)
Borders mean different things to different peoples. By now this is widely understood
within academia, but there is still the propensity to assume shared essentialized perceptions
of borders amongst groups based on ...
The Chinese Communists Find Religion: The Struggle for the Selection of the Next Dalai Lama
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2018)
Lhamo Thondup was just two years old when he was recognized as the reincarnation
of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. The Great Thirteenth, as he is popularly known, had
died in Lhasa in 1933 at the age of fifty-eight. The team ...
The South China Sea: Where Tiny Rocks Make Big Waves
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2018)
On 1 May 2016, hundreds of angry Vietnamese marched through central Ho Chi
Minh City, upending the meaning of International Workers’ Day. Rather than celebrating
the global brotherhood of labor in its struggle against ...