Organizer: Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
Type/Location: Virtual
Description:
This webinar focuses on how the growing economy in Southeast Asia changed labor relations. The talk looks at what kind of marginalization and who is marginalized amid the growing economy of Southeast Asia. The changing labor issues in southeast Asia from the past to the present will be discussed to predict what will happen in the future.
About the speakers:
Dr. Hwok Aun Lee is a Senior Fellow with the Malaysia Studies Programme and Regional Economic Studies Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. He was previously a senior lecturer in development studies at the University of Malaya. He is the author of Affirmative Action in Malaysia and South Africa: Preference for Parity (Routledge, 2021), and he has written many articles. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Hindun Anisah is a women’s rights activist. Her support for women's rights, including female migrant workers' rights, led to her appointment to the Presidential Task Force for the Handling of Indonesian Citizens Facing the Death Penalty Abroad in 2011-2012. Since 2019, Hindun has served as a Special Staff Member to the Indonesian Minister of Manpower.
Dr. Amporn Jirattikorn is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science and Development at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin, in 2008. She was a Harvard-Yenching Institute Scholar from 2022–2023. Amporn’s research interests are in two areas: media flows and mobility of people across national boundaries. One area focuses particularly on the movement of Shan migrants from Myanmar into Thailand.
About the moderator:
Dr. Abdul Haque Chang is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences and Liberal Arts Department at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi. Dr. Chang completed his doctoral studies from University of Texas at Austin in 2015.
Registration link:
To attend this event online, please register here.