Korea and Taiwan have shown a considerable variation in ensuring women’s rights.  In Taiwan, electoral competition and judicial activism led to institutional reforms on various progressive issues, allowing for an opportunity to generate a pluralistic political structure within which the gender issue could be mobilized along with other progressive agenda. In contrast, the corporatist political […]

While Taiwan’s success at containing COVID-19 is now a familiar story, the pandemic also provides an empirical window for gaining new perspectives on Taiwan’s civil society. This talk will identify the civil society mechanisms in Taiwan that served to demand institutional reforms for enhancing pandemic preparedness and to facilitate discourses of civic inter-dependence among its […]

Adopting Tim Harper’s concept of the diasporic public sphere and Prasenjit Duara’s circulatory history, this presentation shows the circulation of Chinese associations between British Hong Kong and Singapore and their ties with Japanese Taiwan. These bourgeois associations across different colonies responded to Chinese nationalism in mainland China, thus forming the diasporic public spheres. The latter […]

Many countries have recently broadened the definition of skill in recruiting high skilled migrants. As a result, more and more college-educated, albeit inexperienced, workers could opt for overseas careers via skilled worker visa, a development referred to as “middling” skilled migration by migration researchers. This talk discusses the causes and consequences of the significant increase […]