Chinese Women and the Cyberspace

This volume examines how Chinese women negotiate the Internet as a research tool and a strategy for the acquisition of information, as well as for social networking purposes. Offering insight into the complicated creation of a female Chinese cybercommunity, Chinese Women and the Cyberspace discusses the impact of increasingly available Internet technology on the life and lifestyle of Chinese women-examining larger issues of how women become both masters of their electronic domain and the objects of exploitation in a faceless online world. University of Hong Kong

Learning analytics for the global south

Learning Analytics for the Global South is a compilation of papers commissioned for the Digital Learning for Development (DL4D) project. DL4D is part of the Information Networks in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (INASSA) program funded jointly by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada and the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom, and administered by the Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development (FIT-ED) of the Philippines. DL4D aims to examine how digital learning could be used to address issues of equity, quality, and efficiency at all educational levels in developing countries. Over the past two years, DL4D has brought together leading international and regional scholars and practitioners to critically assess the potentials, prospects, challenges, and future directions for the Global South in key areas of interest around digital learning. It commissioned discussion papers for each of these areas from leading experts in the field: Diana Laurillard of the University College London Knowledge Lab, for learning at scale; Chris Dede of Harvard University, for digital game-based learning; Charalambos Vrasidas of the Centre for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology, for cost-effective digital learning innovations; and for learning analytics, the subject of this compilation, Dragan Gašević of the University of Edinburgh Moray House School of Education and School of Informatics. Each discussion paper is complemented by responses from a developing country-perspective by regional experts in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Learning Analytics for the Global South considers how the collection, analysis, and use of data about learners and their contexts have the potential to broaden access to quality education and improve the efficiency of educational processes and systems in developing countries around the world. In his discussion paper, Prof. Gašević articulates these potentials and suggests how learning analytics could support critical digital learning and education imperatives such as quality learning at scale and the acquisition of 21st century skills. Experts from Africa (Paul Prinsloo of the University of South Africa), Mainland China (Bodong Chen of the University of Minnesota, USA and Yizhou Fan of Peking University, People’s Republic of China), Southeast Asia (Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines), and Latin America (Cristóbal Cobo and Cecilia Aguerrebere, both of the Ceibal Foundation, Uruguay) situate Prof. Gašević’s proposals in their respective regional contexts, framing their responses around six key questions: 1. What are the main trends and challenges in education in your region? 2. How can learning analytics address these challenges? 3. What models of learning analytics adoption would be most effective in your region? 4. What are the barriers in adoption of learning analytics in your region and how could these be mitigated? 5. How do you envision ethical use and privacy protection in connection with learning analytics being addressed in your region? 6. How can the operationalization of learning analytics be futureproofed in your region? We hope that this compilation will serve as a springboard for deeper conversations about the adoption and sustained use of learning analytics in developing countries – its potential benefits and risks for learners, educators, and educations systems, as well as the ways to move forward that are rigorous, context-appropriate, ethical, and accountable.This work was created with financial support from the UK Government’s Department for International Development and the International Development Research Centre, Canada. The views expressed in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the UK Government’s Department for International Development; the International Development Research Centre, Canada or its Board of Governors; the Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development; or the editors

Reframing Singapore: memory - identity - trans-regionalism

Table of contents: 1 Introduction / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied and Derek Heng REFRAMING THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE 2 From Political Rhetoric to National History: Bi-Culturalism and Hybridisation in the Construction of Singapore’s Historical Narrative / Derek Heng Thiam Soon 3 Gateway and Panopticon: Singapore and Surviving Regime Change in the Nineteenth-Century Malay World / Koh Keng We 4 Beyond the Rhetoric of Communalism: Violence and the Process of Reconciliation in 1950s Singapore / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied 5 The Politics of Fires in Post-1950s Singapore and the Making of the Modernist Nation-State / Loh Kah Seng 6 Gender and Discipline in ‘The Singapore Story’: The Female Chinese Factory Workers in Perspective, c. 1980-c. 1990 109 / Ernest Koh LOCATING IDENTITIES ACROSS BORDERS 7 Textualising the Baba Identity: Insights into the Making of a Bibliography / Bonny Tan 8 Negotiating Identities, Affiliations and Interests: The Many Lives of Han Wai Toon, an Overseas Chinese / Sharon Wong Wai Yee 9 Singaporean First: Challenging the Concept of Transnational Malay Masculinity / Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford 10 Trans-National Biographies and Trans-National Habiti: The Case of Chinese-Singaporeans in Hong Kong / Caroline Plüss SINGAPORE AS TRANS-REGIONAL CONDUIT 11 Indian Media and the Lure of ‘Uniquely Singapore’ / Faizal bin Yahya and Arunajeet Kaur 12 Localising the Global and Globalising the Local: The Global Households of Filipina Trans-Migrant Workers and Their Singapore Employers / Janet M. Arnado 13 Raffles Hotel Singapore: Advertising, Consumption and Romance / Chris Hudson 14 The Role of Recruitment Agencies for Japanese Working Women in Singapore / Yoshimichi YuiDeze verzameling van essays over Singapore houdt de geschiedenis en huidige ontwikkelingen van deze stadstaat tegen het licht. Met een multidisciplinaire benadering kijken de auteurs nog eens kritisch naar de Singaporese geschiedenis om zo beter zicht te krijgen op de uitdagingen waar het land en zijn bewoners op dit moment voor staan

Successful Return Migration : A Study of Reintegration Experiences of Filipino Permanent Returnees

Successful return migration is not to be defined based on theories nor by standards and parameters set by societies, institutions and agencies. It is to be conceived from the lived experiences of migrants who have successfully returned to their country of origin. Using transcendental phenomenology, this study determined the essences of the phenomenon of successful permanent return migration by analyzing the lived experiences of thirty Filipino migrant returnees. This study found out that the migrant returnees attached various meanings to their successful return to the Philippines. Successful return meant for them fulfillment of set goals for migration, accomplishments upon return in the Philippines, bouncing back from difficulties and attaining a better life than they had before migration, 'professional success', attainment of peace of mind, contented and happy life in their home country, helping other migrants and other people in need and gaining recognition because of these engagements, and self-transformation from being migrant workers to becoming accomplished individuals. Key actions undertaken by the migrant returnees (which were the exact opposite of actions of unsuccessful returnees) and important proximate social circumstances (specific personal experiences and relationships) contributed to their successful return. Drawing from the experiences of the Filipino successful returnees, four elements that constitute the phenomenon of successful return migration were identified, namely, 1) migrants with strong sense of purpose and resolve; 2) migration and return migration experiences; 3) meanings of successful return; and 4) key processes, actions and circumstances

Migration and Integration. Common Challenges and Responses from Europe and Asia

With the signing of the ASEAN Framework Agreement for the Integration of Priority Sectors (FA) in 2004, migration and integration issues gained significance on the agenda. Primarily concerned with increasing economic growth, this framework excludes the integration of low and unskilled migrant workers; instead, ASEAN efforts to address migration and integration issues have been limited to Mutual Recognition Agreements for skilled labour and professionals. After an analysis of migration policy in the region, we highlight specific barriers to the integration of labour migrants in two priority sectors – nursing, which is highly regulated by the state, and Information, Communications and Technology (ICT), which is typically selfregulated and privately run. Despite a MRA for nursing allowing registered nurses to practice in another ASEAN country under supervision of local nurses without registering with the host country’s nursing regulatory authority, in practice, there are major barriers to the free movement of nurses within ASEAN in terms of skills recognition, licensure requirements and other protectionist measures. Although regulations governing the inflow of ICT professionals are not as stringent as those for healthcare professionals, private costs associated with job search and gaining foreign employment are higher in the ICT sector, largely due to limited information on international mobility within the industry. Three sets of barriers to greater integration are discussed. First, the economic and political diversity within ASEAN makes integration more problematic than in the European Union. Second, the primary concern with value-adding economic growth means that regional agreements are focused on skilled and professional labour migration only. Third, the “ASEAN way” of doing things – via a strong emphasis on consensus and non-interference with domestic policies – often means that the FA provision for the free movement of labour is usually trumped by domestic policies that do not reflect the same desire for labour integration

Reframing Singapore

History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Sociology; EconomicsDeze verzameling van essays over Singapore houdt de geschiedenis en huidige ontwikkelingen van deze stadstaat tegen het licht. Met een multidisciplinaire benadering kijken de auteurs nog eens kritisch naar de Singaporese geschiedenis om zo beter zicht te krijgen op de uitdagingen waar het land en zijn bewoners op dit moment voor staan

Reframing Singapore

History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Sociology; Economic

Globalisation and Skills for Development in Rwanda and Tanzania

International Development,

South-South Migration and Sino-African Small Traders: A Comparative Study of Chinese in Senegal and Africans in China

China is today also becoming an important economic migration  destination. Immigrants in China are from different continents and have settled for various reasons: study, work, business or trade. China’s  economic boom, trade liberalisation and modernisation have attracted many African migrants. The growing presence of African traders in China’s ‘city markets’ and Chinese traders in African cities change global trade and migration patterns. If large number of Africans regularly travel to China (due to better connectivity between Chinese and major African cities), some have decided to immigrate to Guangzhou and Yiwu for trade and business purposes, thus adding to the traditional migration pattern a dimension – from almost exclusively South-North to also South-South. This paper is centred on a comparative analysis of Sino-African traders in Senegal and China. The purpose of the study is to see how migration patterns have expanded from South-North to South-South (particularly in the case of Sino-African relations) that today is the mainstream of international migration. It explores the composition, background, profile, business organisation and networks of Chinese traders in Africa (Senegal) and African traders (including traders from North Africa) in China (Yiwu).Drawing on interviews, group discussion and participant observation in Yiwu, China, and Dakar, Senegal, it shows that there are increasing flows of Chinese traders in Senegal and African traders in China related to the growing relations between China and African countries during the past decades. They contribute to boosting Sino-African trade volume and are part of South-South trade and migration phenomenon. Through their trade activities, they contribute to socio-economic development in their home and host country.Keywords: South-South cooperation, trade, migration, China, Africa, small traders, trade networks, socio-economic developmen

Vietnamese women marriage migrants in South Korea: A study of their sense of well-being in the process of their settlement

The purpose of this study is to understand the experience of the Vietnamese women marriage migrants overcoming difficulties in the process of settlement in South Korea through international marriage, and to suggest the directions for achieving a stable settlement by maintaining their sense of well-being, based on the factors overcoming their difficulties. For this purpose, the research question in this study was set as: 'To what extent do the resources of Vietnamese women marriage migrants against the challenges in their settlement to South Korea influence their sense of well-being?' I applied the phenomenological method of Giorgi and Schütze’s biographical narrative interview method to analyse the interview data in the qualitative research methodology. Participants of this study, the Vietnamese women marriage migrants, were found to have the curiosity and desire to live in a new country free from the reality of difficult family situations and a poor society, and they chose international marriage with great anticipation and longing for South Korea. However, they have gone through many difficulties during their settlement process. Two factors are crucial: Without enough information on their marriage migration, and their family’s strong opposition, led to their worries about international marriage before migration. Even after migration, they spent the time of pregnancy, childbirth and child care without the help of their husbands under the influence of their mothers-in-law who showed an authoritarian style within their family. Outside their family, they were discriminated against and ignored by South Koreans with added inconveniences caused by the unfamiliar surroundings and their limited communication. The factors that overcome the difficulties and maintain their sense of well-being in the settlement process, are found in four aspects: internally, externally, transnationally, and demographically. The results of this study provide in-depth data not only to understand the experiences of the Vietnamese marriage migrants, but also to expand support programmes and centres for their stable settlement in South Korean society