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Melbourne Asia Review is an initiative of the Asia Institute. Any inquiries about Melbourne Asia Review should be directed to the Managing Editor, Cathy Harper.

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INTRODUCTION: Gender, the environment and migration: ‘safety and belonging’ in and around Asia

  • Professor Claire Maree,

This edition offers potential new frameworks to explore how gender impacts mobility and feelings of belonging and safety in and around Asia.

Echoes of future past: The continued hyper-securitisation of Islam and Muslims

  • Dr David Tittensor,

What is the current place of Islam in the imaginary of Australia and other nations given that it continues to be securitised more than 20 years after 9/11?

INTRODUCTION: The politics of social policy in Asia

  • Professor Andrew Rosser,

Asia’s social welfare systems remain underdeveloped and skewed in favour of particular groups, despite rising inequality, ageing populations, labour precarity and rural-urban migration.

Is social policy now a well-established but ‘new’ form of economic development?

  • Dr Adam Fforde,

Economies such as Vietnam are growing in ways that shift economic activity to services rather than manufacturing.

The struggle for universal healthcare in Asia

  • Azad Singh Bali,

There is a tendency to assume a lack of money is the main barrier to achieving universal healthcare. But there are a range of other issues.

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