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‘This COVID life’ .. in pictures

We’re collecting a series of images from our wonderful contributors illustrating ‘this COVID life’.

Failing to Engage: The Politics of Diaspora Policy in Australia

  • Professor Andrew Rosser,

A diaspora policy could help Australian businesses compete in Asia and help Australia recover from the pandemic.

INTRODUCTION: Transnationalism, diaspora and the migration-development nexus in Asia and Australia

  • Professor Andrew Rosser and Associate Professor Yan Tan,

The impacts of transnational linkages and diaspora are huge and include trade and investment, livelihoods for poor people, and migrant workers’ rights.

WEBINAR: Human rights and democratic regression in Asia

Three experts on human rights and civil society discuss the situation in two countries which have seen recent democratic regression, Thailand and Myanmar, as well as the use of forced disappearances.

INTRODUCTION: Questions and challenges for civil society and human rights in Asia

  • Dr Anthony J. Spires,

As elsewhere, many societies in Asia have recently witnessed the rapid rise of populists and democratic regression.

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