Globalization and Social Transformation in the Asia-Pacific: The Australian and Malayasian Experience [Paperback]

The contributors engage with a range of critical and contemporary issues of two key societies in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia and Malaysia. These include foreign policy and national security; multiculturalism and citizenship; the middle class; global governance; migrants and international students.1. Globalization as Localized Experience, Adaptation and Resistance  an Introduction; Claudia Tazreiter?and Tham Siew Yean PART?I: REGIONALISM, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY 2. Regionalism and Democracy in Asia: the Australia-Malaysia Nexus; Benjamin Reilly 3. Malaysia's Approach to Asian Regionalism in the Context of Expanding Globalization; K.S. Nathan 4. Globalization Transforms the Broad Middle Class; Michael Pusey 5. Responding to Globalization and the State: Negotiations and Contestations by the Middle Class in Malaysia; Abdul Rahman Embong 6. Globalization and Industrial Governance: A View from Australia; Elizabeth Thurbon 7. Liberalization and Domestic Regulation in Malaysia's Services Sector: the Case of the Private Higher Education Sector; Tham Siew Yean PART?II: BELONGING, RIGHTS AND MIGRATION 8. Multiculturalism and Citizenship - the Malaysia Experience; Helen Ting 9. Multiculturalism and Citizenship  the Australian Experience; Geoffrey Brahm Levey 10. An Uncomfortable Fit: Australia's Refugee Policy in a Regional Context; Linda Bartolomei?and Eileen Pittaway 11. Temporary, Precarious and Invisible Labour: Globalized Migrant Workers in Australia; Claudia Tazreiter 12. Irregular Migrants, Human Rights and Securitization in Malaysia: a Policy Perspective; A.K.M Ahsan Ullah 13. Gender Equality and the Regulation of Intimate Relations; Helen Pringle?and Siti Muhammad 14. Reframing Gender: Civil Society and Dissent in Malaysia; Saskia Louise Sch?fer?and Julian C.H. Lee 15. Globalization and Australian International Education; Rogelia Pe-Pua?and Le Nhat Tran 16. Internationalization in Malaysia's Higher Education; Ragayah Haji Mat ZinThis volume has been carefully edilÓ*