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Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS)

Globalisation, Mobility and Development

Convenor: Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
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This research program examines the impact of globalisation on development at the local, national, and regional levels. Research projects are currently organised into several major themes:

• Globalisation and Education: Research that examines the intersection between globalisation and education, including work on transnational education, international markets in education, the internationalisation of vocational and postsecondary education, language and literacy policy and curriculum issues in South and South East Asia, and higher education policy and reform in the Asia Pacific.
• International Agencies and Development NGOs: inter-related projects that provide in-depth case studies of international agencies, regional bodies, international labour regimes, non-government organisations, and international environmental and human rights bodies.
• Social Impact Analysis: projects that examine how communities sustain themselves ecologically, culturally and economically, and how individuals and communities maintain, challenge or transform state and transnational forces.
• Environmental Change: projects monitor and evaluate the increasing productive and economic growth in the Asia Pacific region and how this impacts the local and global environment, focusing on how to introduce positive environmental change through local initiatives.
• Labour Migration, Regulation and Work: a group of inter-linked projects examining the development of labour regimes in both colonial and post-colonial societies.
• Bordered Exclusions: projects that examine how formulations of identity and citizenship along border zones intersect with gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality in shaping experiences of mobility and exclusion.
• Democracy and human rights: projects that explore processes of democratisation, including human rights and women's rights activism.