In multi-ethnic Malaysia, the Malays are the politically dominant group, although they lag behind the Chinese and Indians in terms of the average income. Their dominant position explains why the question of Malay identity is an issue of national importance. This paper argues that the meaning of...

This contribution examines the management of urban development in two Asian metropolitan regions against the background of globalization. Although there are substantial differences in context, recent developments in both Pune Metropolitan Region in India and Metro Cebu in the Philippines can...

Traditional migration configurations in West Africa have changed in recent years as countries are simultaneously origin, destination and transit for migrants. Aderanti Adepoju discusses how brain circulation, the number of female migrants and trafficking in illegal migrants and refugee flows...

Under Vietnam’s State land ownership regime, the Government holds supreme authority over compulsory land acquisition. The results show that many improvements in land acquisition policies have been made, but poor implementation measures largely cannot prevent or even mitigate the adverse...

This article aims to show that the benefits of international migration (often presented as a ‘global flow’) very much depend on the <em>positionality</em> of the areas involved, as well as the regional particularities. It is argued that countries producing south-north migration or diasporic states...

The potential of migrants to promote poverty reduction and development in their regions of origin – which is generally referred to as the ‘migration and development nexus’ – is a hot topic on the development agenda. Several seminars on this issue have recently been held, such as the 2006...