We begin with the issue of "borders, logistics, and unequal lives” in the time of COVID-19 as an introduction to extend the series of research projects.
The first five-year ICCS project, “Unequal Citizens and Legal Reform in the Inter-Asian Context” (2018-2022), has discussed the theme of “Conflict, Justice, and Decolonization” to understand the crux of the problem from the scene of social conflict from the perspective of transnational migration and labor mobility. Our shared concerns include the different forms of social conflict and inequality in third-world countries within the global context. We paid particular attention to the issues of refugees, mobile laborers, stateless persons, and human trafficking under mass migration. We discussed the formation of severely excluded discrimination, oppression, and violence as expressed in laws and institutions in different societies. However, the international labor migration under globalization constantly faces exploitation, forced labor, and human trafficking, particularly in Asia-Pacific.
The second five-year project (2023-2027) will focus on analyzing the forced labor risks in the global supply chain and addressing effective practices for eliminating forced labor, including law enforcement strategy. Our project will continue to deepen the transnational cooperation with research institutions, research scholars, and non-governmental organizations to develop more significant contributions to labor rights and access to justice for migrant workers, stateless populations, and undocumented workers. We orient our project toward a critical legal study in terms of empirical cases and emancipatory articulation of particular fundamental concepts, including citizenship.
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Podcast Host: Professor Pan Mei-Lin, Economic Sociologist, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung UniversityPodcast Speaker: Dr Gyalo, Tibetan activist, educational sociologist, and a leading expert on China's assimilation and education policies in TibetOverview of the PodcastIn this podcast, we hosted Professor Pan Mei-Lin from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University alongside Dr. Gyal Lo, a Tibetan activist, educational sociologist, and preeminent authority on China's assimilation and education policies in Tibet. They engaged in a comprehensive discussion regarding China’s educational development policies in Tibet and its implications for the future of Tibetan society and identity. The podcast comprises two episodes. The first episode explores Dr. Gyal Lo's journey to becoming an educational sociologist, the historical context of the traditional Tibetan education system, and its transformation following the establishment of Chinese rule in Tibet. The second episode examines the development of the education system under President Xi Jinping's leadership, with both experts critically analyzing the recent emergence of colonial boarding schools in Tibet.在本期播客中,我們邀請了國立陽明交通大學人文社會科學系潘美琳教授和西藏活動家、教育社會學家、中國西藏同化和教育政策的權威專家 Gyal Lo 博士。他們就中國在西藏的教育發展政策及其對西藏社會和認同的未來的影響進行了全面的討論。該播客包含兩集。第一集探討了傑洛博士成為教育社會學家的歷程、傳統西藏教育體系的歷史背景以及中國統治西藏後教育體系的轉變。第二集探討了習近平主席領導下的教育體系的發展,兩位專家批判性地分析了西藏最近出現的殖民寄宿學校。Podcast is supported by National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, International Center for Cultural Studies, Sub-project III Migration, Unequal Citizens, and Critical Legal StudiesPowered by Firstory Hosting
Podcast Host: Professor Pan Mei-Lin, Economic Sociologist, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung UniversityPodcast Speaker: Dr Gyalo, Tibetan activist, educational sociologist, and a leading expert on China's assimilation and education policies in TibetOverview of the PodcastIn this podcast, we hosted Professor Pan Mei-Lin from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University alongside Dr. Gyal Lo, a Tibetan activist, educational sociologist, and preeminent authority on China's assimilation and education policies in Tibet. They engaged in a comprehensive discussion regarding China’s educational development policies in Tibet and its implications for the future of Tibetan society and identity. The podcast comprises two episodes. The first episode explores Dr. Gyal Lo's journey to becoming an educational sociologist, the historical context of the traditional Tibetan education system, and its transformation following the establishment of Chinese rule in Tibet. The second episode examines the development of the education system under President Xi Jinping's leadership, with both experts critically analyzing the recent emergence of colonial boarding schools in Tibet.在本期播客中,我們邀請了國立陽明交通大學人文社會科學系潘美琳教授和西藏活動家、教育社會學家、中國西藏同化和教育政策的權威專家 Gyal Lo 博士。他們就中國在西藏的教育發展政策及其對西藏社會和認同的未來的影響進行了全面的討論。該播客包含兩集。第一集探討了傑洛博士成為教育社會學家的歷程、傳統西藏教育體系的歷史背景以及中國統治西藏後教育體系的轉變。第二集探討了習近平主席領導下的教育體系的發展,兩位專家批判性地分析了西藏最近出現的殖民寄宿學校。Podcast is supported by National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, International Center for Cultural Studies, Sub-project III Migration, Unequal Citizens, and Critical Legal StudiesPowered by Firstory Hosting
Logistical rationality of migration management: Forced human mobility and immobility in the age of pandemic-The CHCI Global Humanities Institute 2020 has implemented different webinar series on the topic of “Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in the Global context” which this tripartite structure, “migration, logistics and unequal citizens,” are the pressing question that our institute would like to address. In the series, speakers tried to address the geopolitical and historical conditions behind the practice of the lockdown during COVID-19.Chasing back to the history, the state of the migrant workers are used to be neighbouring countries in the same kingdom during the C commerce period, now become excluded and separated as “enemies” or “slaves”. Since ‘the citizenship could be differentiated in a post-colonial state-building process’,As one of the speakers, Liu, suggested, it is necessary to push forward for new concepts or reconceptualize the common sense of citizenship, to protect the people who live and work there and they should enjoy equal access to essential space. Furthermore, she reminds us that we need to expose the colonial power and theoretical produce behind the lockdown and the civil war mentality. Last but not least, the notion of common needs to be reinvented with the alternative logistics for the common.Powered by Firstory Hosting
Borders of an Epidemic-The CHCI Global Humanities Institute 2020 has implemented different webinar series on the topic of “Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in the Global context” which this tripartite structure, “migration, logistics and unequal citizens,” are the pressing question that our institute would like to address. In the series, speakers tried to address the geopolitical and historical conditions behind the practice of the lockdown during COVID-19.Chasing back to the history, the state of the migrant workers are used to be neighbouring countries in the same kingdom during the C commerce period, now become excluded and separated as “enemies” or “slaves”. Since ‘the citizenship could be differentiated in a post-colonial state-building process’,As one of the speakers, Liu, suggested, it is necessary to push forward for new concepts or reconceptualize the common sense of citizenship, to protect the people who live and work there and they should enjoy equal access to essential space. Furthermore, she reminds us that we need to expose the colonial power and theoretical produce behind the lockdown and the civil war mentality. Last but not least, the notion of common needs to be reinvented with the alternative logistics for the common.Powered by Firstory Hosting
The “New Normal” of whom? Critical thinking on border hardening and (re)nationalism in the age of COVID-19 Pandemic-The CHCI Global Humanities Institute 2020 has implemented different webinar series on the topic of “Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in the Global context” which this tripartite structure, “migration, logistics and unequal citizens,” are the pressing question that our institute would like to address. In the series, speakers tried to address the geopolitical and historical conditions behind the practice of the lockdown during COVID-19.Chasing back to the history, the state of the migrant workers are used to be neighbouring countries in the same kingdom during the C commerce period, now become excluded and separated as “enemies” or “slaves”. Since ‘the citizenship could be differentiated in a post-colonial state-building process’,As one of the speakers, Liu, suggested, it is necessary to push forward for new concepts or reconceptualize the common sense of citizenship, to protect the people who live and work there and they should enjoy equal access to essential space. Furthermore, she reminds us that we need to expose the colonial power and theoretical produce behind the lockdown and the civil war mentality. Last but not least, the notion of common needs to be reinvented with the alternative logistics for the common.Powered by Firstory Hosting