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"As the Asia-Pacific region develops in economic strength and influence in the twenty-first century, a deeper understanding of the differences and commonalities among the countries of this region is needed. Australia and Malaysia share the Asia-Pacific region with powerful neighbours such as China and Indonesia, as well as small fledgling democracies such as Timor Leste. This timely volume compares these two societies on key issues and tensions relating to globalization and social transformation, including foreign policy and national security; multiculturalism and citizenship; the middle class; global governance; migrants, human rights and international students. The contributors explore the contested and lively debates that emerge through the expanded mobility of ideas and people in this so-called 'Asian Century'"--
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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 Schäfer 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 Zin
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"This volume has been carefully edited to ensure authors address historical as well as contemporary issues, and consider the perspectives of other nations. It offers a welcome clarification of social transformations shared, but distinctive, between near neighbours on both international and local scales. Readers will find clear arguments for local considerations as the Asia region expands its influence and its interpretation of globalizing processes." (Nancy Pollock, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 90 (2), June, 2017)
