Senior Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee participated in the consultation on ‘Navigating Health and Work Challenges: Impact of COVID-19 on Women Migrants and Effective Coping Strategies’ at Monash University Malaysia on 13 March 2025. The consultation is part of the Women RISE WISH Project: Women Migrants’ Health and Work after COVID-19. Dr Koh moderated the second panel which featured representatives from the embassies and high commissions of migrant-sending countries to Malaysia. Read the fuller write-up on the consultation.

IAS Researcher Participates in End-of-Project Workshop Senior Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee participated in the Women RISE End-of-Project Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on 3-5 February 2025. The research team presented preliminary findings from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)-funded project entitled “Women Migrants’ Health and Work after COVID-19: An Intersectional and Comparative Study in Malaysia and Thailand” (WISH).

Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Carnegie recently published a paper in the renowned journal, Pacific Affairs on Contours of Precarity in Southeast Asia.Drawing on observations over several years, combined with a review of relevant literature and the use of illustrative examples, the paper details how and why the concept of precarity is particularly useful for understanding contemporary forms of jeopardy in Southeast Asia. This conceptual shift is arguably crucial for understanding and mitigating vulnerabilities. Rather than relying on limited frames of reference, a grounded and disaggregated precarity perspective can bring greater awareness to localized distress stemming from untrammelled accumulation, extractive activities,…

Senior Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee co-organised the Workshop on Research and Teaching on Migration Mobilities in Southeast Asia with Dr. Alice Nah (Durham University, UK) and Dr. Sharuna Verghis (Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia). The workshop was held on 27 November 2024 at Monash University Malaysia. The participants engaged in interdisciplinary discussions regarding the issues, challenges and possibilities of researching and teaching migration mobilities in Southeast Asia.

Senior Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee participated in the 8th Network of ASEAN-China Academic Institutes (NACAI) International Symposium on 14th November 2024 in Shanghai. The symposium was hosted by the Center for China’s Relations with Neighbouring Countries, Fudan University.

Senior Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee participated in the Belt and Road Initiative and Student-Mobilities in China-Southeast Asia (BRISM) Workshop Meeting held on 22-23 August 2024 at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.Dr Koh is the Country Researcher for Malaysia in this two-year project funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2. The project aims to document the ways China is shaping tertiary education spaces and new circuits of mobility among youths in Southeast Asia. The study employs a cross-disciplinary conceptual and methodological approach to study regional student mobility…

Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Carnegie recently published a new journal article in a special issue of Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal on Disaster, Risk and Conducting Human Security Research in Southeast Asia. By drawing on observations across the region over several years combined with a review of relevant research, the article makes the case for a grounded and disaggregated human security approach for decoding contemporary forms of jeopardy in Southeast Asia. It details how the vulnerability and exposure to disaster of at-risk communities in the region extends beyond random or natural events. This underscores the conceptual and methodological importance of a human security approach to grasp the disaster-prone territories…

Assistant Professor Dr Nobumichi Teramura, with Professor Leon Trakman (UNSW Law & Justice, Australia), published an open access journal article entitled "Confidentiality and privacy of arbitration in the digital era: pies in the sky?" in Arbitration International.  "Abstract: Confidentiality and privacy are essential components of arbitration, preceding the digital data era. This article discusses how arbitration stakeholders—arbitration institutions and associations, arbitrators, attorneys, and commercial users—have increasingly lost control over confidentiality and privacy in international commercial arbitration by adopting digital technologies provided by Internet giants, such as Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, and Zoom. Arbitration institutions and users have, often unconsciously, defined confidentiality…

Senior Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee has recently published an open access article on “Lifestyle migrants’ urban citizenship and right to have rights” in Cities.The article uses the case of the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme during a time of crisis to highlight the scalar tensions in normative understandings of lifestyle migrants’ urban citizenship. In doing so, it challenges empowering and emancipatory accounts of (migrant) urban citizenship.