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My first couple of months in Oslo have been lovely - welcoming colleagues and friendly city. The only blight has been that Singapore Post SingPost CusCare had been holding boxes with our warm clothing for weeks! We’re happy but getting cold!

🌍📢 Call for Visiting Fellows – Spring 2025! Join us for 2-3 months of research collaboration! Open to PostDocs, PhDs, & Master's holders. Apply by Oct 15, 2024! More info & eligibility details: tinyurl.com/ycx7382z

aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/12… Good to hear the Pope amplifying calls that organisations like HOME Singapore and Transient Workers Count Too have been making for decades. Dignity and fair wages for migrant workers!

For IMISCOE Annual Conference 2025 Laavanya Kathiravelu & I are organizing a round table titled “Academic Others” in European Academia: Positionalities & (In)visbilities of migration scholars from outside Europe. Interested colleagues pl reach out to one of us! Reflexivities in Migration Studies - IMISCOE SC Methods in Migration Research (Meth@Mig - IMISCOE)

scmp.com/week-asia/life… People are still doing Blackface in multiracial Singapore today. I comment that without strong legal deterrence this type of reinforcement of power inequalities between racial groups will continue. Thanks to Kimberly Lim 林敏仪 for quoting local activists.

This study in nature addresses an important issue but erases the discrimination experienced by Asians in academia by lumping them in with white academics. And in this way, it elegantly pulls a racism while pointing out racism (1/7) nature.com/articles/s4156…

You mean mass redundancies, the evisceration of entire disciplines, rampant managerialism, and the fanatic embrace of a profit-driven model of scholarship haven't fostered a climate of open inquiry and big ideas? Who could've known?! 🤷‍♂️ theguardian.com/australia-news…

Academic colleagues and IIM alumni, please consider signing the statement in support of Prof. Deepak Malghan. His advocacy for inclusion at IIMs has influenced my, and others' work on caste. It earned him a demotion and harassment. For details, see: forms.gle/dM3VgxQpQxybbH…

Got an accept decision from Ethnic and Racial Studies for my paper “Immigration without Diversity: The invisible second generation in Singapore”!! Excited to publish this first paper from my research with 2nd gen/ children of Asian migrants in Singapore. Watch this space!

KU Leuven is hiring an anthropologist with regional expertise in Asia. Please see the call below, circulate widely, and apply! The call welcomes candidates with undergraduate/ postgraduates degrees obtained in Asia. Deadline, 28 February 2025 kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

Blackface in Singapore again. We need to teach the history and politics of racism in public schools.

If my entire career of research, writing, and teaching only convinces people of one thing, I want it to be how wrongheaded and dangerous this mentality is

@PeichiaLan Minjeong Kim NTU Sociology 台大社會 San Diego State University Yuk Wah Chan CityU Hong Kong #ERSSpecialIssue: The Emerging Second Generation in Asia Immigration without Diversity: The invisible #SecondGeneration in #Singapore Author: Laavanya Kathiravelu Laavanya Kathiravelu Nanyang Technological University NTU Singapore Coming soon! #Race, #Nationalism, #Ethnicity, #Citizenship

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 Laavanya Kathiravelu 's pioneer study deals with the "invisible" second generation in Singapore. This case study demonstrates that even when ethnoracial identity is not marked as a form of difference, inclusion into the framework of the nation can be fraught. Full article:

A call by Singaporean academics for academic freedom in local universities - not a new issue but one that urgently needs to be addressed with growing clampdowns on freedom worldwide. academia.sg/editorials/on-…

Scholars working in Asia, please share widely & apply! Deadline next week kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…