Contestation and exclusion in Asian urban spaces under the impact of globalization : an introduction / Jonathan Rigg and Tai-Chee Wong -- International and intra-national migrations : human mobility in Pacific Asian cities in the globalization age / Tai-Chee Wong -- The migrant as a nexus of...

From the welfare state's origins in Europe, the idea of human welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and policy-makers around the world. This is particularly influential where rapid social development is...