Utilising a sample of Asian firms from Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore,
this study shows that increasing numbers of female directors on the board have a positive …

Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention
on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the …

Until the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the
androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have …

Research on women in leadership positions has largely focused on the board or top
management team (TMT) leadership level, showing that increased female representation at …

Increasing numbers of independent women labor migrants leave countries in the Global
South every year to work overseas. However, our understanding of how exactly gender and …

This exploratory study seeks to understand childhood in Hong Kong in relation to the high-
rise living environment and dominant parenting culture among middle-class professionals …

Growing levels of national unemployment constitute one of the Arab Gulf's key domestic
policy challenges and not least because the majority of new jobs will need to be created in …

Offering a theology of migration, Cruz reflects on the Christian vision of'one bread, one body,
one people'in view of the gifts and challenges of contemporary migration to Christian …

The idea of 'soft authoritarianism', as a general description of many Asian societies, can be
defined as a political system in which there are minimal components of democracy such as …

The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies
from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female …