As the death of affirmative action showed, Asian American conservatives are active, militant co-conspirators with white conservatives.

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How our culture, politics and technology became infused with a mysterious social phenomenon that everyone can feel but nobody can explain.

How Orientalism and ethnocentric prejudice hijacked a "scientific quest for the truth" behind yellow rain, with unsettling consequences.

'There appears to be a historical misunderstanding at foot, and the idea of what a mestizo was in the Philippine context has been lost'

Dan Clayton looks at a rising tide of martial, dehumanising and manipulative metaphors over asylum seekers and migrants in the UK

Russians haven't risen up and overthrown their government like some of their neighbors. No, not because something is wrong with them.

Whereas American narratives focus on the individual, the Blackfoot way of life offers an alternative of a community that leaves no one behind

Stay woke: How a Black activist watchword got co-opted in the culture war.

While it started labour export as a stop-gap measure, the Philippine government now aggressively exports Filipinos. Labour migration has helped address the short-term needs of migrant families and the economy, and has benefitted migrant-receiving countries, local elites and the government, but also poses serious long-term problems to migrants, Filipinos, and the country.

Some claim it's a Chinese-dominated govt, but numbers show otherwise.

This article traces the progress of women’s rights in Malaysia by reference to law reforms between 2017 and 2022, from the position of a civil society organisation (CSO) advocating for those reforms and using a gender-focused lens.

Fears that the fall of the Islamic State’s caliphate in Iraq and Syria and the return of the Afghan Taliban would give rise to a new wave of terrorism in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have proven largely unfounded.

Historically disenfranchised, they are denied aid and equal protection.

Even as globalization accelerates trans-global and supra-territorial connections, matrices of prejudice and stereotypes about 'the other' from past centuries remain, in old and new forms. This fact is borne out daily in crisis regions where ethnicity, migration, and the history of colonial and imperial adventure have left their legacies, including the Balkans. Various contemporary processes stimulate the appearance of new figures and stereotypes for ‘others’ on local, national, regional, international, and global levels.