Research Cluster on Global Flows and Asian Integration

Research Cluster on Global Flows and Asian Integration Convenor: Edsel L. Beja, Jr., PhD

An interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research cluster, GLOBAL FLOWS and ASIAN INTEGRATION is for faculty members from any discipline of the School of Social Sciences who are interested in examining the trans-national movements of people, goods, and ideas. It is also for faculty members who are interested in examining several attempts at Asian integration. The two concepts – global flows and Asian integration -- may be treated separately but may also be treated as two aspects of the globalization process. This is because as movements of people, goods and ideas proceed globally, nation-states have attempted to form bigger units such as the European Union (EU) and the ASEAN, as well as the more inclusive Asia-Pacific Economic Organization (APEC), in order to face the challenges of globalization.

Utilization of approaches commonly used in the social science disciplines and the comparative approach in any discipline (comparative politics, comparative sociology, etc) is encouraged. Hence, even though a research may be about Asian integration, a comparative analysis of any Asian organization with another non-Asian organization, such as the EU, is possible. Units of analysis may be any country, any Asian region, any regional organization, as well any international organization, as long it is relevant to Asia.

Examples of research topics in this cluster are migration, including one of its obvious results, which is the phenomenon of nation-states with multicultural population, or its illegal aspects, such as human trafficking; trade, including bilateral trade, free trade agreements, and economic partnership agreements; ideas and ideologies such as the so-called Asian values and ASEAN way; trans-national environmental concerns such as air pollution, water pollution, radiation, communicable diseases; organizational arrangements such as ASEAN, the ASEAN Community, the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement; issues resulting from ambiguous national boundaries, such as territorial disputes, fishing rights disputes, and water-use disputes; and many more various topics.

Faculty members are encouraged to do individual research as well as joint or group research. They are also encouraged to consider deadlines for application for research load when formulating their research design.

For inquiries, please email the convenor: [email protected]

Members:

Carmel V. Abao Edsel L. Beja Jr. Patricia Irene N. Dacudao Noel de Guzman Melissa Lao Joseph Lim Diana J. Mendoza Meynardo P. Mendoza Marissa Paderon Ellen Palanca Marilou Perez Emma E. Porio Rosalina Tan Daisy See

Isabel Melgar

Sample Publications:

Abao, C.V. 2013. Labor Code for Overseas Filipino Workers: Necessary but Insufficient. Interrogating Migration: New Questions and Emerging trends in the Philippines ed. J.V. Tigno, 7-27. QC: Philippine Migration Research Network and Philippine Social Science Council.

Aguilar Jr., F.V. 2013. Brother's keeper? Siblingship, Overseas Migration, and Centripetal Ethnography in a Philippine Village. Ethnography, 14(3), 346-368.

Dumlao, L.F. 2012. The Relationship between Dynamic Price and Dynamic Unemployment: the Case of Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. International Journal of Economic Perspectives, 6(3), 256-278.

Dumlao, L.F. 2013. Gross International Reserves: Accumulation, Management, and Relation to Debt. Philippine Review of Economics, 50(1), 1-22.

Jose, L.N.Y. 2013. Le destin croise des Philippines et du Japon, Philippines contemporaines, ed. William Gueraiche, 385-405. Paris: Les Indes Savantes; Bangkok: IRASEC.

Jose, L.N.Y. Dealing with Japan in the Age of Globalization, PJEPA: Strengthening the Foundation for Regional Cooperation and Economic Integration, Vol. 1, ed. E.M. Medalla, 63-70. Makati: Philippine Institute for Development Studies and Philippine APEC Study Center Network, 2012.

Jose, L.N.Y. 2012. Japan's soft power viewed through the lens of the Philippines' commemoration of historical events. Philippine Political Science Journal, 33(2), 146- 160. Lao, M.E.J. 2013. Are Local Governments Ready for Migration? Interrogating Migration: New Questions and Emerging trends in the Philippines ed. J.V. Tigno, 28-41. QC: Philippine Migration Research Network and Philippine Social Science Council.

Syson, M.B., Estuar, M.R.E., See, K.T. 2012. ABKD: Multimodal mobile language game for collaborative learning of Chinese Hanzi and Japanese Kanji characters. Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012, Article number 6511699, 311-15.

Cabiles, N.A.S. 2012. Hedging Illiquidity Risk through Securitization: Evidence from Loan Commitments. Journal of Business and Policy Research, 7(4), 53-72.