Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region (International Studies of Women Andplace) - Hardcover

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Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Professor (Provost's Chair), Department of Geography, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. She is also the Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, NUS, and coordinates the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and post-colonial cities; and gender, migration and transnational communities. She has published over a dozen books ranging from Contesting Space: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment in Colonial Singapore (Oxford University Press, 1996; reissued Singapore University Press, 2003) to more recently Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts (ISEAS press, 2012, with Lai Ah Eng and Francis Collins).

Peggy Teo was formerly Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore.

Shirlena Huang is an Associate Professor of Geography and a Vice Dean at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on issues at the intersection of transnational migration and gender (particularly labour migration and transnational families within the Asia-Pacific region), as well as urban redevelopment and heritage conservation.