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The caregiving burden of ageing Filipino Australian women in the digital era
New communications technologies have increased the financial burden of Filipino women caring for family abroad.
WEBINAR: Making Southeast Asia’s education systems work
Indonesia, Philippines and Myanmar have widened access to education in recent decades, but there has been little improvement in learning outcomes. Why this is the case?
INTRODUCTION: The politics of social policy in Asia
Asia’s social welfare systems remain underdeveloped and skewed in favour of particular groups, despite rising inequality, ageing populations, labour precarity and rural-urban migration.
Mobilising for press freedom in Duterte’s Philippines: forms and challenges
Media organisations and civil society groups in the press freedom space need to organise fast.
‘Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema’ by Katrina Macapagal
This compelling book examines the depiction of the slums in recent Philippine urban cinema and aims to show slum inhabitants in Manila stake their ‘right to the city’.