[Publication] Irasec-Observatory / Occasional Paper n°03.

Informal and illegal movement in the upper greater mekong subregion
Costs and benefits of informal networks for goods and people
by Lynn Thiesmeyer

Irasec-Observatory, Occasional Paper 03, November 2010, 144 pages.
ISBN: 978-616-90282-8-4
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Cross-border migration and trafficking are, once again, the focus of intense scrutiny in Southeast Asia. There is a very rapidly increasing number and frequency of informally and illegally migrating persons and the goods they transport and consume. The area of the present research, undertaken during 2009, is currently known as the Quadrangle (Quadripartite) Economic Cooperation Zone, or the Golden Quadrangle. It has been targeted as a special economic cooperation zone, comprising Yunnan Province of China, Luang Nam Tha Province of Northern Laos, Shan State of Northern Myanmar, and Chiang Rai Province of Northern Thailand. The scope of this localisation of small-scale manufacturing and production, and of its logistics—cross-border informal and illegal transport—is vast. The goods surveyed in this research were agriculture products, including herbicides, fertilisers, and pesticides whose contents were unknown or clearly toxic beyond the regionally-agreed standard; there is special reference to illegal logging and timber trafficking from the same regions.  The research team consisted of five individuals: the present author, an environmental chemist from Japan, one environmental chemist from Taiwan, a social scientist from Taiwan, and an economist from Myanmar.

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Indonesia: The Dark Side of Jama’ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT)

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP - NEW BRIEFING
Indonesia: The Dark Side of Jama’ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT)

Brussels/Jakarta, 6 July 2010 : Divisions and ideological debates generated by Jama’ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT), an organisation founded by Indonesia’s best-known radical cleric, Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, show the weakness of Indonesia’s jihadi movement.
Indonesia: The Dark Side of Jama’ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT),* the latest briefing from the International Crisis Group, examines the many facets of JAT, an ostensibly above-ground organisation whose inner circle has had and continues to have ties to fugitive extremists. It has been in the spotlight since May when three of its officials were accused of helping finance a terrorist training camp in Aceh.
“JAT has a public face, advocating full implementation of Islamic law, condemning democracy as illegitimate and preaching jihad”, says Sidney Jones, Crisis Group’s Senior Adviser. “That face gives ‘plausible deniability’ to the involvement of senior JAT officials in more covert activities”. She notes that Lutfi Haedaroh alias Ubeid, arrested while fleeing the Aceh camp, was on JAT’s executive council.
JAT was founded in 2008 as a vehicle for Abu Bakar Ba’asyir’s absolute leadership. In fact Ba’asyir’s insistence on full decision-making authority within JAT makes it unlikely that involvement of senior officials in clandestine activities could have taken place without his approval. The briefing examines JAT’s structure and ideology and analyses the disputes that have erupted between JAT and other radical organisations, including Jema’ah Islamiyah (JI), exemplifying not only the fractures in the jihadi movement but also Ba’asyir’s own declining influence.
There is no indication that violent extremism is gaining ground in Indonesia, even though the constant shifting and realignment of groups will undoubtedly produce more terrorist plots in the future. “We are seeing the same old faces finding new packages for old goods”, says Jim Della-Giacoma, South East Asia Project Director. “Recruitment continues, but there’s more community pushback”. Ba’asyir was refused permission by the local Islamic council to speak in Banten province last month.
The truth is that the jihadi project in Indonesia has failed. The far bigger challenge for the country is to manage the aspirations of those who joined JAT for its public, non-violent message: that democracy is antithetical to Islam; that only an Islamic state can uphold the faith; and that Islamic law must be the source of all justice.

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Conference : U. C. Berkeley / UCLA Conference on Southeast Asia Studies

Space, Movement and Place in Southeast Asia
University of California, Berkeley / UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies

April 2 - 3, 2010

Keynote speaker : Prof. Rodolphe De Koninck, University of Montreal

Full program available at : http://cseas.berkeley.edu/.../SpaceMovementPlace2010ConfProgram.pdf

The Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA form a consortium U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

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UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
11274 Bunche Hall
P.O. Box 951487
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
Telephone : 310-206-9163
Fax: 310-206-3555
www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/

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Colloque des IFRE - Dynamiques démographiques et migrations

Colloque des IFRE 2010 - deuxième édition

Un monde en mouvement. Enjeux politiques et migrations
Musée du quai Branly

Mardi 5 et Mercredi 6 Janvier 

Organisé par le Ministère des affaires étrangères et européennes et la Direction générale de la mondialisation, du développement et des partenariats.

En consultation avec la cellule de valorisation des IFRE (Instituts Français de Recherche à l'Étranger), la Direction Générale de la Mondialisation, du Développement et des Partenariats du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et Européennes a souhaité que le deuxième colloque du réseau des IFRE qui se tiendra les 5 et 6 janvier 2010 dans le théâtre Claude Lévi-Strauss du Musée du Quai Branly soit consacré au thème Dynamiques démographiques et migrations.

Même si la question de la mobilité, et de sa reconnaissance comme un droit humain fondamental pour tous, se pose de nos jours avec force, ses origines remontent bien au-delà des XIXème et XXème siècles, qui ont vu le nombre de ces déplacements s'accroître et les distances parcourues s'étendre dans des proportions prodigieuses...

Mardi

11h - 13h : Les Questions de Transit - "Quand des pays d’émigration accueillent de nouveaux migrants".

                Modérateur : Laurent Fourchard (Fondation nationale de sciences politiques, Bordeaux, Centre d’études d’Afrique noire).
                Jean-François Pérouse, maître de conférences à l’Université de Toulouse-II, associé à l'IFEA (Istanbul).

                Turquie depuis le milieu des années 1990.
                Michel Péraldi, directeur du Centre Jacques Berque pour le développement des sciences humaines et sociales (Rabat, Maroc)

                La nouvelle condition migrante, subsahariens au Maroc et au Maghreb.
                Adeline Braux, doctorante à Sciences po Paris, Centre franco-russe de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales de Moscou.

                Les politiques diasporiques des États du Sud-Caucase.
                Aurélia Wa Kabwe-Segatti, Institut de recherche et de développement, exdirectrice de l’IFRAS.

                South Africa’s post-Apartheid migration policy, « transit » and continental politics.
14h30 – 16h : Frontières et réfugiés - "Les réfugiés dans le contexte de l'identité régionale".

                Modérateur : Yvon le Bot (CNRS, EHESS).
                Géraldine Châtelard, chercheur à l’IFPO (Amman, Jordanie) et Kamel Doraï, chargé de recherche au Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Institut français du Proche-Orient (Damas, Syrie)

                Les réfugiés irakiens au Moyen-Orient. La prise de décision migratoire
                Cédric Parizot, chargé de recherche au CNRS, CFRJ (Jérusalem)

                Économie de la séparation et faiseurs de frontière entre Israël et les territoires palestiniens (1994-2009).

                Rémy Madinier, chargé de recherche au CNRS, IRASEC (Jakarta)

                L’émigration indonésienne en Malaisie. Enjeux religieux, culturels et politiques contemporains.

                Jacques Ivanoff, chargé de recherche au CNRS, IRASEC (Bangkok)

                Populations en mouvements. Les frontières en Asie du Sud-Est. Espaces de reconstruction identitaire et nouvelles routes migratoires.

                Marie-Carmen Macias, géographe pensionnaire au CEMCA (Mexico).

                Jeux et enjeux d’une mobilité transfrontalière à contrecourant à la frontière Mexique-États-Unis.

16h15 - 18h30 : Politiques publiques - "Différentes manières pour les pays d’émigration et d’accueil de gérer les flux migratoires".

                Modérateur : Serge Weber (Université Paris-Est).

                Marc-Étienne Lavergne, directeur du CEDEJ (Égypte ; Soudan)
                L’Égypte. Nouveau paradigme d’une émigration de survie
                Claire Beaugrand, doctorante en relations internationales, London School of Economics, Centre français d’archéologie et de sciences sociales de Sanaa
                Politiques de non-intégration dans les monarchies du Golfe : précurseur ou survivance dans le contexte de mondialisation.
                Hélène Thiollet, chargé de cours à l’École des hautes études commerciales, Maison française d’Oxford
                Réfugiés ou migrants ? Le HCR et la gestion de la mobilité internationale.
                Basudeb Chaudhuri, Centre de sciences humaines (New Delhi) et Velayoudom Marimoutu, IFP (Pondichéry).
                Le marché de l’éducation et des ressources humaines en Inde. Implications pour les flux migratoires internes et externes.
                Olivier Tourny, chargé de recherche au CNRS, CFRJ (Jérusalem)
                Chanter Dieu pour préserver son identité en Israël. Le cas particulier du judaïsme éthiopien.

Mercredi

9h30 – 12h30 : Intégration - "Intégration ou ségrégation des nouveaux arrivants".
                Modérateur : Christian Lechervy (Direction de la prospective, MAEE)

                Ariane Jossin et Carsten Keller, Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin)
                Stratégies de participation de jeunes d’origine étrangère à Paris et à Berlin
                Mathieu Plésiat, doctorant en sociologie au CEFRES de Prague.
                La question de la migration des Tsiganes tchécoslovaques depuis 1989 dans la perspective de l’après-nomadisme.
                Christine Ludl, IFRAS, University of the Witwaterstand et Élise Palomares, Université de Rouen, chercheur associé à l’URMIS
                Mobilités africaines et recompositions urbaines postapartheid
                Michel Adam, Institut français de recherche en Afrique (IFRA, Nairobi)
                Les minorités d’origine indo-pakistanaises en Afrique orientale
                Marc Humbert, directeur de la maison franco-japonaise (Tokyo)
                La réticence historique japonaise vis-à-vis des populations allogènes.
                Bayram Balci, directeur de l’IFEAC
                Mouvements migratoires entre la Turquie et les Républiques turcophones du Caucase et d’Asie centrale. Impacts religieux

14h – 16h30 : Table-ronde de clôture - "Les nouveaux enjeux théoriques et politiques".

                Animée par Jean-Luc Racine (CNRS, FMSH)

                Catherine Witold de Wenden, (CNRS, Sciences po, Paris),
                Maurice Aymard (EHESS), William Berthomière (CNRS, Migrinter),
                François Gemenne (Sciences Po, Paris), François Héran (INED)
                Stéphane Hessel (Ambassadeur de France). 

Programme en ligne

Invitation en ligne (pdf

Plus d'informations : Sur le site de l'IFRE et Sur le site du Musée du Quai Branly .

 

Appel à contributions : Conférence - U. C. Berkeley et UCLA

 

Call for Papers 
Space, Movement and Place in Southeast Asia
U.C. Berkeley and UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies to be held at the University of California, Berkeley
April 2-3, 2010

Spatial relations in Southeast Asia have long underpinned, stimulated and framed key works on political organization in the region, from Stanley Tambiah’s ‘galactic polity’ to to Thongchai Winichakul’s ‘geo-body’ to Benedict Anderson’s ‘imagined communities’ to James C. Scott’s ‘zomia’. This conference proposes to re-examine these formulations, while exploring new research and new understandings about space, landscape and human impact in Southeast Asia. In other words, What applications can be adapted from these kinds of formulations for contemporary urban formations, regional alliances and transnational identifications? How have colonial pasts informed spatial presents? How does gender inform the planning and practice of city, rural and temple life? What new aspects of human activity and life can be accessed and interpolated into theoretical understandings of space in Southeast Asia?

We invite submissions for presentations from scholars and graduate students conducting original research in the social sciences and humanities that address the primary themes of the conference. We are particularly interested in papers that examine the dynamic interaction of concept and practice; material and ideal.

Specific topics or categories suggested for presentations include the following:

* Performance traditions and adaptations in cultural space
* Architecture, urban planning and the production of space
* Artistic traditions and aesthetic conceptions of place and landscape
* Transmission of religious theology and ritual practice
* Conflicts over access to land for cultivation, forestry and conservation, industrial agriculture and otheruses
* Local economies and integrated trading networks (riverine, overland, seas)
* ‘Illegal’ trade across borders and space (trafficking,piracy)
* Migration and migrant diasporas
* Maps, marginality, boundaries and the state
* Past histories and the production and control of space and territory
* Populations, disease and regimes of public health
* The public sphere and public space
* Families, households and domestic space
* Transnational popular culture in a digital age

Special guest speakers to be announced. The conference will be held on the UC Berkeley campus. 

Abstracts

(up to 500 words) should be sent to CSEAS at UC Berkeley by Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Abstracts should include your name, affiliation and discipline and contact information (including e-mail address). Notification to those whose papers have been selected will be made by Friday, February 12, 2010

       Final papers will be due by Monday, March 22, 2010. Papers must be in English.

Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes. AV equipment will be available for Powerpoint and other visual presentations.
Unfortunately, the conference organizers are not able to offer travel support to presenters, with a few exceptions for presenters from U.C. campuses. 

Contact:

Center for Southeast Asia Studies, 2223 Fulton St., No. 617, Berkeley CA 94720
– 2318; Tel: (510) 642-3609; Fax: (510) 643-7062; E-mail: cs...@berkeley.edu.

The Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA form a consortium U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center for Southeast Asian Studies

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UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
11274 Bunche Hall
P.O. Box 951487
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
Telephone: 310-206-9163
Fax: 310-206-3555
Email: cs...@international.ucla.edu
Website: www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/