Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
What does the history of 19th century Chinese coolie migration offer to present day debates on labor exploitation? Dr. Lisa Yun will examine the 19th century Chinese coolie migration to the Americas, focusing on its relevance and connection to contemporary debates regarding the nature of transnational indenture, slavery, and trafficking today. One contemporary example is … Read more
Edited by the 2011 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor, Russell C. Leong, this edition of the CUNY Bulletin of Asian American / Asian Studies features highlights from past issues of the Bulletin from 2002 to 2008, recent conferences on New York City politics and the Asian American community, a list of AAARI’s top online videos, … Read more
Asian Community Block Upwardly Global Upwardly Global is a new non-for-profit organization that was borough to New York to serve the nearly 35,000 under-employed immigrant professionals who live in the New York Metro area. In their home country they were bankers, accountants, teachers, marketing managers, and lawyers; in the U.S., they are nannies, security guards, … Read more
One of the forecasted side effects of anthropogenic climate change is rising sea levels. Two factors contribute to this effect: expansion of the oceans due to rising temperatures, and increased melting of land-locked glaciers and ice sheets. Recent radar measurements from Greenland indicate that ice discharge into the North Atlantic is accelerating. What does this … Read more
In this presentation, I will accurately and visually reveal how exactly Japan’s economy has come to a condition it is in today. That is, as we all know, the “Lost Decade of Deflationary Trap.” Most of us are not aware that the country that has recorded the lowest real GDP growth in the last decade … Read more
The discussion will revolve around the author’s most recent book, entitled Backwaters of Global Prosperity: How Forces of Globalization and GATT/WTO Trade Regimes Contribute to the Marginalization of the World’s Poorest Nation. New York: Praeger Publishers. The book provides a penetrating analysis of the particular elements of globalization in general and the global trade regime … Read more