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1. Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

   Edited by Tai-Chee Wong, Jonathan Rigg

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase...

   Published August 19th 2010 by Routledge
2. Southeast Asian Development

   Edited by Jonathan Rigg

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   The eleven countries that make up the Southeast Asian region provide a rich and diverse context in which to view the development process and experience. The region spans different cultural contexts, colonial experiences, and economic experiments, and is home to some of the world’s most successful...

   Published October 9th 2007 by Routledge
3. An Everyday Geography of the Global South

   By Jonathan Rigg

   Taking a broad perspective of livelihoods, this book draws on more than ninety case studies from thirty-six countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America to examine how people are engaging and living with modernity. This extends from changes in the ways that households operate, to how...

   Published June 20th 2007 by Routledge
4. Living with Transition in Laos

   Market Intergration in Southeast Asia

   By Jonathan Rigg

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Laos - the Lao People's Democratic Republic - is one of the least understood and studied countries of Asia. Its development trajectory is also one of the most interesting, as it moves from state, or perhaps more appropriately subsistence, to market. Based on extensive original research, this book...

   Published August 24th 2005 by Routledge
5. Southeast Asia

   The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development, 2nd Edition

   By Jonathan Rigg

   The growth economies of Southeast Asia are presented by the World Bank and others as exemplars of development - 'miracle' economies to be emulated. How did the region attain such status? Are the 'other' countries of Southeast Asia able to achieve such a rapid growth? This book charts the...

   Published October 23rd 2002 by Routledge
6. Southeast Asia

   The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development

   By Jonathan Rigg

   Published May 28th 1997 by Routledge