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Title Megacities, labour & communications / edited by Toh Thian Ser
Published Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, [1998]
©1998

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 MELB  339.095 Ser/Mla  AVAILABLE
Description xxi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents From megacity to constellation city / Liu Thai-Ker -- Los Angeles and New York / Akhtar Badshah -- Sustaining India's megacities / Om Prakash Mathur -- International migration and alien labour employment / Azizah Kassim -- U.S. migration policy in the context of global labour flows / Gary P. Freeman -- The ethical dimensions of the new media / Bernardo M. Villegas and Albert S. Velasco -- Information in the age of the internet / Sanford J. Ungar -- Drivers of the global flow of communications / N. Vittal
Notes Papers originally presented at the Conference on India, Southeast Asia and the United States : New Opportunities for Understanding and Cooperation, 31 January-1 February 1997, Singapore, and organized by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Society and Rajiv Gandhi Foundation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also issued online
Subject Foreign workers -- Malaysia.
Foreign workers -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses.
Cities and towns -- Growth.
Cities and towns -- Asia -- Growth -- Congresses.
Cities and towns -- United States -- Growth -- Congresses.
Communication -- International cooperation -- Congresses.
Communication, International.
Community development -- Southeast Asia.
Community development -- United States.
Emigration and immigration -- Congresses.
Metropolitan areas -- Asia.
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Toh, Thian Ser.
Asia Society.
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.
Conference on India, Southeast Asia and the United States : New Opportunities for Understanding and Cooperation (1997 : Singapore)
LC no. 98945610
ISBN 9813055979 (hard)
9813055987 (paperback)
Other Titles Megacities, labour, and communications