...C. Julia Huang Is the concept of the NGO, or nongovernmental organization, a global catchall? This article tries to respond to the globalization of the concept of NGO by tracing the historical and local development of a Taiwanese grassroots Buddhist organization, the Buddhist Tzu Chi (Ciji...

...Fiona I. B. Ngô; Mimi Thi Nguyen; Mariam B. Lam In the introduction to the special issue, Ngô, Nguyen, and Lam argue that Southeast Asian American studies can model both epistemological and ontological inquiries about the circulation of, the negotiation with, or challenges to the knowledge regimes...

... theater scene introduced him to the labor NGO and community cultural center Migrant Workers Home in the urban village Picun in Beijing. Sakurai's collaborators suggested that the suburban village-in-the-city, populated by rural migrant workers, would be a performance venue that fit the Japanese director's...

..., exploitation, alienation. To counter the pressures of this life, he wrote poetry. In 2016 he settled in Picun, a village on the outskirts of Beijing made famous by an NGO called the Migrant Workers Home. The Home aims to advance migrant workers’ social identification through cultural education. To this end...

...-­protection cause. It is noteworthy that most of the conservative NGOs responsible for the institution and the continued amendments of the above-­mentioned legisla- tion originally came into existence as charity or social service groups orga...

... the Neoliberal Bottle: Neoliberal Critique and Urban Change in China .” Eurasian Geography and Economics 58 , no. 3 : 297 – 315 . Franceschini Ivan . 2014 . “ Labour NGOs in China: A Real Force for Political Change? ” China Quarterly , no. 218 : 474 – 92 . Friedmann John . 1986...

... for the purpose. The two representatives I worked with from the local nongovernmental orga- nization (NGO) that had organized the visit looked on. Tri sat patiently, perplexed at the gaggle of strangers crowding his room, still drowsy from...

... War, even though bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem was her brother- in- law, not her husband. As an outspoken advocate for women’s rights in Viet Nam and against the United States’ intervention in the war, she engaged with the US public...

... of China's best-known nongovernmental organizations on workers’ rights, and one that aims to expand these rights through the promotion of culture. Amid the blossoming of labor NGOs in the first decade of the twenty-first century (Chan K., Qiu, and Zhu 2006 ; Chan C. 2013 ; Fu 2017 ; Howell 2019 , 2021...

... members of progressive civic groups. This he achieved by mobilizing part- nerships between governmental organizations (GOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) when the government responded to the crisis. He expanded government...

... the 2004 tsunami (Stirrat 2006). Such com- petition recognizes the institutional and bureaucratic dimensions of global Shih ∣∣ Consumption and Commerce across Human-Trafficking Rescue 773 social action and critiques the “NGO-­ization” of global development...

... work, which was initially geared toward supplementing the state, is thought of as organizational, collaborat- ing with international NGOs, relying on foreign aid, it will interfere with intellectual work, which is more long term, geared toward...

... that I see among many NGO organizers. For them, you come to the village, and they say, “It’s too hard for you here; there is no flushing toilet, the food is very simple, and you will have to sleep on the floor.” They feel that somehow you have “come...

... claim to state power, the institutions of global governance like the United Nations, the World Bank, and the multitude of nongovernmental organi- zations (NGOs) that they sustain, seek to link and disseminate what Dra- inville calls “global...

... nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Taiwan and Korea have attempted to empower marriage migrants through financial support from the central government. Foreign brides began to be regarded as “new citizens” with diverse values and foreign backgrounds, not as “immigrants” (Iwai 2013 ; M. Kim 2013...

... College of the Arts. vietle.net Fiona I. B. Ngô is assistant professor of Asian American studies and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Ngô’s scholarship concerns the remains of war...

... of a nongovernmental organization (NGO), to “adopt the baby” (i.e., give the baby for adoption). The child was adopted almost a year later by a well-­off expatriate couple in Hong Kong. Mia imagined the child would live in a fancy home, have...

... between Cynthia — a middle-­class NGO (nongovernmental organization) activist investigating Maricris’s case — and Alvin — a bureaucrat from the OWWA (Overseas Workers Welfare Administration) of the Philippine state...

... Fund, and the World Bank as well as the horizontally networked nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Echoing other recent critiques, Hardt and Negri pinpoint the “moral instruments” of power in the just wars that NGOs conduct without arms...

... activity in question. What may have once been coherently oppositional, as in Beijing in 1989 or Chicago and Paris in 1968, or is now a predictably reformist, neoliberal, nongovernmental organization (NGO), is neither coherent nor particularly...