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Workshop | Wednesday, 8 April 2009 | York University
Location: 28 York Lanes, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto Programme Integration into Unstable Global Markets: The Agrarian Sector in Thailand From Asian Financial Crisis to Global Economic Crisis: Comparing the Recession Experiences of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Southeast Asia China's Urban Social Groups Face the Crisis: New Institutions, New Outcomes?
Steve Trott (University of Toronto, Political Science)
Panel II (11am to 12:15pm) Economic Recessions, Immigrant Employment, and Financial Remittances: Examining the Connections through the Experience of Filipino Immigrants in Toronto |
The workshop will focus on the global economic crisis and its impacts on Asia and Asian diaspora, with an emphasis on livelihoods, social policy, and labour markets. Presenters will reflect on the unfolding crisis in terms of our understanding of longer-term processes of social, economic, and political change in East, Southeast and South Asia. Attention will be given to vulnerabilities and adaptation within market integration processes as well as to comparisons with previous periods of significant economic instability, such as the 1997 Asian financial crisis.