Global Asia and the Global Economic Crisis: A Workshop

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 the region and its global linkages. Attention will be given to vulnerabilities and adaptation within market integration processes as well as to comparisons with the 1997 Asian financial crisis and other periods of significant economic instability.

Wednesday, 8 April
9am to 12:15 pm
280 York Lanes
York University

All are welcome

Panel One | (9 to 10:45am)

Integration into Unstable Global Markets: The Agrarian Sector in Thailand
- Peter Vandergeest (York, Sociology)

Bangladesh and Global Markets: Low Integration Protects, but High Export Dependence may Hurt
- Afsan Chowdhury (YCAR Research Associate)

From Asian Financial Crisis to Global Economic Crisis: Comparing the Recession Experiences of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Southeast Asia
- Lorna Wright (York, Schulich School of Business)

China's Urban Social Groups Face the Crisis: New Institutions, New Outcomes?
- Steve Trott (University of Toronto, Political Science)

Panel Two | (11am to 12:15pm)

The Aging Korean Tiger and the Global Economy: Living Longer, Working Longer and Earning Less
- Thomas Klassen (York, Political Science)

Economic Recessions, Immigrant Employment, and Financial Remittances: Examining the Connections through the Experience of Filipino Immigrants in Toronto
- Philip Kelly (York, Geography)

India in the Global Economic Crisis
- Ananya Mukherjee Reed (York, Political Science; Visiting Scholar, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore)

This event is hosted by the *York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR).

For further information, contact YCAR at ycar@yorku.ca or 415.736.5821
or visit www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/global_asia.html

York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR)
York University
Ste. 270, York Lanes, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON Canada M3J 1P3
Telephone: 416 736 2100 ext. 44068
Fax: 416 736 5688
ycar@yorku.ca