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/ba.ca/ with New Naratif: Lost Childhood — Children in Malaysia’s Immigration Detention Centres

In today’s Community Corner, let’s revisit /ba·ca/ with New Naratif’s Lost Childhood: Children in Malaysia’s Immigration Detention Centres. In this session, we invited our community to engage in a discussion with Joshua Low, New Naratif’s Forced Migration Researcher, who elaborated on his two explainers on the child immigration detention centres in Malaysia.

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/ba.ca/ with New Naratif: Fostering Queer Communities in Southeast Asia Event Recap

In today’s Community Corner, let’s revisit /ba·ca/ with New Naratif’s Fostering Queer Communities in Southeast Asia, a Pride month special featuring Asmara S. Wigati, a visual artist and anthropologist from Indonesia, and Shaleen Chrisanne, a queer-affirming clinical psychologist based in Malaysia.

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Democracy Classroom: Inequality in Singapore Event Recap

In this Democracy Classroom event, we gathered with Singaporeans to discuss the results of The Citizens’ Agenda Singapore 2022, led by PJ Thum, historian and Managing Director of New Naratif. In this session, Singaporeans addressed the issue of inequality as one of their greatest concerns.

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/ba.ca/ with New Naratif: Feminism as a Tool for Democracy in Southeast Asia Event Recap

In today’s Community Corner, let’s revisit /ba·ca/ with New Naratif’s Feminism as a Tool for Democracy in Southeast Asia. Led by Thet Wai, Gender Rights Researcher at New Naratif, this /ba.ca/ session highlighted the importance of feminism in forwarding democratic rights in Southeast Asia.

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Democracy Classroom by New Naratif: ‘The Philippines’ Dangerous Dependence on the Exploitation of its People’ Event Recap

For this installment of New Naratif’s Democracy Classroom, our community engaged in a discussion with Teo S. Marasigan, the author of The Philippines’ Dangerous Dependence on the Exploitation of its People, on Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and how the phenomenon has affected the Philippines and its citizens.

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/ba.ca/ with New Naratif: The Philippines’ Exploitation of Overseas Filipino Workers Event Recap

For the fourth instalment of /ba·ca/ with New Naratif, our community heard from and discussed with researcher and activist, Teo S. Marasigan, and Migrante International Chairperson, Joanna Concepcion, about Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and the forces at play that allow for this phenomenon to continue despite the economic and humanitarian issues it has caused time and time again.

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