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April 2020
From Fear to Resilience: Let’s Change the Narrative of COVID19 in Southeast Asia
Call for Photo, Short Video and Art Essays by SEA Junction and Partners
These days we are inundated with photos of deaths, ICUs and suffering, creating fear as an incentive to keep us all at home. No matter how well-meaning, this narrative of COVID-19 remains one-sided and may have many unwanted consequences. We know from the HIV epidemic that fear only changes behavior in the short term and it may cause traumas and prejudices that make it more difficult to learn to live with the virus. This narrative also leads to seeing the…
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The Mekong is Blue and Dried: Visual Storytelling of the Mekong River’s Environmental Degradation Open Call for Photo & Art Essays
The Mekong River is the most diverse in fresh water fishery in the world with the greatest biodiversity after the Amazon. It originates in the Tibetan plateau and flows through mainland Southeast Asia before emptying in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta into the South China sea. The Mekong feeds more than 60 million people who live along its entire route. Among them there are indigenous communities that depend on the Mekong for their natural resource-based livelihoods and as a source of income.…
Find out more »September 2020
Call for Proposals, Small Grant Program “Staying Resilient Amid the Pandemic in Southeast Asia”
In Southeast Asia, the spread of COVID-19 has been relatively slow when compared to other regions. With the exception of the Philippines and Indonesia, the number of seriously ill and death cases remain in the two digits. This, however, does not implies that the pandemic should be taken lightly nor that the health, economic and political impacts are insignificant. Like in other parts of the words, human suffering is real, with a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable. The pandemic…
Find out more »December 2020
Photo Exhibition “The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migrant Workers” by Mekong Migration Network and SEA Junction
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on people’s lives around the world. Migrants in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) are among the most vulnerable to the present upheaval, given their limited access to healthcare, lack of job security and precarious immigration status. In light of the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on the lives of migrants, Mekong Migration Network (MMN) is conducting an in-depth study that centres on migrants and returnees’ experiences in navigating and negotiating…
Find out more »International Conference “Weaving the Threads of Migration, Sustainable Development and The Pandemic”
Host: Asian Research Center for Migration Co-hosts: Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University Global Alliance Against Traffic of Women ILO (International Labor Organization) Thailand SEA Junction The Asian Research Center for Migration (ARCM) at the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS), Chulalongkorn University is organising its annual international conference to commemorate International Migrants Day on the 17th December 2020. This year’s theme examines the impacts of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic on migration, mobility and the 2030…
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