Every day migrant workers from South Sulawesi enter Sabah state in East Malaysia illegally, without visas and passports, mainly in search of work on palm oil plantations. Take, for example, Syarifah ...

The young IT specialist working for a multinational company in Jakarta has plenty to pride herself on. Her monthly pay packet of US$2,000 is bigger than that of 99 per cent of her fellow Indonesians.

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In many ways, development creates an illusion of choice. As Baudrillard suggests, the choices offered by capitalism are often ...