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Our Spring Issue promises to be one of our most dynamic issues yet. Our guest editor, Apichai Shipper from the department of Polical Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California says in his abstract:

The concept of citizenship is fluid and constructed. State actors, societal actors, and courts play important roles in the construction and reconstruction of formal, substantive, and differentiated citizenship. The recent arrival of transnational gendered migration from neighboring countries to East and Southeast Asia challenges preexisting assumptions about how political communities are defined and how new members should be treated.

In keeping with this theme we are delighted to offer to the first five new subscribers of Pacific Affairs a free copy of the DVD "Sour Strawberries". Click below to view the trailer of this revealing and provocative documentary about migrants fighting for their right as workers and citizens.

SOUR STRAWBERRIES from Cinemabstruso Leipzig on Vimeo.

Pacifc Affairs is a peer-reviewed, independent, and interdisciplinary scholarly journal focussing on important current political, economic and social issues throughout Asia and the Pacific. Each issue contains approximately five new articles and 40-50 book reviews. Published continuously as a quarterly since 1928 under the same name, it is the oldest English-language journal with a focus on Asia and the Pacific. It enjoys an international reputation based on the high quality of articles, and its extensive book reviews section. Pacific Affairs has been located on the beautiful campus of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, since 1961. The journal is an important component of the Institute of Asian Research, and is committed to providing the scholarly community and the world at large high quality research on Asia and the Pacific that takes readers beyond the headlines and across multiple disciplines.

Pacific Affairs is indexed by Social Sciences Index, Humanities Index, Humanities International Index, Public Affairs Information Service and PAIS ARCHIVE, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, World Affairs Online and Bibliography of Asian Studies. We are both indexed and have abstracts of articles appear in Web of Science, GEOBASE, Canadian Periodical Index, Academic Search Complete, CBCA Complete, Historical Abstracts, International Political Science Abstracts, America: History and Life, Public Administration and CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Ingenta is the electronic provider for our online subscriptions. Pacific Affairs was distinguished to be one of the first journals to be invited by JSTOR to be represented in their archives at its inception.