Book Review: Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 by Kalyani Ramnath RamnathKalyani, Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 308 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-1-5036-3298-1, US90 (hbk).

2025/01/31 by Vineeta Sinha · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography

paper · pdf · doi:10.1177/08438714241306479

openalex publication_date 2025/01/31 · openalex created_date 2025/02/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

Abstract

problem, even in volumes published by major publishing houses, and this is particularly damaging in volumes such as this that have the potential to become reference tools for future scholarship.

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