Publications

• Ford, M. and Lyons, L. (2007) “Making the most of what you’ve got: Sex Work and Class Mobility in the Riau Islands”, Indonesian Studies Working Papers No. 2, University of Sydney, May.

• Ford, M. and Lyons, L. (2006) “The Borders Within: Mobility and Enclosure in the Riau Islands”, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 47(2):257-271.

Conference and Seminar Papers

• Ford, M. and Lyons, L. (2007) “Sex Work and Class Mobility in the Riau Islands”, Indonesian Council Open Conference (ICOC), Monash University, Melbourne, 24-25 September 2007.

• Lyons, L. and M. Ford (2007) “Cross-border Marriage: Riau Islands Style”, Workshop on Transnational Marriages in Asia and Europe, Leiden, Netherlands, 21 September 2007. View Workshop Poster.

• Ford, M. and Lyons, L. (2007) “‘Illegal but Licit’: An exploration of the practices of bordering and mobility in Indonesia’s Riau Islands”, seminar presented at the University of Amsterdam, 20 September 2007. View PDF version of abstract.

• Ford, M. and Lyons, L. (2007) “Sex Work and Labour Migration as Trafficking: Succumbing to the Hegemony of Transnationalism”, EuroSEAS Conference, Naples, Italy, 12-14 September 2007. View PDF version of abstract.

• Lyons, L. and M. Ford (2007) “In the Shadow of Singapore: The Limits of Transnationalism in the Riau Borderlands”, EuroSEAS Conference, Naples, Italy, 12-14 September 2007. View PDF version of abstract.

• Lyons, L. and M. Ford (2007) “Masculinities Across Borders: Singaporean Malay Men in the Riau Islands”, International Convention of Asia Scholars 5, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2-5 August 2007. View PDF version of abstract.

• Lyons, L. and M. Ford (2007) “Gender in the Border Zone: Constructing Singapore’s Feminized Other”, Crossing Borders Conference, Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia, 4-6 February 2007. View PDF version of abstract.

• Ford, M. and Lyons, L. (2006) “Migrants and Identity at the Borderlands Between Singapore and Riau” Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia/UNESCO Australia/UNE Asia Centre Workshop: “Migration Challenges in the Asia-Pacific in the 21st Century”. Armidale, 28-29 November 2006.

• Ford, M. and Lyons, L. (2006) “Sex Work and Class Mobility in the Riau Islands”, paper presented at Women and Work Research Group Seminar, University of Sydney, 14 December 2006.  View PDF version of abstract.

• Sophie Williams (2006) “Travelling For Sex : Online and Offline Journeys”, Workshop on Internet Mediated Sociality, ANU, 3-5 November 2006.

• Sophie Williams (2006) “Sex Tourism and Virtual Communities : Singaporean Men and Online Sexual Spaces”, Understanding the Internet in the Asia/Pacific Workshop, University of Wollongong, 25-26 September 2006.

• Sophie Williams (2006) “Sex Tourism and Virtual Communities: Chinese-Singaporean Men and Online Sexual Spaces”, Media: Policies, Cultures and Futures in the Asia Pacific Region, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia, 27 – 29 November 2006.

• Ford, M. and Lyons, L. (2006) “Certified Product of Bintan: Disjunctures between the Virtual and Lived Realities of the Riau Islands”, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference, Brisbane, 27-30 September 2006. View pdf version of abstract [28kb].

• Lyons, L. and M. Ford (2006) “Love, Sex and the Spaces In-between: Bintan Wives and their Singaporean Husbands”, International marriage, rights and the state in Southeast and East Asia, Asia Research Institute, Singapore, 21-23 September 2006. View pdf version of abstract [22kb]

• Lyons, L. and M. Ford (2006) “Marital Relations Across Borders: The Singapore-Riau Experience”, 7th ASEAN Inter-University Seminar, Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-21 July 2006. View pdf version of abstract [18kb].

• Lyons, L. and M. Ford (2006) “‘Been Bored in Bintan': Singaporean tourists and the compromise between convenience and pleasure”, Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Biennial Conference, University of Wollongong, 26-29 June 2006. View pdf version of abstract [21kb].

• Lyons, L. and M. Ford (2006) “Danger Without, Danger Within: Perceptions of ‘Indonesia' and Singaporean Security”, paper presented at Indonesian Studies Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra 18 April 2006. View pdf version of abstract [18kb].

• Ford, M. and Lyons. L. (2005) "Bali without Bombs: The Singaporean Tourist Experience in the Bintan Resort Zone", Indonesia Council Open Conference 2005, Flinders University, 26-27 September. View pdf version of abstract [14kb]

• Lyons, L. and M. Ford (2005) “Feminising the Indonesian nation: Prostitutes and maids in Singapore”, Women in Asia Conference, Sydney, 25-27 September 2005. View pdf version of abstract [20kb].

• Ford, M. and Lyons, L. "Border Integrity and Economic Expansion in the Riau Islands: Implications of Singapore's Security Concerns for Regionalism and Citizenship", paper presented at the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS4), Shanghai, China, 20-24 August 2005. View pdf version of abstract [95kb].

• Ford, M. and Lyons, L. "The Bright Lights of Singapore: Making Meaning of the IMS-GT in the Riau Islands", paper presented at Asian Horizons: Cities, States and Societies Conference, Singapore, 1-3 August 2005. View pdf version of abstract [94kb].

• Lyons, L. and Ford, M. "Transnationalism and (im)mobility: the gendered processes of boundary construction in the Riau Islands", paper presented at the Jurnal Antropologi Indonesia Conference, Jakarta, Indonesia, 12-15 July 2005. View pdf version of abstract [93kb].

• Lyons, L. and Ford, M. (2004) "Pergulatan identitas dan kewarganegaraan masyarakat perbatasan Kep. Riau dan Singapura: perspektif ekonomi, politik dan antropologi sosial", Afan Gaffar Award 2004 for Visiting Political Researchers, inaugural address. Yogyakarta Plaza Hotel, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2 December 2004.

• Lyons, L. and Ford, M. (2004) "Becoming trans/national citizens: Indonesian female domestic workers in Southeast Asia" presented at the Cultures, Nations, Identities, Migrations Conference, Humanities Research Centre, Canberra, 15-16 April 2004.
  View pdf version of abstract [93kb].