International migration and development in Asia: Exploring knowledge frameworks

There is revived interest and debate on the relation between international migration and development, with Asia emerging as one important locus for such deliberations. A number of institutions, journals, people and organizations have emerged as key players in these discussions but so far there have been few attempts to investigate the information gathered from the perspective of "knowledge production". This paper's objective, therefore, is to outline some of the ways in which knowledge about migration and development is being produced in Asia. We focus on selected aspects of knowledge production to identify the lenses through which much of the work is currently generated and the research imagination resulting from existing approaches

Corporate security and the stratum of security management

Corporate security is a sector within the greater security domain, unique from contract private security, public policing and national security. Corporate security transverses both the private and public sectors and is embedded in small and large organisations. The Corporate Security Manager requires a set of skills and knowledge depending on their level of management as a line-, middle- or executive manager. At the line level, the Security Manager has high security-specific technical skills and knowledge; however, these are internal and isolated. As the Security Manager moves vertically in their organisation, skills become broader and less technical, encompassing risk management, business continuity, and physical, personnel and technical security. Security management may reach a glass ceiling at this level. To break into the executive requires generic skills such as an ability to understand business fundamentals as well as an external focus and an ability to shape the environment