Summary

The papers consider the impacts of international volunteering, the infrastructure and organizations promoting volunteerism, the subjective positionalities of volunteers, and how marginal populations experience volunteerism.

It provides governments and policymakers with new insights on the development of volunteerism in the region. It also emphasizes the need to extend the critical discussions of international and cross-cultural volunteerism in the Asia–Pacific region through the lenses of emotional and relational geographies by examining and understanding relationships in the international volunteering space.