Malaysia’s New Ethnoscapes and Ways of Belonging

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Synopsis

This book provides a picture of a globalized Malaysia where its conventionally-conceived multi-ethnic composition of Malays, Chinese, Indians and Others rub shoulders with or interact more intimately on a daily basis with transnational ethnoscapes of migrant workers, asylum seekers, international students, and foreign spouses. It asks how, as Malaysians become wedded to their citizenship, they extend the same awareness of rights and claims to non-citizens such as African international students, the Indonesian maids who look after their children, and the Chins and stateless Rohingyas who populate the landscape as refugees and undocumented workers. What are the possibilities of forming cosmopolitan solidarities with non-Malaysians? And what are the newcomers’ strategies for place-making and belonging? And to bring the discussions of citizenship in Malaysia into relief, it is also asked how Malaysians abroad seek to enact and make meaningful their Malaysian citizenship. A diversity of experiences shapes the narratives in the chapters: of racialization, rejection, boundary-making and exclusivity, resilience and adaptation.This book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.

Book details

Author:
Gaik Cheng Khoo, Julian C. H. Lee
ISBN:
9781317384021
Related ISBNs:
9781138087996, 9781317384014, 9781138937901, 9781317384007, 9781315676050
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Pages:
144
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2024-01-26
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2016
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Politics and Government