Race, Education, and Citizenship: Mobile Malaysians, British Colonial Legacies, and a Culture of Migration (1st ed. 2017) (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship)

By: Sin Yee Koh

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Synopsis: Transnational skilled migrants are often thought of as privileged migrants with flexible citizenship. This book challenges this assumption by examining the diverse migration trajectories, experiences and dilemmas faced by tertiary-educated mobile Malaysian migrants through a postcolonial lens. It argues that mobile Malaysians’ culture of migration can be understood as an outcome and consequence of British colonial legacies – of race, education, and citizenship – inherited and exacerbated by the post-colonial Malaysian state. Drawing from archival research and interviews with respondents in Singapore, United Kingdom, and Malaysia, this book examines how mobile Malaysians make sense of their migration lives, and contextualizes their stories to the broader socio-political structures in colonial Malaya and post-colonial Malaysia. Showing how legacies of colonialism initiate, facilitate, and propagate migration in a multi-ethnic, post-colonial migrant-sending country beyond the end of colonial rule, this text is a key read for scholars of migration, citizenship, ethnicity, nationalism and postcolonialism.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781137503442
Related ISBNs:: 9781137503435
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan US, New York
Date of Addition:: 04/09/21
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Education, Social Studies, Philosophy, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
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