1st Edition

Asian Migration and New Racism Beyond Colour and the ‘West’

Edited By Sylvia Ang, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Brenda S.A. Yeoh Copyright 2023
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

Studies of racism against migrants have recently attempted to move away from the presumed dichotomy between 'white' and 'Others', yet the focus of much research remains predominantly trained on 'white' people racializing ‘Others’: whether Black, Asian or Muslim. Attending only to this 'white'/'Other' binary homogenises select groups of non-'white' including Asians. This approach also ignores... Read more

1. Introduction – Migration and new racism beyond colour and the "West": co-ethnicity, intersectionality and postcoloniality 

Sylvia Ang, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho and Brenda S. A. Yeoh 

2. Racism without racial difference? Co-ethnic racism and national hierarchies among Nikkeijin ethnic return migrants in Japan 

Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda 

3. The racialization of North Koreans in South Korea: diasporic co-ethnics in the South Korean ethnolinguistic nation 

Jennifer Hough 

4. More than race: a comparative analysis of "new" Indian and Chinese migration in Singapore 

Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho and Laavanya Kathiravelu 

5. Race, whiteness and internationality in transnational education: academic and teacher expatriates in Malaysia 

Sin Yee Koh and I Lin Sin 

6. Ties that bind, lines that divide: Bangladeshi labour migrants, Malaysian spouses, and the new contours of racialization 

Heng Leng Chee, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Wan Teng Lai 

7. Navigating race: intersectional boundary-making onboard transnational ships 

Steven C. McKay 

8. Sinophobia in the Asian century: race, nation and Othering in Australia and Singapore 

Sylvia Ang and Val Colic-Peisker 

9. Hierarchies of mixedness: hybridity, mixed-race racisms and belonging for Eurasians in Singapore 

Zarine L. Rocha and Brenda S. A. Yeoh 

10. On the perils of racialized Chineseness: race, nation and entangled racisms in China and Southeast Asia 

Ien Ang 

11. New racism or new Asia: what exactly is new and how does race matter? 

Parvati Raghuram 

Biography

Sylvia Ang is Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. Her research with migrants in and from Asia is interested in the production and experiences of difference and inequities, with a focus on ethnic relations, class and gender.

Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Her research addresses how citizenship is changing as a result of multi-directional migration flows in the Asia-Pacific.

Brenda S.A. Yeoh, FBA is Raffles Professor of Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, NUS. She was awarded the Vautrin Lud Prize for outstanding achievements in Geography in 2021.