1st Edition

Malaysia’s New Ethnoscapes and Ways of Belonging

Edited By Gaik Cheng Khoo, Julian C.H. Lee Copyright 2016
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction: theorizing different forms of belonging in a cosmopolitan Malaysia  Gaik Cheng Khoo

2. Arabs in the urban social landscapes of Malaysia: historical connections and belonging  Sumit K. Mandal

3. Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction: Taiwanese wives making citizenship claims in Malaysia  Heng Leng Chee, Melody C.W. Lu and Brenda S.A. Yeoh

4. Urban refugees in a graduated sovereignty: the experiences of the stateless Rohingya in the Klang Valley  Avyanthi Azis

5. African international students in Klang Valley: colonial legacies, postcolonial racialization, and sub-citizenship  Timothy P. Daniels

6. Place-making: Chin refugees, citizenship and the state in Malaysia  Gerhard Hoffstaedter

7. Intimate encounters: the ambiguities of belonging in the transnational migration of Indonesian domestic workers to Malaysia  Olivia Killias

8. Jom Bersih! Global Bersih and the enactment of Malaysian citizenship in Melbourne  Julian C.H. Lee

Biography

Gaik Cheng Khoo teaches Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. She publishes on Malaysian film, food and identity.

Julian C.H. Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, and member of the Centre for Global Research, RMIT University. He publishes on Malaysian civil society, democracy and multiculturalism.