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Through engaging the themes of co-ethnicity, intersectionality and postcoloniality, this book contributes to extant studies of migration. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of Sociology, Social and Political Geography, Social Anthropology, History and Politics.
List of contents
1. Introduction – Migration and new racism beyond colour and the "West": co-ethnicity, intersectionality and postcoloniality, 2. Racism without racial difference? Co-ethnic racism and national hierarchies among Nikkeijin ethnic return migrants in Japan, 3. The racialization of North Koreans in South Korea: diasporic co-ethnics in the South Korean ethnolinguistic nation, 4. More than race: a comparative analysis of "new" Indian and Chinese migration in Singapore, 5. Race, whiteness and internationality in transnational education: academic and teacher expatriates in Malaysia, 6. Ties that bind, lines that divide: Bangladeshi labour migrants, Malaysian spouses, and the new contours of racialization, 7. Navigating race: intersectional boundary-making onboard transnational ships, 8. Sinophobia in the Asian century: race, nation and Othering in Australia and Singapore, 9. Hierarchies of mixedness: hybridity, mixed-race racisms and belonging for Eurasians in Singapore, 10. On the perils of racialized Chineseness: race, nation and entangled racisms in China and Southeast Asia, 11. New racism or new Asia: what exactly is new and how does race matter?
About the author
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.
Summary
Through engaging the themes of co-ethnicity, intersectionality and postcoloniality, this book contributes to extant studies of migration. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of Sociology, Social and Political Geography, Social Anthropology, History and Politics.
