Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Asia
Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Asia explores the relationship between ethnic minority rights and citizenship in Asia. Occupying a prominent place on the global map of conflict, Asia is one of the most ethnically diverse and racially divided regions in the world. It is also the scene of some of the most contrasting state responses to ethnic and racial conflicts, ranging from violent military repression and coercion on the one hand, to offers of autonomy and other forms of self-rule aimed at granting minorities more equal and inclusive citizenship on the other hand.
This volume combines conceptual debates about citizenship with case studies of ethnic minorities from across the Asian region, with a particular emphasis on Southeast Asia. The contributing authors question the nature of citizenship in the broader sense of identity, belonging, and the rights and responsibilities of ethnic minorities in relation to sovereign nation-states. They examine a wide range of key issues including minority rights claims, ethnic and racial conflict, citizenship, constructions and representations of identity, post-colonialism and human security.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Michelle Ann Miller is a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She previously taught at Deakin University and Charles Darwin University. Michelle is the author of Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia (2009), and has published articles and book chapters on decentralization, minority rights, the politics of Islamic law, urban-rural relations and conflict-related issues.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Series editors: Martin Bulmer and John Solomos, University of Surrey, UK
The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John Stone to provide an international forum for high quality research on race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time the study of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal sub-field of sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening period the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the dissemination of the latest empirical research.
It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of countries, fields of scholarship and crosses disciplinary boundaries. It has moved from being a quarterly to being published monthly and it is now available in both printed and electronic form.
The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range of the journals special issues. These special issues are an important contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and students from across the social sciences to engage with the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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Edited by Jean-Michel Lafleur and Marco Martiniello
Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism
Edited by Steven Vertovec
Migrant Politics and Mobilisation: Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation
Edited by Davide Per and John Solomos
New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics
Edited by Paul Amar
Young People, Ethnicity and Social Capital
Edited by Tracey Reynolds
Cosmopolitan Sociability
Edited by Tsypylma Darieva, Nina Glick Schiller and Sandra Gruner-Domic
Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century
Edited by Charles A. Gallagher and France Winddance Twine
Theorising Integration and Assimilation
Edited by Jens Schneider and Maurice Crul
Ethnic and Racial Studies in Asia: Inclusion or Exclusion?
Edited by Michelle Ann Miller
Diasporas, Cultures and Identities
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Gender, Race and Religion: Intersections and Challenges
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Latino Identity in Contemporary America
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Nationalism and National Identities
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Methods and Contexts in the Study of Muslim Minorities: Visible and Invisible Muslims
Edited by Nadia Jeldtoft and Jrgen S. Nielsen
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