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Race, Education, and Citizenship
Sin Yee Koh
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Description for Race, Education, and Citizenship
hardcover. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 293 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FMM; HBTQ; JFC; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 534.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
Series
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
Number of Pages
293
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137503435
SKU
V9781137503435
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Sin Yee Koh
Sin Yee Koh is Assistant Professor of Geography at the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei. Her research, positioned at the intersection of migration studies and urban studies, is informed by three areas of interest: (1) postcolonial geography; (2) migration/mobilities and citizenship; and (3) urbanization, inequality and social change.
Reviews for Race, Education, and Citizenship
“Koh’s book provides a wealth of theoretical, empirical and contextual information that would be of value and appeal to a wide readership within and beyond migration, citizenship, postcolonial and Malaysian studies. Beyond its academic and policy contributions, Koh’s book will be of special interest to mobile Malaysians and other postcolonial migrants as it opens up a space for nostalgia, reflexivity ... Read more