‘After the break’: re-conceptualizing ethnicity, national identity and ‘Malaysian-Chinese’ identities

Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia D O Thomas

doi:10.1080/01419870.2014.859286

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“…It is also in a concordance of other previous studies (Gabriel, 2014;Harding, 2006), where in the knowledge production, it always rooted with power. Therefore, the dominant discourses are presented as the true reality, elucidating the important facts, which is significantly important to the Sarawak natives, lay the seeds of the 'othering' discourses.…”

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confidence: 79%

Another History Of Malaysia? Expression From ‘Negara’ Sarawak

Zamri¹

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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National narratives are about the collective past as well as the future. It assumes the construction of a national identity and represents the central actors and peripheral actors orienting themselves towards the national story. However, the collective experience as part of constructing nation's history is occasionally challenged and subjugated by ethnicities, class, regions, and histories. Such forces are working on returning and reinterpreting the past. This paper presents the results of a focus group study exploring how the Sarawakian construct the history of Malaysia from a different point of view. Two focus groups (n=25) were conducted at Kuching and Miri, Sarawak. The results revealed that the most common constructs include violations of historical facts with regards to the representation of Malaysia's history. This sense of a 'Negara' Sarawak mapped out the constructivist notions of Orientalism by Edward Said in support of knowledge of the other global and regional developments over the last two decades. This configures upon the fabric of consciousness in the emergence of 'other' discourses in the history of Malaysia

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Another History Of Malaysia? Expression From ‘Negara’ Sarawak

Zamri¹

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…The British colonial authorities occupying Malaya were responsible for creating social constructs including racial categories such as the 'Malay', 'Indian', or 'Chinese' (Hirschman, 1986;in Sharmani, 2013). The notion of 'Chineseness' was also such a colonial-orientalist social construction based on place of origin and dialect groups (Shamsul, 1999).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The notion of 'Chineseness' was also such a colonial-orientalist social construction based on place of origin and dialect groups (Shamsul, 1999). The British colonial administrators simplified their classification of what was essentially a complex network of identification based on attributes such as dialect group, occupation, class, gender and village (Carstens, 2005;in Sharmani, 2013). Thus, the concept of race, and further on, 'Chineseness', can be said to have been a lumping together of people based on certain perceived social factual similarities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Chan See Shu Yuen: The Cantonese Ancestral Clan in Malaysia as Transnational Social Support Network

Chan

Khaild

2020

HSE

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Chinese clan associations can be found in many parts of the world, due to the Chinese emigration from mainland China in the 1800s. This paper contextualises the study of Chinese clan associations within the Asian approach to cultural heritage preservation. In particular, it takes the case of Cantonese clan associations, a dialect group of the Chinese, whose clan associations have been studied less extensively in comparison to other dialects such as Hokkien and Hakka. The case study used is the Chan See Shu Yuen Clan Association Kuala Lumpur & Selangor (CSSY), which was originally set up by a founder of Cantonese origin, and now operates as a cultural centre as well as a tourist attraction in a strategic location in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur. Fieldwork consisted of participant observation which included photography, videography, and focus group discussions with the clan association’s board of trustees; and a content analysis of documents such as its yearbook, brochures, and the association’s website. We identified the condition of transnationalism as outlined by Vertovec (1997), in which the clan association had undergone an evolution of its original functions and therefore remained relevant.

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“…However, in Malaysia the picture is much more complicated: more recent immigrants find themselves at the bottom of a complex hierarchy of racialised belonging, in which those of Malay ethnicity are at the top, granted special rights as bumiputera or 'sons of the soil' (Lee 2004, 126-127). Citizenship does not, in and of itself, guarantee equal rights, and whereas Malays are considered 'organically Malaysian', those of Chinese and Indian descent find their status tainted by the historical immigrations of their communities (Gabriel 2014(Gabriel , 1215. In Sabah, these racialised dynamics of differentiated citizenship are further complicated by the existence of non-Malay and non-Muslim 'natives' who feel they are 'second-class bumiputera' in comparison with Muslim bumiputera (Chin 1999, 26).…”

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Impossible children: illegality and excluded belonging among children of migrants in Sabah, East Malaysia

Allerton

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This article makes a case for attending to the specificities of child illegality in migrant contexts. This is not simply because children have been left out of previous accounts, but also because their status as minors makes both their citizenship and their illegality different to that of adults. The analysis is based on research with children born to migrants in the state of Sabah, East Malaysia.

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‘After the break’: re-conceptualizing ethnicity, national identity and ‘Malaysian-Chinese’ identities

Cited by 30 publications

References 9 publications

Another History Of Malaysia? Expression From ‘Negara’ Sarawak

Another History Of Malaysia? Expression From ‘Negara’ Sarawak

Chan See Shu Yuen: The Cantonese Ancestral Clan in Malaysia as Transnational Social Support Network

Impossible children: illegality and excluded belonging among children of migrants in Sabah, East Malaysia

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