Ethnic Separatism in Southeast Asia

May, R.J.

doi:10.1111/apv.312003

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“…In the early formative years of the Thai Malay movement, the search for international security guarantees in response to Thai repression assumed two forms. First, Thai Malay leaders sought annexation to preindependence Malaya in the hope that ethnic allies would support them in their struggle (de Silva et al 1988;May 1990). Second, the Thai Malay also looked to the international community for recognition and legitimacy.…”

Section: The Roots Of Separatism-ethnic Cleavagementioning

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“…For example, after several Thai Malay dissidents were jailed, the British government called on Bangkok to provide "a just solution of Patani's case" but made no effort to mediate or provide good offices for a negotiated solution or even to recognize the legitimacy of the Thai Malay movement within the confines of UN definitions of minority self-determination (Jones 1948: 4-5). Thereafter the government abandoned efforts at forcible assimilation in favor of an uneasy combination of accommodation and integration strategies that included dropping compulsory attendance at Thai primary schools and promotion of the use of Thai over the Malay language (Brown 1988;May 1990; for further details see Thomas 1989 andForbes 1989).…”

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“…On the other hand, elements of irredentism are evident in the way in which some of Malaysia's more strident regional leaders approached the Thai Malay issue; calls for reunification, intervention, and rebellion became common in the early and middle stages of the conflict. 2 Despite deep-seated ethnic cleavages and affinities, a history of minority repression and assimilation, along with long periods of mutual mistrust, frictions between Malaysia and Thailand, at least on this issue, have been minimized in three important ways (May 1990).…”

Section: Introduction: Managing Interstate Ethnic Conflict or The Pumentioning

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“…Existing perspectives on the interstate dimensions of ethnic conflict tend to underemphasize alternative security threats as a basis for interstate cooperation (Heraclides 1991;Gurr 1993;Van Evera 1994). Yet the common interests of both Thailand and Malaysia in building regional stability, coupled with a desire for domestic economic growth, served as counterweights to interstate tensions that otherwise might have developed out of the Thai Malay issue (May 1990). In addition to various state-to-state agreements, protocols, and treaties, Thailand's efforts in the 1980s and 1990s to enhance basic minority rights and guarantees through regional development programs reduced the overall intensity of the conflict to a manageable level (de Silva et al 1988).…”

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“…Yet, the reluctance of the Chinese to press for more than business opportunity and their willingness to endure and even welcome segregation have curtailed actions or reactions that might have raised mild or latent tension to a level of open conflict. For Thai nationalists, the challenge posed by the business acumen and cultural aloofness of the Chinese is less troubling than the separatist or irredentist sentiment expressed by Muslim Malays in the four southern provinces of the country (May 1990). In comparison with other minorities of comparable size, the situation of the Chinese in Thailand seems to be relatively benign.…”

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A Framework for Comparative Study of Minority-Group Aspirations

Mikesell*¹,

Murphy**²

2017

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Most states have one or more ethnic minorities. Members of such groups invariably experience some degree of dissatisfaction with their status. In consequence, tension between subnational identity and national affiliation i s a persistent and pervasive reality. Although a large literature addresses the relationship between culture and nationality, it cannot be said that the interaction of minority-group aspirations and related government policies is well understood. In this article, we seek to build a foundation for such understanding through the development of a framework for comparative study. We propose a diagnostic formula that focuses o n minority-group demands ranging from recognition, access, and participation to separation, autonomy, and independence. We then consider the significance of geographical context and group-state interaction for minority goals. A more detailed analysis of circumstances that foster accommodation or conflict appears in nine case studies: Tamils in Sri Lanka, Druze in Lebanon, Old Order Amish in the US., Chinese in Thailand, Basques in Spain, Indians in Central America, Kurds in "Kurdistan," Sikhs in India, and Swedish-speakers in Finland. In the final section of the paper, we offer suggestions and speculations on the reasons for attainment or frustration of minority-group goals, the efficacy of related government policies, and research needs in the large and rapidly evolving field of cultural-political studies.

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Emerging Issues In Southeast Asian Geography: Local, Non-Local and Collaborative Scholarship

Hirsch¹

2013

TRaNS

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This paper reviews several prominent journals to identify key trends and issues in Southeast Asian geography. The review identifies the locus of articles' geographical scholarship, the balance between issue-based versus other types of articles, and the trends in the subject matter of the issue-based publications. The paper considers the meaning of an ‘issue-based’ approach to geography in local and non-local geographical scholarship on and in Southeast Asia. Geography as taught and practiced in Southeast Asia has followed a largely idiographic tradition based on description of landscapes, regions, settlement patterns, and so on. At an applied level, geography in some Southeast Asian countries has tended toward regional planning rather than engaging more centrally with the social sciences. Geography as a critical social science has only a loose purchase in the inherently geographical debates around development, environment, globalisation, and regionalisation in Southeast Asia. On the other hand, geographers from outside the region have engaged in more critical study, and geographical teaching and research on Southeast Asia in Australasia, North America, and Europe tends to take an issue-based approach and to be situated broadly within the realm of ‘development geography’. The paper also concludes with the question of how the discipline can better serve an issue-based agenda without being dominated by western critical social science.

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Ethnic Separatism in Southeast Asia

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Who intervenes?: ethnic conflict and interstate crisis

Who intervenes?: ethnic conflict and interstate crisis

A Framework for Comparative Study of Minority-Group Aspirations

Emerging Issues In Southeast Asian Geography: Local, Non-Local and Collaborative Scholarship

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