Fertility Transitions Among Malay Populations of Southeast Asia: Puzzles of Interpretation

Jones, Gavin W.

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“…Subsequently, the fertility decline in this nation almost halted, especially among Malays (Peng, Ann, Chang and Kit 1988), though scholars argue about whether fluctuations in demographic trends in Peninsular Malaysia are due to population policy, or to other factors such as rising women's age at marriage following on expanding education and occupation opportunities, or the resurgence of fundamentalist Islam with conservative views on birth control and women's roles (DaVanzo and Haaga 1981 ;Hirschman 1986;Leete 1989). Some suggest that affirmative action policies played a role in arresting the fertility decline among Malays, particularly since in neighbouring Singapore, an industrialized society populated by the same ethnic groups as Malaysia but without analogous subsidy policies, fertility among all groups declined below the Malaysian levels (Jones 1990). As the Malaysian government continues with a pro-natalist policy, albeit a mild one, the point is noteworthy that high fertility can impede its goal of developing a well-educated and competitive work force unless ever-increasing amounts are spent on schooling subsidies.…”

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Family Size, Sex Composition and Children's Education: Ethnic Differentials Over Development in Peninsular Malaysia

Sudha¹

1997

Population Studies

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Family Size, Sex Composition and Children's Education: Ethnic Differentials Over Development in Peninsular Malaysia

Sudha¹

1997

Population Studies

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“…Many middle-class Malays subsequently chose to have larger families, and women's roles were legated to the home context (see Omar, 1994;Ong, 1987;Ong and Peletz, 1995). 4 Additional ethnographic studies have offered supplementary validation to statistical research supporting the argument that urban, middle-class, Malay women maintained high fertility while increasing age at first marriage, educational levels, and economic positions (see Kahn, 1992;Hefner, 2001;Ong, 1987;Peletz, 1988Peletz, , 1996Jones 1878Jones , 1990Leete 1989). Accordingly, women earn social capital as members of an elite group of mothers who raised good and productive citizens for the future of Malaysia and the Malay population (see Omar, 1994).…”

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Defining ‘Modern’ Malay womanhood and the coexistent messages of the veil

Mouser

2007

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The gender constructions and performances of Malay women are often perceived by outside researchers as 'shrouded under a veil' of increasing Islamic conservatism. Urban Malay women, however, argue that women actively engage in the construction and performance of gender identities. Based on research conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during 2001 and 2003, this article argues that women advantageously alter, transform and utilise the constructs placed upon them by Islam, by ethnic identification and by conceptions of 'modernity'. Often one image of 'womanhood' is presented and in public e an image that is socially accepted, honoured and respected e while less publicly alternative forms of 'womanhood' articulate individual goals and aims. Using an agent-oriented perspective, this article further includes an analysis of women's individual renegotiations of larger cultural constructs and the ways in which the tudong, or headscarf, has become a symbol by which individual women express their understanding of social position and personal freedoms in an industrialised Islamic context.

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“…Among the 1950-1959 birth cohort, mean sibship size differed very little by ethnicity (6.3 among nonMalays, 6.0 among Malays). According to Jones (1990), the NEP accounts for the slow decline in Malay fertility during a period in which fertility dropped more rapidly among Chinese and Indians, as well as ethnic Malays who resided in Singapore and Indonesia. These ethnic differences in sibship size resulted from differential fertility trends.…”

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Sibship Size and Educational Attainment in Peninsular Malaysia: Do Policies Matter?

Pong

1997

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The Second Malaysian Family Life Survey is used to explore one of the most important components of interfamily inequality of school attainment: sibship size. The survey data document the differences in the effects of sibship size on childreni's secondary school attainment among Malaysia's three ethnic communities. They also show the response of the sibship size effect to public policies targeting the ethnic Malay population. Three broad questions cani be addressed using the available data: First, how important is sibship size as a determinant of educational attainment, ceteris paribus, within the Malay and nonMalay populations? Second, how have the effects of sibship size changed over time? Third, are there ethnic differences in any such changes, differences that could be interpreted in light of the government's regulation of school supply and employnment opportunities for each group? Addressing these questions in the case of Malaysia illuminates the extent to which public policy more generally can alter the effect of sibship size on educational attainlment. Thefindings indicate that restrictions on family size by each of Malaysia's ethnic groups zvere a rational attempt by parents to compensate for constraints on their ability to invest in their children's education.

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Fertility Transitions Among Malay Populations of Southeast Asia: Puzzles of Interpretation

Cited by 30 publications

References 34 publications

Family Size, Sex Composition and Children's Education: Ethnic Differentials Over Development in Peninsular Malaysia

Family Size, Sex Composition and Children's Education: Ethnic Differentials Over Development in Peninsular Malaysia

Defining ‘Modern’ Malay womanhood and the coexistent messages of the veil

Sibship Size and Educational Attainment in Peninsular Malaysia: Do Policies Matter?

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