Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia

Somiah, Vilashini

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90417-3

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“…These omissions accumulate, compound, and are disproportionately concentrated among minorities with proximity to foreignness, such as communities of Indonesian or Filipino heritage in Sabah, of Tamil descent in West Malaysia, or the traditionally nomadic Bajau Laut on the eastern frontiers of Sabah bordering the Sulu Sea (Acciaioli, Brunt, and Clifton 2017;Somiah 2021). Motivations for upholding strict evidentiary standards cannot be simplistically reduced to concerns about identity fraud or procedural fairness.…”

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Theorizing Omission: State Strategies for Withholding Official Recognition of Personhood

Cheong

2023

Sociological Theory

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This article theorizes “omission,” which I define as the condition of being left out of administrative apparatuses, such as civil registers, censuses, and identity management systems. According to this theory, omission is not necessarily accidental but can constitute a political strategy. When even excluded statuses can be powerful grounds for claiming rights, resources, or membership, state actors can subvert such claims-making potential by depriving unwanted populations of the practical, material capacity to establish their legal personhood through documents and records. To situate omission, I develop a typology of documentary strategies additionally comprising “recognition,” “claims-making,” and “evasion.” Although my theorizing is informed by ethnographic research with unregistered families in Malaysia, scholars can apply this typology to multiperspectival, relational analyses of other empirical cases of documentary politics. Studying omissions has scholarly and ethical imperatives, not least to record the lives of populations denied, at times with existential consequences, the right to recognition.

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Theorizing Omission: State Strategies for Withholding Official Recognition of Personhood

Cheong

2023

Sociological Theory

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“…In fact, one in four people living in Sabah are non-citizens, which is very high compared to Peninsular Malaysia (Peng et al, 2021). Sabah has experienced migration on a particularly large scale, and is home to at least 44% of Malaysia's foreign workers, especially those from Indonesia (Somiah, 2022). These large numbers of illegal workers have contributed to the crisis of crime, which increased by 50% in 2022 (Berita Nasional Malaysia-Bernama, 2022).…”

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design for Low-Income Residents (B40) in Sabah, Malaysia

Alias,

Mohamed Mohan,

Abdol Ghani

et al. 2023

NJEDP

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Safety, facilities, and environment are known to be among the core factors that influence the Quality of Life (QoL) of neighbourhood communities. This study evaluates the low-income residents’ (B40) QoL and seeks to clarify whether People’s Housing Program Environment (PPRE) and Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) can be used collaboratively to improve the QoL of the People’s Housing Project (PPR) communities. This study hypothesizes that implementing CPTED is one of the strategies that may enhance the feeling of safety in residential environments. This study utilised a quantitative cross-sectional design to collect data from 150 PPR residents. The PLS-SEM method reveals that a good PPRE has a significant impact on the residents’ QoL. While the study’s focus is primarily on the expected impact of CPTED on residents’ QoL, the main finding suggests that CPTED can have a large impact on QoL on its own, but not as a mediator between PPRE and QoL. Community relationship, maintenance, natural surveillance, legitimate activity support, and target hardening were the five most important CPTED constructs. However, results did not support territorial reinforcement and natural access control as CPTED facilitators. This information is necessary for developing effective CPTED in housing policies that may improve PPR residential well-being.

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Legal Documents as a Prerequisite for Change in Social Status

Dollah,

Omar

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change

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Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia

Cited by 7 publications

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Theorizing Omission: State Strategies for Withholding Official Recognition of Personhood

Theorizing Omission: State Strategies for Withholding Official Recognition of Personhood

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design for Low-Income Residents (B40) in Sabah, Malaysia

Legal Documents as a Prerequisite for Change in Social Status

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