Race, Ethnicity, And the State in Malaysia And Singapore

Eight academics from Singapore and the U.S. contribute nine articles examining how various groups in Malaysia and Singapore--the Chinese, Malays, Tamils, Eurasian, and Orang Asli--have accommodated or resisted the dominant influence of the state in incorporating or subordinating them. Three of the nine contributions were previously published, two in a 1997 special issue of the Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science and one in the Asian Studies Review in 2002. The first text to document the consequences of state policies on ethnic-formation in the region, this work will be of interest to students and scholars of race and ethnicity. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lian Kwen Fee, Ph.D. (1986) in Sociology, Victoria University of Wellington, is Associate Professor and chairs the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. His research and publication interests are in race and ethnicity, nation-state, migration , and citizenship.