No longer Singaporean : visibilising the everyday contestations of identities
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14/11/2010
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In the past decade or so, the citizens of Singapore have been vigorously urged by the state to turn their cultural and linguistic affinities with China to economic advantage. At the same time, the city-state has opened its doors to selected, skilled migrants from Asia including many of those from mainland and Greater China. These concurrent emphases have coincided with the trend and growing numbers of Singaporeans heading overseas for one reason or another. Through a reflexive journey sparked by a recent visit, I argue in this paper that the resultant change in the makeup of its population produces tensions that may well have important repercussions for a nation that is constitutionally multiethnic though pragmatically meritocratic. However, because these frictions find form only in everyday, pedestrian practices, they are often dismissed or ignored. It is my contention that as the stage on which innocuous, creeping shifts in social identities are enacted, finessed and (re)embedded into social imaginaries, these everyday contestations of identities need to studied for indications of what is at stake. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/47795/1/NoLongerSingaporean.pdf http://asianaustralianstudies.org/home/events/event/asian-australian-identities-3-aai3-conference-regionalising-asian-australian-identities/ Leong, Susan (2010) No longer Singaporean : visibilising the everyday contestations of identities. In Asian Australian Identities 3 Conference : Regionalising Asian Australian Identities, 13-14 November 2009 , Curtin University, Perth, WA. |
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Copyright 2009 [please consult the author] |
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Creative Industries Faculty; Journalism, Media & Communication |
Palavras-Chave | #200202 Asian Cultural Studies #200208 Migrant Cultural Studies #200209 Multicultural Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies #Singapore #Australia #Greater China #Foreign talent #inter-ethnic accommodation |
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Conference Paper |