State, Development and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Societies

Edmund Terence Gomez is Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya. He has also held appointments at the University of Leeds (UK) and Murdoch University (Australia) and served as Visiting Professor at Kobe University, Japan. Between 2005 and 2008, he served as Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), in Geneva, Switzerland.

• Introduction Edmund Terence Gomez 1. Ethnicity Nicholas Tarling 2. Inter-Ethnic Relations, Identity and Business: The Chinese in Britain and Malaysia Edmund Terence Gomez 3. Beyond Reductionism: State, Ethnicity and Public Policy in Plural Societies Yeoh Kok Kheng 4. Ethnic Identity Formation: The Case of Second-Generation Chinese and Vietnamese in the United States Rebecca Kim 5. A World on Fire? Some Notes on Burma Alfred Oehlers 6. Hidden in Plain View: Singapore’s Race and Ethnicity Policies Nicole Tarulevicz 7. The State and Public Policies, Civil Society and Identity Formation in Multi-Ethnic Societies: The Case of the Chinese in the Philippines Teresita Ang-See 8. The Politics of Redefining Ethnic Identity in Indonesia: Smothering the Fires in Lombok with Democracy Kendra Clegg 9. Development of China’s Ethnic Minority Areas: The State and the Market Xin Chen 10. Public Policies and Ethnic Relations in Sri Lanka S.T. Hettige 11. A Nation Within? Maori People and Autonomy in New Zealand, 1840-2004 Danny Keenan

"What this collection does offer is a kaleidoscopic range of empirical cases that add up to a solid counter to calls to place political rights for immigrants on the backburner while proritizing economic integration. The essays should prove to be useful for readers interested in critical views of the history of the not-so-kaleidoscopic responses to multiethnic realities by states still clinging to mono-ethnic notions of identity." - Hyung Gu Lynn, University of British Columbia, Canada'This is a strong book which will give those interested in theories of ethnicity much to think about. The clear, mercifully jargon-free prose will recommend the volume to specialist and novice alike.' - June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami - East Asia: An International Quarterly