Everyday Multiculturalism in/across Asia

Jessica Walton, Anita Harris, Koichi Iwabuchi, Jessica Walton, Anita Harris, Koichi Iwabuchi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780367552824
• eBook ISBN: 9781000201833
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

What does it mean to bring Asia into conversation with current literature on everyday multiculturalism? This book focuses on the empirical, theoretical and methodological considerations of using an everyday multiculturalism approach to explore the ordinary ways people live together in difference in the Asian region while also drawing attention to increasing trans-Asian mobilities.

The chapters in this collection encompass inter-disciplinary research undertaken in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea that explores some core aspects of everyday multiculturalism as it plays out in and across Asia. These include an increase in intraregional movements and especially labour mobility, which demands regard for the experiences of migrants from Burma, China, Nepal, The Philippines and India; negotiations of cultural diversity in nations where a multi-ethnic citizenry is formally recognised through predominantly pluralist models, and/or where national belonging is highly racialized; and intercultural contestation against, in some cases, the backdrop of a newly emergent multicultural policy environment. The book challenges and reinvigorates discussions around the relative transferability of an everyday multiculturalism framework to Asia, including concepts such as super-diversity, conviviality and everyday racism, and the importance of close attention to how people navigate differences and commonalities in local and trans-local contexts.

This book will be of interest to academics and researchers studying migration, multiculturalism, ethnic and racial studies, and to advanced students of Sociology, Political Science and Public Policy. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” refer to notes.

Allport, G. W. 69

Amin, Ash 57, 69

Ang, I. 11, 12

attentiveness 70, 71, 75–78, 81

Aziz, N. A. 17

Baig, Raees 5, 6

Berger, Peter 53

Billig, M. 107

care ethics approach 67–83

caregiving 71

caring about 70

caring for 70–71

Channel Five 115–117

Chinese University of Hong Kong 56

Christensen, Miyase 101

Collinson, D. L. 107, 118

Committee on the Promotion of Racial Harmony (CPRH) 51–52

competence 71, 75–77, 79, 81

contact hypothesis 69

conviviality 13, 14, 20, 25, 64, 69, 120; community 61, 62; interethnic 11; through language play 105–120

cosmopolitan consumption 23

CPRH see Committee on the Promotion of Racial Harmony

cultural diversity 3–5, 22, 30, 33, 35, 41, 43, 44, 68, 70, 72, 88, 91, 100

Cunningham, Stuart 95–96

De Soucey, M. 107

Dikötter, Frank 91–92, 101n1

discrimination 19, 39, 40, 49, 52, 55, 60, 67, 73, 108; institutional 48; racial 51

division of labor 61, 81

doing of care 70–72

Dreher, Jochen 53, 54

Durkheim, Emile 61

eldercare in Singapore, multicultural landscapes of 72–75

Equal Opportunities Commission 50

Essed, Philomena 88

ethnicity 11, 14, 17, 18, 21, 26, 31, 39, 43, 55–57, 63, 71, 72, 93, 94 see also racism

everyday cosmopolitanism 21–23

everyday multiculturalism: in/across Asia 2–4; in Malaysia 13–14; in Melbourne 88–91; in multiracialized Malaysia 10–26; 1Malaysia and 15–17; power in 53–54; in union 48–64 see also individual entries

everyday otherness ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: everyday multiculturalism in/across Asia
• 1Malaysia? Young people and everyday multiculturalism in multiracialized Malaysia
• The limits of “multiculturalism without diversity”: multi-ethnic students and the negotiation of “difference” in South Korean schools
• Everyday multiculturalism in union: power construction in migrant domestic workers’ unionism
• Multicultural encounters in Singapore’s nursing homes: a care ethics approach
• Iphones and “African gangs”: everyday racism and ethno-transnational media in Melbourne’s Chinese student world
• Humour at work: conviviality through language play in Singapore’s multicultural workplaces
• Index