The postcolonial ambiguities of Eurasian pan-ethnicity in Singapore

Bibliographic Data

ID11147487
AuthorsJohn Lowe (0000-0002-8468-9276), Mairtin Mac An Ghaill (0000-0002-5713-3109, Newman University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume24
Issue2
Pages232-245
Publication date2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian and Pacific migration journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0117-1968 • E-ISSN: 2057-049X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0117196815579955
OpenAlexW2344982554
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited27

There is a need to critically address the latent conceptual ambiguities in the pan-ethnic Eurasian label, and how it functions within the Singapore nation state’s ethno-racial regimes of representation. In response, this paper provides conceptual clarity by discussing the reaches and limits of this term as a floating signifier, as well as how it can be better operationalized as a modality of research. As a prelude to calling for a departure from understanding subjectivities within the city-state’s containment categories of ethnicity that have been legally institutionalized as ‘races,' it is argued that the monolithic racial label ‘Eurasian,' as well as the variegated cultural identities it is assumed to represent, need to be critically interrogated

CLARITY · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Operationalization · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia