The postcolonial ambiguities of Eurasian pan-ethnicity in Singapore

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11147487
AutoresJohn Lowe (0000-0002-8468-9276), Mairtin Mac An Ghaill (0000-0002-5713-3109, Newman University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen24
Número2
Páginas232-245
Fecha de publicación2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian and Pacific migration journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0117-1968 • E-ISSN: 2057-049X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0117196815579955
OpenAlexW2344982554
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas27

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