Detention, Deportation and Resettlement
British Counterinsurgency and Malaya's Rural Chinese, 1948–60
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11943591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karl Hack (0000-0003-4253-3334, The Open Group, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 611-640 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03086534.2015.1083218 |
| OpenAlex | W1621392259 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 19 |
To understand how empires control ‘hostile’ populations, we need to penetrate below overarching terms such as ‘counter-terror’ and ‘winning hearts and minds’, in order to understand discrete constituent techniques on their own terms. Yet technique lifecycles tend to be inadequately researched. This article examines three key techniques used to control rural Chinese during the Malayan Emergency of 1948–60. Detention, deportation and, to a lesser extent, the better-documented technique of resettlement are tracked across the campaign, individually and for their changing salience in the overall blend of counterinsurgency approaches. This approach demonstrates that the main move for each technique (and for the campaign as a whole) was not so much from counter-terror to ‘winning hearts and minds’, as from collective and poorly targeted to tightly targeted approaches. It also demonstrates how far highly repressive measures, such as large-scale deportation, continued much later into the campaign than previously recognised. Above all, it shows how key elements of even an apparently well-researched campaign are likely to be only partially understood, if not seriously misconstrued, in the absence of a technique lifestyle approach
Criminology · Deportation · Immigration · Political science · Salience (neuroscience · Sociology · History · Law · Military History and Strategy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
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Beyond diaspora’s horizons
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Re-education’
Contextualising Apartheid at the End of Empire
Shirking the Briggs Plan
The “Hearts and Minds” Fallacy
Counterinsurgency as armed reform
China's and Japan's winding path to the Refugee Convention
Defence and Decolonisation in South-East Asia
The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945-1967
Histories of the Hanged
War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore
The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya
The Malayan Emergency as Counter-Insurgency Paradigm
Malayan Citizenship Legislation
Malaya
Hearts and minds in guerrilla warfare
Malaya
The origins of the Asian Cold War
The repatriation of the Chinese as a counter-insurgency policy during the Malayan Emergency
Iron Claws on Malaya”
Oral History and People’s Memory of the Malayan Emergency (1948–60)
Everyone lived in fear
Malaya
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |