Buku ini menghimpun puluhan tulisan (artikel, ceramah, pidato, surat, dan kutipan dari para tokoh Tionghoa-Indonesia, anggota berbagai organisasi terkemuka dan kalangan individu Tionghoa yang memiliki peran penting dalam perkembangan pemikiran minoritas Tionghoa di Indonesia. Periode yang dicakup dalam tulisan-tulisan ini adalah tahun 1900-2002, dimulai dari gerakan nasionalis Tionghoa bangkit …
The contents of this book: 1. Introduction: Definition, Innovation, and History 2. Language and Ethnicity: The Mon in Burma and Thailand 3. Thailand and the Tai: Versions of Ethnic Identity
Dalam buku ini, para sarjana dari berbagai disiplin ilmu mencoba mengungkapkan kegalauan dan kecemasan yang hampir seluruhnya tersimpan dalam batin. Kegalauan mencari sejarah, kegalauan mencari identitas, kegalauan dalam pergaulan dan berbagai kegalauan lainnya, yang tidak pernah diizinkan untuk ditampilkan ke luar oleh orang etnis Cina. Dengan demikian, buku ini mengungkapkan "wilayah belakang…
Buku ini merupakan kajian komprehensif sosial budaya yang pertama tentang bagian dunia yang mempesona, Laos. la menjadi objek kajian utama buku ini, menempati sentral Asia Tenggara daratan. Dikelilingi oleh batas-batas negara-negara tetangga, termasuk Cina, sehingga ketika kita bicara tentang Laos, maka wilayah-wilayah negara-negara di sekitarnya akan tersentuh. Berbagai kajian budaya dan masya…
Arab immigrants to Southeast Asia and their descendants have not received much attention in comparison with immigrants from other parts of the world such as the Chinese, Indians and Europeans. Numerically the Arabs as they are called up till now, have always paled into insignificance besides other foreign minorities, in particular in the colonial period. Even today their presence is hardly noti…
The work sets the general, historical and social framework in which the Malagasy adventure of a “foreign minority” took place. This book will in fact be about a Sunni Muslim community in Madagascar (a minority compared to the Khodja Shiites), a Creole-speaking community of some six hundred people established for more than a hundred years in Tamatave, the country's first port, capital of the…
The interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and chinese communities in Asia and across the globe. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cutural and religious 'other', the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical bussiness networks and the operational machanisms unique to these communities. This volume explores mateia…
Exploring the gamut of issues involved in this complex problem, this book constitutes a comprehensive and in-depth study of federalism and devolution in the Sri Lankan context. The author leads us on a journey of discovery spanning various phases of the evolution of the problem, from pre-independence Sri Lanka to the victory of the Kumaratunga government in 1994, and its subsequent failure to i…
Concerns the history of Sri Lankan immigrants to Malaysia and Singapore. Much of the material for this history is based on interviews with members of the Sinhalese communities in Singapore and Malaysia. The Japanese occupation of Singapore is extensively covered
This book looks at the Rohingya in the South Asian region, primarily India and Bangladesh. It explores the broader picture of the historical and political dimensions of the Rohingya crisis, and examines subjects of statelessness, human rights and humanitarian protection of these victims of forced migration. Further, it chronicles the actual process of emergence of a stateless community, the tra…