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Tamils and the Haunting of Justice

History and Recognition in Malaysia's Plantations
Verfasser: Willford, Andrew C.
978-0-8248-4787-6

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Titel:	Tamils and the Haunting of Justice
Untertitel:	History and Recognition in Malaysia's Plantations
URL:	https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824847876
URL Erlt Interna:	Verlag
URL Erlt Info:	URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Erläuterung :	Volltext
Von:	Andrew C. Willford
ISBN:	978-0-8248-4787-6
Erscheinungsort:	Honolulu
Verlag:	University of Hawaii Press
Erscheinungsjahr:	[2014]
Erscheinungsjahr:	© 2014
DOI:	10.1515/9780824847876
Umfang:	1 online resource (336 pages)
Details:	15 illustrations
Fußnote :	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
Abstract:	In 2006 dejected members of the Bukit Jalil Estate community faced eviction from their homes in Kuala Lumpur where they had lived for generations. City officials classified plantation residents as squatters and, unaware of years of toil, attachment to the land, and past official promises, questioned any right they might have to stay, wondering "How can there be a plantation in Kuala Lumpur?"This story epitomizes the dilemma faced by Malaysian Tamils in recent years as they confront the moment when the plantation system where they have lived and worked for generations finally collapses. Foreign workers from Indonesia and Bangladesh have been brought in to replace Tamil workers to cut labor costs.
Abstract:	As the new migrant workers do not bring their whole families with them, the community structures-schools, temples, churches, community halls, recreational fields-need no longer be sustained, allowing more land to be converted to mechanized palm oil production or lucrative housing developments. In short, the old, long-term community-based model of rubber plantation production introduced by British and French companies in colonial Malaya has been replaced by a model based upon migrant labor, mechanization, and a gradual contraction of the plantation economy. Tamils find themselves increasingly resentful of the fact that lands that were developed and populated by their ancestors are now claimed by Malays as their own; and that the land use patterns in these new townships, are increasingly hostile to the most symbolic vestiges of the Tamil and Hindu presence, the temples.
Abstract:	In addition to issues pertaining to land, legal cases surrounding religious conversion have exacerbated a sense of insecurity among Tamil Hindus. Based on seventeen months of ethnographic fieldwork, this compelling book is about much more than the fast-approaching end to a way of life. Tamils and the Haunting of Justice addresses critical issues in the study of race and ethnicity. It is a study of how notions of justice, as imagined by an aggrieved minority, complicate legal demarcations of ethnic difference in post colonial states. Through its ethnographic breadth, it demonstrates which strategies, as enacted by local communities in conjunction with NGOs and legal advisors/activists, have been most "successful" in navigating the legal and political system of ethnic entitlement and compensation.
Sprache:	eng
Fußnote :	In English
Weitere Schlagwörter :	Plantation workers; Government policy; Malaysia; Plantation workers; Relocation; Malaysia; Tamil (Indic people); Government policy; Malaysia; Tamil (Indic people); Relocation; Malaysia

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