ISBN:
0199277621
,
019927763X
,
9780199277629
,
9780199277636
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 364 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Multiculturalism in Asia
DDC:
305.80095
Keywords:
Multiculturalism
;
Asia
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This volume assembles a group of leading regional experts to formulate the first rigorous and comprehensive consideration of multiculturalism debates in South and East Asia. Through close examination of pre-colonial traditions, colonial legacies, and post-colonial ideologies, this volume sheds new light on religious and ethnic conflict in the area, and presents a ground-breaking assessment of what role - if any - the international community should play in promoting multiculturalism. - ;This volume explores the different ways that ethnic and religious diversity is conceptualized and debated in
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Liberal Multiculturalism: Western Models, Global Trends, and Asian Debates; 3. Minority Rights with Chinese Characteristics; 4. A Liberal Model of Minority Rights for an Illiberal Multiethnic State? The Case of Lao PDR; 5. Subjects of the Nation Without Citizenship: The Case of 'Hill Tribes' in Thailand; 6. Liberal and Structural Ethnic Political Accommodation in Malaysia; 7. Normative Pluralism in Indonesia: Regions, Religions, and Ethnicities; 8. The Cost of Membership in Ascribed Community
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Justice for Migrant Workers? The Case of Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore10. At the Margins of a Liberal-Democratic State: Ethnic Minorities in Japan; 11. Multination Federalism and Minority Rights in Sri Lanka; 12. Burma/Myanmar: Struggle for Democracy and Ethnic Rights; 13. Indian Exceptionalism or Indian Model: Negotiating Cultural Diversity and Minority Rights in a Democratic Nation-State; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0199277621.001.0001
