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178056
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This article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of privilege as a conceptual category through the case study of Chinese privilege in Singapore politics. It does so through two main ways. First, at the theoretical level, we emphasise the importance of foregrounding the salience of political hegemony in the analysis of privilege. Second, at the empirical level, we interrogate the concept in an Asian context, with specific reference to Singapore. We argue that the existing focus on class privilege within the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) should go hand-in-hand with the study of Chinese privilege since PAP hegemony has significant implications on how race is constructed, understood and implicated in Singapore politics and society. Furthermore, PAP’s race-based approach to politics inadvertently perpetuates Chinese privilege, as exemplified by contradictions in minority representation in parliament and the clash between Chinese privilege and the government’s system of meritocracy.
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178053
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The experiences of insurgency and counter-insurgency in Northeast region of India have left behind some of the brutal memories of violence. This paper intends to explain how fear and suspicion in societies under counter-insurgency build up the narrative of silence and secrecy when the state and the security forces allegedly commit excesses against civilians. For this, the paper revisits the ‘secret killings’ of the family members, close aides, and sympathizers of the insurgent organization United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) between 1998 and 2001 in Assam. Personal narratives question the official statistics of deaths and explore the conditions under which silence is manufactured in cases of violence which do not qualify for legal evidence. The motivation then is to disrupt the silence in absence of closure to those affected. From interviews conducted with sixty individuals representing multiple backgrounds, violence and power emerge to be integral in understanding secret killings in Assam.
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178052
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The paper explores the identity dynamics of a lesser known community by the name Bujuur Naga, with special reference to the Aemo lineage and identity. It explores the remnants of the Aemo heritage including their language, and further brings to picture the narrations from within which are necessary for understanding the complexities and insecurities associated with the identity. It also touches themes of territorial contestations between India and Myanmar that not only politically divides the socially bonded people, but it also leads to diminishing interaction between the separated Aemo-Bujuur families. The paper takes a narrative discourse with subjective approach, relying on primary information from field interactions, with the objective to locate the path of the paradigm identity.
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178054
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The release of the final draft of the National Register of Citizen for the Indian state of Assam has created anxiety among more than four million people whose names are missing. It is not clear what will happen to those whose names may not appear in the final list, which is in the process. Historically, the population movement in the region started centuries back when India was under the British rule. In 1947, the British India was partitioned between India and Pakistan, and in 1971 the West and East Pakistan separated, and Bangladesh was born. Despite such changes in the territorial and political sovereignty, immigration and population movement in the India’s northeast from across the International border continues for many reasons, though the Bangladesh government does not accept it.
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178055
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The term Third Culture Kids refers to a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents’ culture. The number of Third Culture Kids is rapidly increasing and with that, so too are the social adjustment problems they face when repatriated. This qualitative research focuses on identifying and examining different social adjustment barriers that Third Culture Kids face when repatriated to their home culture due to their experiences and time spent abroad. This article aims to generate discourse and understanding of social adjustment problems that Third Culture Kids encounter. The authors intend to introduce an additional perspective to the proposed topic within the Thai context of Thai-Indian participants returning to Thailand after studying abroad. This exploration of the social adjustment of Thai-Indian participants identified five themes (1) Identity, (2) Sense of belonging, (3) Freedom, (4) Readjustment to Thai culture, (5) Intellectual Discouragement.
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ID:
178051
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The study primarily negates the thesis that whole India has politically got tinctured in the shade of saffron due to the political dominance of the BJP stimulated by the personality charisma of Narendra Modi. The study argues that the illusion of establishing homogenous nationalism in India by provoking the sentiments of religious majority is not acceptable to ethnic minorities in India. The ethno-religious minorities, i.e. Muslims in the Kashmir region and Sikhs in Punjab, as well as the ethno-linguistic minority of Tamils in Tamil Nadu, have expressed their strong reaction against the Hindu and Hindi nationalism of the BJP.
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