Immigration without diversity: the invisible second generation in Singapore
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ABSTRACT Singapore is a migrant nation. However, recent immigration trends are engendering new forms of diversity that remain latent because of the reductive ways in which ethnoracial difference is categorized in the city–state. This latency is generated through homogenizing the ethnoracial identities of the children of migrants. In contrast to the majority of work that has primarily been done in the United States and Western Europe, the “second generation” in Singapore has not been extensively researched. Interrogating these complexities, this paper is interested in understanding how ethnonational and intra-racial differences play out in the politics of identification and nation-building in a young postcolonial state like Singapore. It is demonstrated that despite ethnoracial assimilation, integration into the nation is still fraught. Understanding this under-researched population yields important insights into questions of ethnonational belonging and the geopolitics of Asian migration and nationalism.
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Laavanya Kathiravelu
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