Race, Education, and Citizenship, 1st ed. 2017 Mobile Malaysians, British Colonial Legacies, and a Culture of Migration Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series

Transnational skilled migrants are often thought of as privileged migrants with flexible citizenship. This book challenges this assumption by examining the diverse migration trajectories, experiences and dilemmas faced by tertiary-educated mobile Malaysian migrants through a postcolonial lens. It argues that mobile Malaysians? culture of migration can be understood as an outcome and consequence of British colonial legacies ? of race, education, and citizenship ? inherited and exacerbated by the post-colonial Malaysian state. Drawing from archival research and interviews with respondents in Singapore, United Kingdom, and Malaysia, this book examines how mobile Malaysians make sense of their migration lives, and contextualizes their stories to the broader socio-political structures in colonial Malaya and post-colonial Malaysia. Showing how legacies of colonialism initiate, facilitate, and propagate migration in a multi-ethnic, post-colonial migrant-sending country beyond the end of colonial rule, this text is a key read for scholars of migration, citizenship, ethnicity, nationalism and postcolonialism.

Introduction.- British colonial legacies and the making of Malay(si)a.- A culture of migration.- Education-migration pathways and the (re)production of race.- Interpreting and practising citizenship.- Returning to Malaysia?.- Conclusion: Postcolonialising a culture of migration.

Places mobile Malaysians’ migration geographies in the context of a culture of migration developed alongside the British colonial legacies of race, education, and citizenship Considers the role of race and education has become a key factor in institutionalising mobile Malaysians' migration Shows how legacies of colonialism initiate and propagate migration