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Race, Education, and Citizenship

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This chapter discusses the three colonial legacies of race, education, and citizenship/nationality in the Malaysian context using a post colonial perspective. It traces thematically the intertwined developments of these three colonial legacies over the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial period. The first theme focuses on the materialisation of race and Malay ‘indigeneity’. The second theme analyses the racialisation of citizenship, the institutionalisation of racial politics, and the securitisation of race. The third theme focuses on the development of a race-stratified national education system and an internalised aspiration for Western/overseas education. This chapter concludes with a post colonial discussion of the linkages between race, education, and citizenship, with particular emphasis on what their interconnections mean for migration.

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