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Conclusion: Postcolonialising a Culture of Migration

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This concluding chapter argues that mobile Malaysians’ culture of migration is primarily education-led and entails migration and citizenship practices that cannot be simplistically interpreted as flexible citizenship strategies. Adopting a post-colonial lens on the Malaysian case highlights the importance of paying attention to race, historicity, and contextualised meanings of ‘citizenship’ and ‘migration’. It also highlights the methodological utility of contextualising ethnographic data with archival research. In designing return migration policies, the Malaysian government should consider the policies which have led to mobile Malaysians’ emigration in the first place (e.g. education, race, and minority rights). Future research may examine the relationships between migration and the stratifying factors of education streams, sub-national geographies of origin, temporalities of migration, as well as class and other axes of intersectionality.

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Koh, S.Y. (2017). Conclusion: Postcolonialising a Culture of Migration. In: Race, Education, and Citizenship. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50344-2_7

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