Ghost lives of the Pendatang : informality and cosmopolitan contaminations in urban Malaysia / Parthiban Muniandy.
Muniandy, Parthiban.
2021
HD8700.6
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Title Ghost lives of the Pendatang : informality and cosmopolitan contaminations in urban Malaysia / Parthiban Muniandy.
Author Muniandy, Parthiban.
ISBN 9789813362000 (electronic bk.)
9813362006 (electronic bk.)
9813361999
9789813361997
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6200-0
Imprint Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-33-6200-0 doi
Call Number HD8700.6
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.9069109595
Summary This book is an ethnographic study of migrants, refugees and 'temporary' people in Malaysia, incorporating narratives, personal stories, and observations of everyday life in Kuala Lumpur and Georgetown, Penang. Rather than focusing on specific migrant communities or refugee 'camps', the book takes subaltern cosmopolitanism as its central lens to look at how different and diverse communities of non-citizen 'pendatang' (aliens) co-habit, work and live together in Malaysia. Urban centers in Malaysia offer the space for informality that allow stateless and undocumented people to seek out opportunities, while also finding ways to assimilate or even 'disappear' into the fabric of society. The book focuses on the notion of 'contaminations', rather than migration or migrants, to underscore one of the most important findings of the ethnographic study - that migrant life in Malaysia is critically integral, embedded and interwoven into the everyday life in the city - shaping and affecting all aspects of daily life from production and supply chains, food service networks, cultural and religious practices, waste and recycling work, to more intimate and private contexts such as romantic relationships, family life and sex-work. Hybridity, inter-mixing and bastardization are part and parcel of everyday urbanism in KL and Penang - these 'contaminating elements' challenge and disrupt categories of the 'national' and categories such as insider/outsider, national purity, and politically constructed divisions between ethnic and racial groups. The book thus relies upon detailed ethnographic narratives curated over a decade of study, offering students interested in fieldwork research insights into the types of engagements and commitments necessary for helping build the complex, uneasy and destabilizing knowledge that characterizes critical ethnography. Parthiban Muniandy is a full-time faculty in Sociology and Faculty Director at Sarah Lawrence College for the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education, an initiative funded by the Mellon foundation. His areas of teaching and research expertise are in transnational migration & border studies, research methods, urban studies, and refugee studies. His first book, Politics of the Temporary: Ethnography of Migrant Life in Urban Malaysia, was published in 2014.
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Series Palgrave Macmillan studies on human rights in Asia.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Informality and Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Urban Malaysia
Chapter 2: Life in the Kongsi settlements of Kuala Lumpur and Penang
Chapter 3: Seeking Refuge in Invisibility
Rohingya Communities in Malaysia
Chapter 4: Transitory States
Women and Gender in the Shadows
Chapter 5: Love, Friendships and Cosmopolitan Contaminations.

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