Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia

2016-04-15 Social Science

Author : Nam-Kook Kim
Release : 2016-04-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia by : Nam-Kook Kim

Download or read book Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia written by Nam-Kook Kim. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and increased migration have brought both new opportunities and new tensions to traditional East Asian societies. Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia draws together a wide range of distinguished local scholars to discuss multiculturalism and the changing nature of social identity in East Asia. Regional specialists review specific events and situations in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines to provide a focus on life as it is lived at the local level whilst also tracing macro discourses on the national issues affected by multiculturalism and identity. The contributors look at the uneven multicultural development across these different countries and how to bridge the gap between locality and universality. They examine how ethnic majorities and minorities can achieve individual rights, exert civic responsibility, and explain how to construct a deliberative framework to make sustainable democracy possible. This book considers the emergence of a new cross-national network designed to address multicultural challenges and imagines an East Asian community with shared values of individual dignity and multicultural diversity. With strong empirical support it puts forward a regulative ideal by which a new paradigm for multicultural coexistence and regional cooperation can be realized.

Challenges to Multiculturalism: Managing Diversities in Europe and Southeast Asia

2020-08-14 Political Science

Author : Lay Hwee Yeo
Release : 2020-08-14
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Challenges to Multiculturalism: Managing Diversities in Europe and Southeast Asia written by Lay Hwee Yeo. This book was released on 2020-08-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines debates in Europe and Southeast Asia on issues pertaining to multiculturalism, migration and citizenship. Based on empirical cases in the two regions, the book explores the practices as well as the myths and misconceptions surrounding multiculturalism. Contributions to the book also highlight examples of policies balancing the interests of different cultures in society.With migration as a key issue confronting both European and Southeast Asian societies, there frequently is a discourse about migrants posing a 'threat' to national security, economic welfare, democratic citizenship and identity. Such negative attitudes towards migrants are further fuelled by the hardening of identity politics, political polarisation and populism, as well as the rise of intolerance and racism.Providing insights from qualitative, in-depth research and largely applying a comparative approach, the contributions to this book demonstrate the varied approaches adopted by European and Southeast Asian societies in accommodating and managing diversities and differences.

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