Citizenship in the Peripheries: Identities in SE Asia (Mini-Conference 3/3)

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Under what conditions do coethnics in the periphery cease to identify as citizens of the larger nation-state? There is a trend in the extant literature to focus empirically on groups where we already observe demands or non-institutional behavior. Alternatively, scholars tend to examine groups that are ethnically distinct for that of the dominant, majority group. We contend these empirical strategies are plagued with selection biases – thereby limiting our understanding of the broader phenomenon. In our mini-conference, we propose to address these theoretical and empirical shortcomings. This mini-conference brings together fifteen scholars, each examining a different administrative region within a country in Southeast Asia. These papers employ a diverse set of methods – including comparative historical analysis, conjoined experiments, surveys, and text analysis. Theoretically, these papers also speak to the literature on populism – one of the APSA themes for this year’s conference. Understanding the relationship between regionalism, citizenship, and populism is imperative. As a final note, we constructed each panel to reflect some gender balance. No panel has fewer than two women presenting. Additionally, there is at least one female discussant on each panel.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 52: Migration and Citizenship

Cosponsor

• Related Groups / Southeast Asian Politics Group

Individual Presentations

• Ethnic and Sub-Ethnic Nationalist Mobilization of Ethnic Citizens in Myanmar - Alexandre Pelletier, Cornell University

• Khmer Expansion into Jarai and Tumpuon Communities in Borderland Cambodia - Erin Lin, Ohio State University

• The Rohingya Refugee Crisis, Rakhine Regionalism, and Burmese Nationalism - Hyo-Won Shin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Homogenizing Ethnicity and Diversifying Nationalism: Taiwan's North-South Divide - Chun-Ying Wu

Chair

• Jacob Isaac Ricks Singapore Management University

Discussants

• June Teufel Dreyer University of Miami

• Dan Slater University of Michigan