Ethnic Boundaries and Class Consciousness within Malaysian Employment Sector
This article seeks to investigate the importance of ethnicity inthe Malaysian employment sector and its intersection with social class. Thisemphasis is important due to the changes in Malaysia’s post-independenceeconomic structures and the ‘unchangeable’ nature of ethnic concentrationin the country’...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Intellectual discourse
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 207-229 |
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| Summary: | This article seeks to investigate the importance of ethnicity inthe Malaysian employment sector and its intersection with social class. Thisemphasis is important due to the changes in Malaysia’s post-independenceeconomic structures and the ‘unchangeable’ nature of ethnic concentrationin the country’s new employment sectors. The study is based on fifty-five indepthinterviews conducted among the Malay and Chinese Malaysian ethnicgroups residing in Penang, Malaysia and Glasgow, United Kingdom. Datawere analysed using thematic analysis and discussions were based on thepost-colonialism theory and constructivism. The results suggested that therewas a dialectical relationship between ethnicity and class awareness in therespondents’ understanding of the present-day Malaysian ethnic segregationsof labour. Top-down ethnic bureaucratisation and everyday cultural boundariesemphasise the significance of ethnicity and inter-ethnic group relations in theMalaysian employment sector. On the other hand, social capital was found toaddress individual and intra-ethnic class relations in this sector. |
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| ISSN: | 2289-5639 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Intellectual discourse
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