TY - JOUR
T1 - Temporalities of citizenship
T2 - Malaysian-Chinese skilled migrants in Singapore and returnees to Malaysia
AU - Koh, Sin Yee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/3/21
Y1 - 2015/3/21
N2 - This article examines the temporalities of citizenship-how the meanings and significance of citizenship change with time-through the cases of Malaysian-Chinese skilled migrants in Singapore and returnees to Malaysia. Drawing from the narratives of five respondents, this paper focuses on how the subjective, emotional, and rational understandings they ascribe to their citizenship(s) shift and change with time during their stays in Singapore or after their return to Malaysia. This article concludes by arguing that citizenship needs to be theorized and contextualized to time by simultaneously paying attention to firstly, the individual life course, and secondly, citizenship constitutions at the national scale.
AB - This article examines the temporalities of citizenship-how the meanings and significance of citizenship change with time-through the cases of Malaysian-Chinese skilled migrants in Singapore and returnees to Malaysia. Drawing from the narratives of five respondents, this paper focuses on how the subjective, emotional, and rational understandings they ascribe to their citizenship(s) shift and change with time during their stays in Singapore or after their return to Malaysia. This article concludes by arguing that citizenship needs to be theorized and contextualized to time by simultaneously paying attention to firstly, the individual life course, and secondly, citizenship constitutions at the national scale.
KW - Malaysia
KW - Malaysian-Chinese skilled migrations
KW - Singapore
KW - temporalities of citizenship
KW - time and migration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84928946343&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0117196814565158
DO - 10.1177/0117196814565158
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84928946343
SN - 0117-1968
VL - 24
SP - 3
EP - 27
JO - Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
JF - Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
IS - 1
ER -