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Fifty-five years ago the Republic of Indonesia was founded on the motto Bhinneka tunggal ika (unity in diversity). Today unity has all but distintegrated as separatism and ethnic conflict tear at the nation's political and social fabric. This paper explores the historical foundations of ethno-nationalism with reference to the perspectives of Riau Malays. It argues that current conflict is not the result of recent phenomena, as is so often reported in the media, but is the surfacing of fault-lines that have long lain beneath the seemingly unified nation-state. (...) (Pac Rev/DÜI)

Presenting new research findings on undocumented Indonesian migrant workers in Macau, this article explicates the dovetailing arrangements between public and private sector interests that are systemically creating undocumented labor migration flows. It then shows how these arrangements are structurally inherent in the mutual competitiveness of globalizing nodes of wealth creation. Undocumented migration cheapens production costs and results in a flexible black market of vulnerable, right-less, and exploited workers. Contrary to illusions of an urbanizing Asia with expanding spaces for civil liberties, the development of globally competitive megacities, built and supported by low-skilled migrant workers, rests on a global underclass of transient workers who bear the human costs of transience and labor flexibility, enabling megacities to externalize such costs and enhance their global competitiveness. The article analyzes the vulnerabilities of undocumented Indonesian workers in the context of Macau's rapid economic development as an aspiring megacity The Macau government's laissez-faire tolerance of such workers is grounded in its need for human labor that is abundant, cheap, marginal, and disposable. The flow of Indonesian migrant workers into Macau is linked to Hong Kong's exclusionary immigration policies, which aim at extricating surplus migrant labor. Meanwhile, the Indonesian government refuses responsibility for its migrant workers in Macau because Macau is not recognized as an official destination. The article shows how public and private interests motivate increasing numbers of migrants to become undocumented overstayers in Macau, as they try to avoid oppressive practices in labor migration from Indonesia and the exclusionary policies of Hong Kong. (Crit Asian Stud/GIGA)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHILDREN AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE -- Introduction Children and the Politics of Culture in "Late Capitalism" -- PART ONE: CHILDREN AND CHILDHOODS AT RISK IN THE "NEW WORLD ORDER" -- Chapter One The Child as Laborer and Consumer: The Disappearance of Childhood in Contemporary Japan -- Chapter Two Have You Seen Me? Recovering the Inner Child in Late Twentieth-Century America -- Chapter Three Children's Rights in a Free-Market Culture -- PART TWO: CHILDREN, CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND THE STATE -- Chapter Four Children in the Examination War in South Korea: A Cultural Analysis -- Chapter Five Children's Stories and the State in New Order Indonesia -- Chapter Six Children, Population Policy, and the State in Singapore -- Chapter Seven Youth and the Politics of Culture in South Africa -- PART THREE: CHILDREN AND THE POLITICS OF MINORITY CULTURAL IDENTITY -- Chapter Eight "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian": The Politics of Identity among British-Sikh Teenagers -- Chapter Nine Second-Generation Noncitizens: Children of the Turkish Migrant Diaspora in Germany -- Chapter Ten Children, Politics, and Culture: The Case of Brazilian Indians -- Chapter Eleven The "Cultural Fallout" of Chernobyl Radiation in Norwegian Sami Regions: Implications for Children -- PART FOUR: THE RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD? -- Chapter Twelve Recovering Childhood: Children in South African National Reconstruction -- Appendix The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- About the Contributors -- Index