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Multiculturalism in Asia / edited by Will Kymlicka and Baogang He.

Contributor(s): Kymlicka, Will | He, Baogang, 1957-.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: xi, 364 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 019927763X (pbk.); 97801992777636 (pbk.).Subject(s): Multiculturalism -- AsiaDDC classification: 305.80095
Contents:
Liberal multiculturalism : western models, global trends, and Asian debates / Will Kymlicka -- Minority rights with Chinese characteristics / Baogang He -- A liberal model of minority rights for an illiberal multiethnic state? The case of Lao PDR / Vatthana Pholsena -- Subjects of the nation without citizenship : the case of 'hill tribes' in Thailand / Mika Toyota -- Liberal and structural ethnic political accommodation in Malaysia / N. Ganesan -- Normative pluralism in Indonesia : regions, religions, and ethnicities / John Bowen -- The cost of membership in ascribed community / Chua Beng Huat -- Justice for migrant workers? The case of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore / Daniel A. Bell and Nicola Piper -- At the margins of a liberal-democratic state : ethnic minorities in Japan / Lam Peng-Er -- Multination federalism and minority rights in Sri Lanka / Rohan Edrisinha -- Burma/Myanmar : struggle for democracy and ethnic rights / Alan Smith -- Indian exceptionalism or Indian model : negotiating cultural diversity and minority rights in a democratic nation-state / Gurpreet Mahajan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Liberal multiculturalism : western models, global trends, and Asian debates / Will Kymlicka -- Minority rights with Chinese characteristics / Baogang He -- A liberal model of minority rights for an illiberal multiethnic state? The case of Lao PDR / Vatthana Pholsena -- Subjects of the nation without citizenship : the case of 'hill tribes' in Thailand / Mika Toyota -- Liberal and structural ethnic political accommodation in Malaysia / N. Ganesan -- Normative pluralism in Indonesia : regions, religions, and ethnicities / John Bowen -- The cost of membership in ascribed community / Chua Beng Huat -- Justice for migrant workers? The case of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore / Daniel A. Bell and Nicola Piper -- At the margins of a liberal-democratic state : ethnic minorities in Japan / Lam Peng-Er -- Multination federalism and minority rights in Sri Lanka / Rohan Edrisinha -- Burma/Myanmar : struggle for democracy and ethnic rights / Alan Smith -- Indian exceptionalism or Indian model : negotiating cultural diversity and minority rights in a democratic nation-state / Gurpreet Mahajan.