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Ghost Lives of the Pendatang - Informality and Cosmopolitan Contaminations in Urban Malaysia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Ghost Lives of the Pendatang - Informality and Cosmopolitan Contaminations in Urban Malaysia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies on Human Rights in Asia
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This book is an ethnographic study of migrants, refugees and
'temporary' people in Malaysia, incorporating narratives, personal
stories, and observations of everyday life in Kuala Lumpur and
Georgetown, Penang. Rather than focusing on specific migrant
communities or refugee 'camps', the book takes subaltern
cosmopolitanism as its central lens to look at how different and
diverse communities of non-citizen 'pendatang' (aliens) co-habit,
work and live together in Malaysia. Urban centers in Malaysia offer
the space for informality that allow stateless and undocumented
people to seek out opportunities, while also finding ways to
assimilate or even 'disappear' into the fabric of society. The book
focuses on the notion of 'contaminations', rather than migration or
migrants, to underscore one of the most important findings of the
ethnographic study - that migrant life in Malaysia is critically
integral, embedded and interwoven into the everyday life in the
city - shaping and affecting all aspects of daily life from
production and supply chains, food service networks, cultural and
religious practices, waste and recycling work, to more intimate and
private contexts such as romantic relationships, family life and
sex-work. Hybridity, inter-mixing and bastardization are part and
parcel of everyday urbanism in KL and Penang - these 'contaminating
elements' challenge and disrupt categories of the 'national' and
categories such as insider/outsider, national purity, and
politically constructed divisions between ethnic and racial groups.
The book thus relies upon detailed ethnographic narratives curated
over a decade of study, offering students interested in fieldwork
research insights into the types of engagements and commitments
necessary for helping build the complex, uneasy and destabilizing
knowledge that characterizes critical ethnography.
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