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Article: Addressing Myanmar’s Citizenship Crisis
Title | Addressing Myanmar’s Citizenship Crisis |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Burma citizenship ethnicity multiculturalism Myanmar race |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjoc20/current |
Citation | Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2014, v. 44 n. 3, p. 404-421 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Among many problematic issues surfacing in reformist Myanmar is a citizenship crisis with four main dimensions. First, in a state with fragile civil liberties, skewed political rights and limited social rights, there is a broad curtailment of citizenship. Second, Rohingya Muslims living mainly in Rakhine State are denied citizenship, and other Muslims throughout the country are increasingly affected by this denial. Third, designated ethnic minorities clustered in peripheral areas face targeted restrictions of citizenship. Fourth, the dominant Bamar majority concentrated in the national heartland tends to arrogate or appropriate citizenship. The result is growing social tension that threatens to undermine the wider reform process. To examine this crisis, the article sets Myanmar in a comparative context. In particular, it considers how multicultural states in the developed world have sought to manage a political switch from racial or ethnic hierarchy to democratic citizenship. Drawing on global experience with multiculturalism and enabling civic integration, it advances a series of policy options focused on rights, duties and identity. It argues for domestic political leadership, backed by global political support, to address Myanmar’s citizenship crisis. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/203349 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.0 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.785 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Holliday, IM | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-19T14:13:26Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-19T14:13:26Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2014, v. 44 n. 3, p. 404-421 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0047-2336 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/203349 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Among many problematic issues surfacing in reformist Myanmar is a citizenship crisis with four main dimensions. First, in a state with fragile civil liberties, skewed political rights and limited social rights, there is a broad curtailment of citizenship. Second, Rohingya Muslims living mainly in Rakhine State are denied citizenship, and other Muslims throughout the country are increasingly affected by this denial. Third, designated ethnic minorities clustered in peripheral areas face targeted restrictions of citizenship. Fourth, the dominant Bamar majority concentrated in the national heartland tends to arrogate or appropriate citizenship. The result is growing social tension that threatens to undermine the wider reform process. To examine this crisis, the article sets Myanmar in a comparative context. In particular, it considers how multicultural states in the developed world have sought to manage a political switch from racial or ethnic hierarchy to democratic citizenship. Drawing on global experience with multiculturalism and enabling civic integration, it advances a series of policy options focused on rights, duties and identity. It argues for domestic political leadership, backed by global political support, to address Myanmar’s citizenship crisis. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjoc20/current | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Contemporary Asia | en_US |
dc.rights | PREPRINT This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the [JOURNAL TITLE] [year of publication] [copyright Taylor & Francis]; [JOURNAL TITLE] is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open URL of your article POSTPRINT ‘This is an electronic version of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the article as published in the print edition of the journal]. [JOURNAL TITLE] is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open URL of your article. | en_US |
dc.subject | Burma | - |
dc.subject | citizenship | - |
dc.subject | ethnicity | - |
dc.subject | multiculturalism | - |
dc.subject | Myanmar | - |
dc.subject | race | - |
dc.title | Addressing Myanmar’s Citizenship Crisis | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Holliday, IM: hollid@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Holliday, IM=rp00067 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/00472336.2013.877957 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84901625488 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 238418 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 44 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 404 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 421 | en_US |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1752-7554 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000337579000003 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Abingdon | en_US |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0047-2336 | - |