Introducing a Transnational Perspective : An Alternative Analytical Framework for Understanding the Border Dynamics of Sabah, East Malaysia

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While witnessing a massive and constant flow of people across national boundaries around Sabah, East Malaysia, we always look at the phenomenon using the "nation-state" as the analytical framework, in which we assume "mono-affiliation" to one particular nation-state or ethnic group to be the norm. This "nation-state" analytical framework of socio-cultural dynamics leads us to neglect the fact that migrants more often than not keep and manipulate multiple networks and affiliations beyond national boundaries. This reality has forced on us the need to rectify the existing analytical framework, as we need an alternative method to better articulate "multiple-affiliation," or the partible national and/or ethnic identities of migrants. In this paper, I will first outline the recent shift in the analytical framework in migration studies towards "transnationalism," which has been conceptualized to formulate "multiple-affiliation." Then I will demonstrate how a transnational analytical framework can shed new light on so-far neglected aspects of the socio-cultural dynamics of Sabah, East Malaysia.
成城大学の論文
2005-12-20