Diversity management and the presumptive universality of categories : the case of the Indians in Singapore

• Main Authors: Jain, Ritu, Wee, Lionel
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Sociology::Communities, classes and races; Linguistic Categories; Decolonial Perspective
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137173
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Increasing societal and linguistic diversity poses significant challenges to formative categories of language policies. We make this point via an examination of Singapore's management of its most linguistically diverse ethnic group, the Indians. While heterogeneity has always been Singapore’s d...