Singapore's Baweanese : making sense of a Malay sub-ethnic group identity

• Main Author: Muhammad Afiq Mohd Yusoff
• Other Authors: Md Saidul Islam
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62401
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper explores the identity negotiations of the Baweanese in Singapore, one of the many sub-ethnic groups that make up the Malay racial category. The paper shows that race and ethnicity are are very salient sites of identity in the everyday lives of Singaporeans. Yet, the simple CMIO racial cat...