Indians and rural displacement: exclusion from region building in Malaysia

• 主要作者: Anantha Raman Govindasamy
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: Routledge 2010
• 主題: JQ Political institutions and public administration (Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific Area, etc.)
• 在線閱讀: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20668/1/Indians%20and%20rural%20displacement.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20668/; https://doi.org/10.1080/02185371003669387

Building regions often creates socio-economic imbalances that exclude low-income earners from the benefits of development. In Malaysia, an example of this is the territorial and cultural displacement of Indian plantation workers by rapid economic growth and urbanisation. Since 1980, nearly 300,000 I...