‘We are people of the Islands’: translocal belonging among the ethnic Chinese of the Riau Islands

IF 0.9 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES

Asian Ethnicity Pub Date : 2022-04-28 DOI:10.1080/14631369.2022.2069082

Charlotte Setijadi

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The Riau Islands Chinese are an anomaly in the study of Chinese Indonesians. For one, while many of their ethnic Chinese counterparts in other parts of Indonesia can no longer speak Chinese due to the New Order regime’s assimilation policy, Chinese languages are alive and well in the Riau Islands. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2017–2018, this paper seeks to understand the Riau Islands Chinese’s cultural resilience and sense of belonging as a borderland ethnic minority. I argue that long-standing inter-Island and cross-border mobilities and cultural flows with Singapore have been central to the maintenance of Riau Islands Chinese identity. Utilising translocality as a theoretical framework to understand the processes of identity formation and place-making that transcend national borders, I contend that the case study of the Riau Islands Chinese challenges the conventional state-centric modes of analyses prevalent in the study of ethnic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia.

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“我们是群岛的人民”:属于廖内群岛华人的跨地方归属

廖内群岛华人是印尼华人研究中的一个异类。首先，由于新秩序政权的同化政策，印度尼西亚其他地区的许多华人同胞不再说中文，但中文在廖内群岛仍然活跃。本文基于2017-2018年的民族志田野调查，试图了解廖内群岛华人作为边疆少数民族的文化弹性和归属感。我认为，长期以来的岛屿间和跨境流动以及与新加坡的文化流动，是维持廖内群岛华人身份认同的核心。利用跨地域作为理论框架来理解超越国界的身份形成和场所形成过程，我认为廖内群岛华人的案例研究挑战了东南亚华人社区研究中普遍存在的传统的以国家为中心的分析模式。

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Asian Ethnicity PHYSIOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.80

自引率

6.20%

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期刊介绍： In the twenty-first century ethnic issues have assumed importance in many parts of the world. Until recently, questions of Asian ethnicity and identity have been treated in a balkanized fashion, with anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists and others publishing their studies in single-discipline journals. Asian Ethnicity provides a cross-disciplinary, international venue for the publication of well-researched articles about ethnic groups and ethnic relations in the half of the world where questions of ethnicity now loom largest. Asian Ethnicity covers any time period, although the greatest focus is expected to be on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.