Thursday, November 19 / 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM • Room 405 (4th Floor)

Session 17
Enclosure, Expulsion, and Nation-Making in Cold War Asia

Chair: Marcelo Borges, Dickinson College
Discussant: Marcelo Borges, Dickinson College

1. “The Problem of Ethnic Chinese in Decolonizing Singapore and Malaysia” • Madeline Hsu, University of Maryland.

2. When Ethnic Minorities Become National Majorities: Indentured Labor Migration, Ethnic Demographic Reversals, and Postcolonial Nation-Building in Fiji, Guyana, and Trinidad • Olukunle Owolabi, Villanova University.

3. “Repatriation Nation: India and Sri Lanka's Postwar Resettlement Programs, 1960 to the Present” • Kalyani Ramnath, Columbia.

4. "Redrawing the Imagined Border: Restricted Mobility and State-Sponsored Resettlements in Cold War Taiwan" • Dominic Yang, University of Missouri Columbia.

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