World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

General

Castellino, J. and Domínguez Redondo, E., Minority Rights in Asia: A Legal Comparative Analysis, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Chin, Ung-Ho (Chin, J.), Chinese Politics in Sarawak, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Colin, N., The Orang Asli of Peninsula Malaysia, Malaysia, Center for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC), 1997.

Gatsiounis, I., ‘Malaysia moving backward on human rights’, Asia Times Online, 20 July 2006, URL: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HG20Ae01.html

Hong, E., Natives of Sarawak: Survival in Borneo’s Vanishing Forests, Penang, Institute Masyarakat, 1988.

Human Rights in Malaysia: http://www.aliran.com/oldsite/hr/index.html

Jesudason, J.V., Ethnicity and the Economy: the State, Chinese Business and Multinationals in Malaysia, Singapore, Oxford University Press, 1989.

King, V.T. and Parnwell, M.J. (eds), Margins and Minorities: The Peripheral Areas and Peoples of Malaysia, Hull, Hull University Press, 1990.

Lee, R., Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in Malaysia, De Kalb, Northern Illinois University Press, 1986.

Somers Heidhues, M. et al., The Chinese of South-East Asia, London, MRG, 1992.

Hefner, R. (ed.), The Politics of Multiracialism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2001.

Thomas, T., ‘Human rights in 21st-century Malaysia’, Insaf, The Journal of the Malaysian Bar, vol. 30, no. 2, June 2001, pp. 91–106, URL: www.aliran.com/oldsite/hr/tt4.html

Wong, S., ‘Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore’, Helium, URL: www.helium.com/tm/81482

Zubaidah Rahim, L., ‘Minorities and the state in Malaysia and Singapore’, paper for the UN Working Group on the Rights of Minorities, UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.5/2003/WP.12, 5 May 2003, URL: http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/e06a5300f90fa0238025668700518ca4/1fe99cab7bce1386c1256d25004c0787/$FILE/G0314161.pdf

Chinese

Chin, Ung-Ho (Chin, J.), Chinese Politics in Sarawak, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Chin, Ung-Ho, The Chinese of Southeast Asia, London, Minority Rights Group, 2000.
Heng, Pek Koon, ‘The New Economic Policy and the Chinese community in peninsular Malaysia’, The Developing Economies, vol. 35, no. 3, 1997, pp. 262–92, URL: www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/De/pdf/97_03_03.pdf

Heng, Pek Koon, Chinese Politics in Malaysia: A History of the Malaysian Chinese Association, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Jesudason, J., Ethnicity and the Economy: the State, Chinese Business and Multinationals in Malaysia, Singapore, Oxford University Press, 1989.

Kua, Kia Soong, A Protean Saga: The Chinese Schools of Malaysia, 3rd edn, Selangor, Dong Jiao Zong Higher Learning Centre, 1999 (first published 1985).

Lee, K.H. and Tan, C.B. (eds), The Chinese in Malaysia, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Ling, Liong Sik et al., The Future of Malaysian Chinese, Petaling Jaya, Pelanduk Publications, 1988.

Ling, Liong Sik, The Malaysian Chinese: Towards Vision 2020, Petaling Jaya, Pelanduk Publications, 1995.

Purcell, V., The Chinese in Southeast Asia, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981.

Somers Heidhues, M. et al., The Chinese of South-East Asia, London, MRG, 1992.

Tan, Chee-Beng, Chinese Minority in a Malay State: The Case of Terengganu in Malaysia, Singapore, Eastern University Press, 2003.

Ye, Lin-Sheng, The Chinese Dilemma, Kingsford, NSW, East West Publishing, 2003.

Indian

Ampalavanar, R., The Indian Minority and Political Change in Malaya 1945–1957, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981.

Arasaratnam, S., Indians in Malaysia and Singapore, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1979.

Jain, R., Culture and Economy: Tamils on the Plantation Frontier in Malaysia Revisited, 1998/99, New Delhi, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2000, URL: www.tamilnation.org/diaspora/malaysia/ravijain.pdf

Kuppuswamy, C.S., ‘Ethnic tensions in Malaysia: a wake-up call for the Malaysian Indian Congress’, South Asia Analysis Group Paper no. 213, 20 March 2001, URL: http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper213.htm

Kuppuswamy, C.S., ‘Malaysian Indians: the third class race’, South Asia Analysis Group Paper no. 618, 28 February 2003, URL: http://www.saag.org/papers7/paper618.html

Schiffman, H., ‘Language shift in the Tamil communities of Malaysia and Singapore: the paradox of egalitarian language policy’, Special Issue on Language Loss and Public Policy (G. Bills, ed.), Southwest Journal of Linguistics, vol. 14, nos 1–2, 1996, URL: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/540/handouts/sparadox/sparadox.html

Spaeth, A., ‘A heritage denied: decades of official discrimination have turned Malaysia’s ethnic Indians into a disgruntled underclass’, TimeAsia, 21 August 2000, URL: www.time.com/time/asia/features/ontheroad/malaysia.dilemma.html

Stenson, M., Class, Race and Colonialism in West Malaysia: The Indian Case, Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1980.

Tamil Diaspora Malaysia: www.tamilnation.org/diaspora/malaysia.htm

Orang Asli

Asian Indigenous and Tribal People’s Network (AITPN) ‘Orang Asli’s rights: Malaysia’s federal court faces acid test’, Indigenous Rights Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1, April–June 2006, URL: http://www.aitpn.org/Issues/II-03-06-Orang.pdf

Baer, A. et al., Orang Asli Women of Malaysia: Perceptions, Situations and Aspirations, Subang Jaya, Center for Orang Asli Concerns, 2006.

Gomes, A., Looking for Money: Capitalism and Modernity in an Orang Asli Village, Subang Jaya/ Melbourne, Center for Orang Asli Concerns/Trans Pacific Press, Melbourne, 2004.

Jennings, S., The Senoi Temiar, London, Routledge, 1995.

Nicholas, C. and Williams-Hunt, A., ‘Orang Asli’, in J. K. Sundram and S.K. Ng (eds) Malaysia’s Economic Development: Policy and Reform, Petaling Jaya, Pelanduk Publications, 1996.

Nicholas, C., ‘The Orang Asli of peninsular Malaysia’, Center for Orang Asli Concerns, 1997, URL: http://www.magickriver.net/oa.htm

Nicholas, C., The Orang Asli and the Contest for Resources: Orang Asli Politics, Development and Identity in Peninsular Malaysia, Copenahgen/Subang Jaya, International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs/Center for Orang Asli Concerns, 2004.

Orang Asli Archives: www.keene.edu/library/orangasli

Santharamohana, M., Knowledge, culture and beliefs of the Semelai people in Tasek Bera, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Wetlands International, 2002.

Temiar Web: www.temiar.com

Weber, G., ‘The Negrito of Malaysia: the Semang’, 2006, URL: www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter35/text35.htm

Yong Ooi Lin, C., Flowed Over: The Babagon Dam and the Resettlement of the Kadazandusun in Sabah, Petaling Jaya, Centre for Orang Asli Concerns, 2003.

Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in Sabah

Devasish Roy, R., Traditional Customary Laws and Indigenous Peoples in Asia, London, MRG, 2005, URL: http://www.minorityrights.org/?lid=1018

Ibrahim, Z., Voices of the Crocker Range Indigenous Communities Sabah: Social Narratives of Transition in Tambunan and its Neighbours, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 2001.

Waddington, R., ‘The Bajau’, Indigenous Peoples of the World Foundation, URL: www.peoplesoftheworld.org/text?people=Bajau

Kadazandusun Information Portal: www.kadazandusun.net

Lasimbang, C., ‘Indigenous peoples of Sabah: traditional resource management, indigenous rights’, in the Commonwealth Project, South and South-East Asia Regional Expert Meeting, India International Centre, New Delhi, 2002, URL: www.cpsu.org.uk/downloads/Claudia_.pdf

Lasimbang, J., ‘The Indigenous Peoples of Sabah’, in C. Nicholas and R. Singh (eds), Indigenous Peoples of Asia: Many Peoples, One Struggle, Chiang Mai, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, 1996.

Lasimbang, J., ‘Malaysia report on indigenous peoples and protected areas’, submitted to Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group on Protected Areas, United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, 2006, URL: http://www.aippfoundation.org/documents/Malaysia%20Report%20on%20IPs%20and%20PAs%5BFINAL%5D.pdf

Sadiq, K., ‘When states prefer non-citizens over citizens: conflict over illegal immigration into Malaysia’, International Studies Quarterly, vol. 49, 2005, pp. 101–122, URL: http://www.cri.uci.edu/pdf/ISQ2005FinalCopy.pdf

Sather, C., The Bajau Laut: Adaptation, History, and Fate in a Maritime Fishing Society of South-Eastern Sabah, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997.

The People of Sabah: www.sabah.org.my

Yamamoto, H., ‘The emergence of Bajau identity in British North Borneo (Sabah)’, Southeast Asia: History and Culture, 31 May 2002.

Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in Sarawak

Buma, M., Iban Customs and Traditions, Kuching, Borneo Publications, 1987.
Cramb, R.A. and Wills, I.R., ‘Private property, common property, and collective choice: the evolution of Iban land tenure institutions’, Borneo Research Bulletin vol. 29, 1998, pp. 57–70.

Davis, W., MacKenzie, I. and Kennedy, S., Nomads of the Dawn: The Penan of the Borneo Rain Forest, San Francisco, CA, Pomegranate, 1995.

Devasish Roy, R., Traditional Customary Laws and Indigenous Peoples in Asia, London, MRG, 2005, URL: http://www.minorityrights.org/?lid=1018

Endicott, K., ‘Indigenous rights issues in Malaysia’, in B. Dean and J.M. Levi (eds), At the Risk of Being Heard: Identity, Indigenous Rights, and Postcolonial States, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2003.

Hong, E., Natives of Sarawak: Survival in Borneo’s Vanishing Forest, Penang, Institut Masyarakat, 1987.

‘Iban of Sarawak’: www.archaeolink.com/iban_of_sarawak_indigenous_asia_.htm

King, V., ‘Indigenous peoples and land rights in Sarawak, Malaysia: to be or not to be a Bumiputra’, in R.H. Barnes, A. Gray and B. Kingsbury (eds), Indigenous Peoples of Asia, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Phoa, J., ‘The Dayaks and Orang Ulu of Sarawak’, in C. Nicholas and R. Singh (eds), Indigenous Peoples of Asia: Many Peoples, One Struggle, Chiang Mai, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, 1996.

Postill, J., ‘The mediated production of ethnicity and nationalism among the Iban of Sarawak, 1977–1997’, Borneo Research Bulletin, 2002, URL: http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-1565310_ITM

Rengah Sarawak – Sarawak News: www.rengah.c2o.org

‘Sarawak – Orang Ulu Fight Logging’, Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 4, 31 December 1987, URL: www.cs.org/publications/Csq/csq-article.cfm?id=747

Sarawak Peoples Campaign: www.rimba.com/spc/spcpenanmain1.html

Sutlive, V. and Sutlive, J. (eds), The Encyclopaedia of Iban Studies, Iban History, Society, and Culture, Tun Jugah Foundation and Borneo Research Council, 2001.

Coalition of Concerned NGOs on Bakun (Gabungan) Malaysia, ‘The resettlement of indigenous people affected by the Bakun Hydro-Electric Project, Sarawak, Malaysia, Cape Town, South Africa, World Commission on Dams, December 1999. 

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