This book analyses a globalized Malaysia that spans beyond its multicultural population often formulated as Malays, Chinese, Indians and Others. Focusing on new ethnoscapes consisting of migrant workers, refugees, international students and foreign spouses, it asks how these transnationals find ways of belonging: either as non-Malaysians living in Malaysia or Malaysians in Australia. What strategies of citizenship do they enact?

This book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.

1. Introduction: theorizing different forms of belonging in a cosmopolitan Malaysia Gaik Cheng Khoo 2. Arabs in the urban social landscapes of Malaysia: historical connections and belonging Sumit K. Mandal 3. Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction: Taiwanese wives making citizenship claims in Malaysia Heng Leng Chee, Melody C.W. Lu and Brenda S.A. Yeoh 4. Urban refugees in a graduated sovereignty: the experiences of the stateless Rohingya in the Klang Valley Avyanthi Azis 5. African international students in Klang Valley: colonial legacies, postcolonial racialization, and sub-citizenship Timothy P. Daniels 6. Place-making: Chin refugees, citizenship and the state in Malaysia Gerhard Hoffstaedter 7. Intimate encounters: the ambiguities of belonging in the transnational migration of Indonesian domestic workers to Malaysia Olivia Killias 8. Jom Bersih! Global Bersih and the enactment of Malaysian citizenship in Melbourne Julian C.H. Lee

Gaik Cheng Khoo teaches Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. She publishes on Malaysian film, food and identity.

Julian C.H. Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, and member of the Centre for Global Research, RMIT University. He publishes on Malaysian civil society, democracy and multiculturalism.