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The Practice of ‘Othering' during COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: From the cities to the highlands

This paper attempts to throw light on the concept of ‘othering’ previously framed through the prism of identity politics. As COVID-19 continues to ravage our economy and social life, we turn to looking at two contested sites of the highland national borders and the urban cities to understand how the...

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Main Authors: Poline, Bala, Linda, Lumayag
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Language:English
Published: Transnational London Press 2021
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HM Sociology
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37383/1/1587
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37383/
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https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v18i6.1587
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spelling my.unimas.ir.373832022-04-20T00:04:38Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37383/ The Practice of ‘Othering' during COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: From the cities to the highlands Poline, Bala Linda, Lumayag HM Sociology This paper attempts to throw light on the concept of ‘othering’ previously framed through the prism of identity politics. As COVID-19 continues to ravage our economy and social life, we turn to looking at two contested sites of the highland national borders and the urban cities to understand how the ‘othering' idea manifests itself right when the pandemic began in late December 2019. The first situation is described in social media as Malaysia’s mass rage and xenophobic rants against Rohingya refugees and the second scenario is the closure of international borders between Sarawak and East Kalimantan in the uplands located in the northeast of Central Borneo. By analysing texts in the form of narratives, anecdotes and communication encountered through social media, the paper raised questions whether these were manifestations of specific forms of marginalisation of people based on perceived group differences or simply expressions of fear of COVID-19 disease and anxiety about scarcity of resources as a result of the pandemic. Transnational London Press 2021-11-30 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37383/1/1587 Poline, Bala and Linda, Lumayag (2021) The Practice of ‘Othering' during COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: From the cities to the highlands. Migration Letters, 18 (6). pp. 621-635. ISSN 1741-8984 https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/index https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v18i6.1587
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The Practice of ‘Othering' during COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: From the cities to the highlands
description This paper attempts to throw light on the concept of ‘othering’ previously framed through the prism of identity politics. As COVID-19 continues to ravage our economy and social life, we turn to looking at two contested sites of the highland national borders and the urban cities to understand how the ‘othering' idea manifests itself right when the pandemic began in late December 2019. The first situation is described in social media as Malaysia’s mass rage and xenophobic rants against Rohingya refugees and the second scenario is the closure of international borders between Sarawak and East Kalimantan in the uplands located in the northeast of Central Borneo. By analysing texts in the form of narratives, anecdotes and communication encountered through social media, the paper raised questions whether these were manifestations of specific forms of marginalisation of people based on perceived group differences or simply expressions of fear of COVID-19 disease and anxiety about scarcity of resources as a result of the pandemic.
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author Poline, Bala
Linda, Lumayag
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title The Practice of ‘Othering' during COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: From the cities to the highlands
title_short The Practice of ‘Othering' during COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: From the cities to the highlands
title_full The Practice of ‘Othering' during COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: From the cities to the highlands
title_fullStr The Practice of ‘Othering' during COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: From the cities to the highlands
title_full_unstemmed The Practice of ‘Othering' during COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: From the cities to the highlands
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url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37383/1/1587
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