Thrilled to have presented my work on second generation Gulf immigrants in Doha Georgetown University in Qatar today.

A real tragedy

🎆 New paper out in SEN Journal, with Laavanya Kathiravelu 🎆

🧵 What can Singaporeans' continued intimacy with and subsciption to ghosts and cultural taboos tell us about nationalism?

I’ll present on “The Elastic Co-Ethnic: Multifaceted Southeast Asian Diaspora in early reform era Shenzhen” at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute 26 March 😊hope to see u online or in person iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/the…

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Dragon in Flushing looking hella auspicious today.

H/t: @Asians4PalestineNYC on IG

This is fine.

I'm very happy to share that the 2024 IPSA-NUS Methods School is now fully open for registration! Join us for 2 weeks in Singapore to learn the latest social science research methods of your choice. Course list here: fass.nus.edu.sg/methods-school… Pls help retweet to spread the word!

Now that I have some time, it may be good to address why this is wrong. The SG system doesn't really train us to think about this critically, so I'm not surprised people are confused. I hope that race scholars like Laavanya Kathiravelu will also chime in, but here goes. 1/n

Why we need to teach anti-racism, not just racial harmony.

What in the flying f? I was watching this cute CNA documentary on parents going to school with their children, and then I heard this (which was being taught in a sec school social studies class):

straitstimes.com/singapore/nice… glad we’re having more discussions about guardianship and who decides what should happen in public spaces in Singapore. I had my little quip too.

Wonderful Romit Chowdhury is going to speak on his recent book 'City of Men' in the 2024 TSU Seminar Series on 15 February. The event is online. Please register to attend!

Has anyone ever had a journal editor reverse their decision?

the Australian government sponsoring railway signage in Colombo: ‘The train will surely get you home. Getting to Australia by boat will surely get you caught.’ In Sinhala/Tamil only in an otherwise trilingual sign.

It’s finally happened to me: reviewer 3 suggested I cite my own research more!