I have had the fortune of doing research with Orang Asli (2001-2003) as well as Acehnese and Burmese refugees (2004 – present) in Peninsular Malaysia. Some of it is written up in my Masters thesis (2004) and in the following academic publications.
Orang Asli
Nah, A.M. (2006) Negotiating Indigenous Race/Place in Postcolonial Peninsular Malaysia, Geografiska Annaler B, 88 (3): 285-297.
Nah, A.M. (2006) Names as Sites of Identity Construction, Negotiation, and Resistance: Signifying Orang Asli in Postcolonial Malaysia, in Kwen Fee, Lian (ed) Race, Ethnicity and the State in Singapore and Malaysia, Asian Social Sciences Series, Brill: Leiden, pp.33-60.
Nah, A.M. (2004) Negotiating Orang Asli Identity in Postcolonial Malaysia, M.Soc.Sci. Thesis, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Bunnell, T. and Nah, A. (2004) Counter-global Cases for Place: Contesting Displacement in Globalizing Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan Area, Urban Studies, 41 (12): 2447-2468.
Nah, A.M. (2003) Negotiating Indigenous Identity in Postcolonial Malaysia: Beyond Being ‘Not quite/ not Malay’, Social Identities, 9 (4): 511-534.
Refugees/ Migrants
Nah, A.M. (2007) Struggling with (Il)legality: The Indeterminate Functioning of Malaysia’s Borders for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Stateless Persons, in Prem Kumar and Carl Grundy-Warr (eds.) Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge, University of Minnesota Press: Minnesota, pp. 35-64.
Nah, A.M. and Bunnell, T. (2005) Ripples of Hope: Acehnese Refugees in Post-Tsunami Malaysia, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 26 (2): 249-256.
