The SIJORI cross-border region : transnational politics, economics, and culture /

The SIJORI cross-border region : transnational politics, economics, and culture / edited by Francis E. Hutchinson & Terence Chong.

Twenty-five years ago, the governments of Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia agreed to jointly promote the city-state, the state of Johor in Malaysia, and the Riau Islands in Indonesia. Facilitated by common cultural references, a more distant shared history, and complementary attributes, interactio...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Chong, Terence (Editor), Hutchinson, Francis E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2016.
Subjects:
Growth triangles > Southeast Asia.
Growth triangles
International economic integration
International economic relations
Southeast Asia > Economic integration.
Riau (Indonesia : Province) > Foreign economic relations > Malaysia > Johor.
Riau (Indonesia : Province) > Foreign economic relations > Singapore.
Johor (Malaysia) > Foreign economic relations > Indonesia > Riau (Province)
Johor (Malaysia) > Foreign economic relations > Singapore.
Singapore > Foreign economic relations > Indonesia > Riau (Province)
Singapore > Foreign economic relations > Malaysia > Johor.
Indonesia > Riau (Province)
Malaysia > Johor
Singapore
Southeast Asia
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. The SIJORI cross-border region : more than a triangle / Francis E. Hutchinson & Terence Chong
  • section I. Understanding the Whole
  • 2. The population of the SIJORI cross-border region / Aris Ananta
  • 3. The SIJORI cross-border region as an economic entity in 1990 and 2012, and perspectives for 2030 / Toh Mun Heng and Jiang Bo
  • section II. Policy and politics
  • 4. The social construction of comparative advantage and the SIJORI growth triangle / Benjamin Loh
  • 5. The political economy of closer relations : a perspective from Singapore / Manu Bhaskaran
  • 6. A periphery serving three cores : balancing local, national, and cross-border interests in the Riau Islands / Mulya Amri
  • 7. Political contestation in Iskandar Malaysia : views on economic integration during Malaysia's 13th general election / Khor Yu Leng
  • 8. Johor survey : interethnic dissonance / Terence Chong
  • section III. Cross-border social and cultural communities
  • 9. The significance of Riau in SIJORI / Vivienne Wee
  • 10. Singaporeans living in Johor and Batam : next-door transnationalism living and border anxiety / Su-Ann Oh and Reema B. Jagtiani
  • 11. Singapore Malay family businesses : negotiating Malaysian and Singapore citizenship and national identities / Rizwana Abdul Azeez
  • 12. Imaginary frontiers and deferred masculinity : Singapore working-class men in Batam / Terence Chong
  • section IV. Formal and informal economies
  • 13. The airport and the territory : transnational flows in the Singapore-Johor-Riau cross-border region / Anna Gasco
  • 14. Revisiting industrial dynamics in the SIJORI cross-border region : the electronics industry twenty years on / Leo van Grunsven and Francis E. Hutchinson
  • 15. Development in Johor and Singapore's water access : challenges and opportunities / J. Jackson Ewing and Pau Khan Khup Hangzo
  • 16. The role of ethnic Chinese business networks in the regionalization strategy of Singaporean fish farming firms / Guanie Lim
  • 17. Pirates and law enforcement agencies : complex relations across the Malacca Straits / Eric FreĢcon
  • Conclusion
  • 18. The SIJORI cross-border region : the whole and sum of its parts / Francis E. Hutchinson.

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