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Diaspora, National Identity, and Reciprocal Prosperity

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Identity, Policy, and Prosperity

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This chapter establishes a conceptual and analytical framework to explore the nexus among policy, nationality, and development. It focuses on the formation of a diaspora’s national identity from ethnicization and de-ethnicization to build a third type of stabilized national identity in relation to host society and the dynamic interplay between ethnonationalism and regional development. Regardless of its political system, a host country’s options for dealing with ethnic groups are limited—broadly speaking, either assimilation or autonomy—although many derivations and forms of political rhetoric exist between those two options. China’s model of multiculturalism to date can be understood as a centralized government-dominated, non-participatory, top-down (and thus authoritarian) approach to dealing with the multinational composition (multiculturality) of its people. Multicultural approach for its own sake may not be the PRC’s fundamental political vision, but multiculturalism with Chinese characteristics in this region until today has achieved a relative success and will remain to be considered a best policy option for this region’s further prosperity at the lowest cost.

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Park, J.B. (2018). Diaspora, National Identity, and Reciprocal Prosperity. In: Identity, Policy, and Prosperity. China in Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4849-4_2

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