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[정치] Social Movements and the State (Singapore)
싱가포르 국외연구자료 연구보고서 - Wiley Online Library 발간일 : 2022-09-27 등록일 : 2023-05-07 원문링크
The tiny city-state of Singapore, occupying an island of just 274 square miles at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and with the Riau Islands of Indonesia clearly visible to the south on a clear day, is something of an anomaly in Southeast Asia. From its foundation as a colonial outpost of the British East India Company, a date usually traced to the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819, and its subsequent incorporation into the British Empire as a Crown Colony, it rapidly flourished as a major port city for trade in the region, as a transit point for migrant labor from China and India coming to work in the plantations, mines, and commercial establishments of British Malaya, and as an administrative and military center for British rule in the peninsula. This particular history has deeply marked its current culture and ethnic makeup: still a city very much oriented to trade and acting as a communications hub for Southeast Asia, it is also highly diverse in its ethnic composition, with a large Chinese majority (approximately 75% of the population), a substantial Malay community, a significant Indian one (about 8% of the population), and a large number of smaller minorities of Indonesian, Filipino, Arab, European, Sri Lankan, and other South Asian origins together with substantial but transitory populations of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, European, Australian, and North American business people, diplomats, students, and tourists. As the colonial era drew to a close, Singapore became first a self-governing colony, then joined the new state of Malaysia in 1963 and in 1965 as a result of ethnic and political tensions, left Malaysia to become the new independent state of the Republic of Singapore.
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