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A Comparative Study Of Overseas Indians And Overseas Chinese - Singapore Case Analysis

Posted on:2011-08-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z C ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360308481011Subject:World History
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Chinese Diaspora and Indian Diaspora population as the world's two large immigrant groups in the history of global migration is a major feat. Meanwhile, the two immigrant groups they were with China, India and China have closely linked to different places, even greater similarity, and therefore comparable. In this thesis, the overseas Indians and overseas Chinese immigrants in Singapore's history and the basic situation of status quo based on the analysis of the two reasons for immigration, economic strength, education, religion, mate model, both competitive and India country of immigrants (aliens) to compare aspects of policy research, selected the English original and the Indian Foreign Ministry official Web site reports on the raw data, but also made reference to previous research results.The structure of this article reads as follows: The first chapter is an introduction, explain topics reason, this involves a few basic concepts, current research status and research methods and research in this thesis, purpose and significance; the second chapter of Indians Diaspora and Chinese Diaspora basic overview, Singapore profiles, introduces two immigrant groups in Southeast Asia and the distribution of Singapore and the status quo; third chapter is the focus of this article, mainly Indians and Chinese in Singapore between the comparative study, involving economic strength, employment and social status, education, religious communities, mate choice, among others. The contents of Chapter IV of Indians Diaspora and Chinese Diaspora on the impact of home countries. Chapter Chinese and Indian governments on their respective overseas immigration policy as a simple comparison.Chinese Diaspora "development and construction in Singapore has made its indelible contribution to the Chibese Diaspora" And Indians Diaspora have "Singapore builders" in the world. By comparison, Singapore's two large immigrant groups, we found that as the first and third largest ethnic group in Singapore, Chinese and Indian immigrants in many areas such as history, the struggles, and their respective home countries have greater upper contact similarity; of course, from different religious, ethnic background of immigrants to Singapore, these two groups there are large differences in overall Chinese economic strength, social status better than the Indians, the religious communities, marriage to some free; the micro level, educational and cultural level of the Indians than the Chinese; two different ethnic groups over time in different historical periods have larger changes, such as the British colonial period, Indian economy strength is superior to Chinese, Indian usurers typical Qi Homo sapiens. Singapore's overseas Indians and overseas Chinese there is no conflict on the surface, but in China and India vied against the background of a potential competitor for the relationship in reality. These two population groups in Singapore, India, three countries on long-term development of China will have a significant impact.In short, Indians and Chinese, as Singapore's development and construction of two major groups, with strong comparability, this article is based on this point, the rise of overseas Indians in the academic and overseas Chinese for a comparative study of the wave of the moment select Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore compared to the case.
Keywords/Search Tags:Indians Diaspora, Chinese Diaspora, Singapore, comparative study
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