This publication brings together the work of several writers in documenting and understanding the consequences of state-formation on ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore, thirty years after the two nations went their separate paths.

Lian Kwen Fee, Ph.D. (1986) in Sociology, Victoria University of Wellington, is Associate Professor and chairs the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. His research and publication interests are in race and ethnicity, nation-state, migration, and citizenship.