Dr Lian Kwen Fee
kwenfee.lian@ubd.edu.bn
Professor, Institute of Asian Studies
Lian Kwen Fee is Professor of Sociology. He has previously held positions in Victoria University of Wellington and at the National University of Singapore where he was Head of Sociology. His research background is in political and historical sociology. He is currently working on two book projects, ‘International Migration in the Middle East and Asia: Politics of Exclusion’ and ‘Landscapes of Brunei’.
EDUCATION
Race and State
Ethnic Identity and Citizenship
Multiculturalism
Migration
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Scopus Publications
- The Political Construction of Race and Ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore: Career of a Concept
Lian Kwen Fee
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 23648252, eISSN: 23648260, Pages: 255-270, Published: 2021
Springer Singapore - Foreword
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 23648252, eISSN: 23648260, Pages: ix-x, Published: 2021 - Foreword
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 23648252, eISSN: 23648260, Pages: v-vi, Published: 2020 - Introduction: Migrants in the middle east and asia
Kwen Fee Lian, Naomi Hosoda, and Masako Ishii
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 23648252, eISSN: 23648260, Pages: 1-11, Published: 2019
Springer Singapore - Preface and acknowledgements
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 23648252, eISSN: 23648260, Published: 2019 - International migration and the politics of multiculturalism in Japan, South korea and Singapore
Kwen Fee Lian
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 23648252, eISSN: 23648260, Pages: 157-175, Published: 2019
Springer Singapore - Tamil migrants in colonial Malaya 1930s–1950s
Kwen Fee Lian and Ganapathy Narayanan
South Asian Diaspora, ISSN: 19438192, eISSN: 19438184, Pages: 1-14, Published: 2 January 2018
Informa UK Limited - Race, reintegration, and social capital in Singapore
Ganapathy Narayanan and Lian Kwen Fee
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, ISSN: 01924036, eISSN: 21576475, Pages: 1-23, Published: 2 January 2016
Informa UK Limited - Preface
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 23648252, eISSN: 23648260, Published: 2016 - Multiculturalism in singapore: Concept and practice
Kwen Fee Lian
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 23648252, eISSN: 23648260, Pages: 11-29, Published: 2016
Springer Singapore - Introduction
Kwen Fee Lian
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 23648252, eISSN: 23648260, Pages: 1-10, Published: 2016
Springer Singapore - The politics of racialization and malay identity
Kwen Fee Lian and Narayanan Ganapathy
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 23648252, eISSN: 23648260, Pages: 99-112, Published: 2016
Springer Singapore - Making sense of inter and intraregional mobility in southeast asia
Kwen Fee Lian, Md. Mizanur Rahman, and Yabit bin Alas
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 23648252, eISSN: 23648260, Pages: 1-12, Published: 2016
Springer Singapore - From workers to entrepreneurs: Development of bangladeshi migrant businesses in the Republic of Korea
Lian Kwen Fee and Md Mizanur Rahman
International Migration, ISSN: 00207985, eISSN: 14682435, Pages: 122-139, Published: April 2014 - Recruiting migrant labour in Asia: Interplay between institutions and networks
Asian Migration Policy: South, Southeast and East Asia, Pages: 251-270, Published: 2012 - Towards a Sociology of Migrant Remittances in Asia: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Md Mizanur Rahman and Lian Kwen Fee
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, ISSN: 1369183X, eISSN: 14699451, Pages: 689-706, Published: April 2012
Informa UK Limited - The Development of Migrant Entrepreneurship in Japan: Case of Bangladeshis
Md Mizanur Rahman and Kwen Fee Lian
Journal of International Migration and Integration, ISSN: 14883473, Pages: 253-274, Published: August 2011
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Race, class and politics in peninsular Malaysia: The general election of 2008
Lian Kwen Fee and Jayanath Appudurai
Asian Studies Review, ISSN: 10357823, eISSN: 14678403, Pages: 63-82, Published: March 2011
Informa UK Limited - Is there a social policy in Singapore?
Lian Kwen Fee
Social Sciences in Asia, ISSN: 15672794, Pages: 21-43, Published: 2008 - Social policy issues in a post-industrial society
T. C. Kiong and Lian Kwen Fee
Social Sciences in Asia, ISSN: 15672794, Pages: 1-19, Published: 2008 - International labour recruitment: Channelling bangladeshi labour to east and South-East Asia
Lian Kwen Fee and Mizanur Rahman
Asia-Pacific Population Journal, ISSN: 0259238X, eISSN: 15644278, Pages: 85-107, Published: April 2006
United Nations Publications - Bangladeshi migrant workers in singapore: The view from inside
Mizanur Rahman and Lian Kwen Fee
Asia-Pacific Population Journal, ISSN: 0259238X, eISSN: 15644278, Pages: 63-88, Published: April 2005
United Nations Publications - Chinese enterprise in colonial Malaya: The case of Eu Tong Sen
Lian Kwen Fee and Koh Keng We
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, ISSN: 00224634, eISSN: 14740680, Pages: 415-432, Published: 2004
Cambridge University Press (CUP) - The political and economic marginalisation of Tamils in Malaysia
Lian Kwen Fee
Asian Studies Review, ISSN: 10357823, eISSN: 14678403, Pages: 309-329, Published: September 2002
Informa UK Limited - In search of a history of singapore?
Lian Kwen Fee
Asian Journal of Social Science, ISSN: 15684849, eISSN: 15685314, Pages: 93-106, Published: 1 January 1992
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Tamil Migrants in colonial Malaya 1930s – 1950s’ (forthcoming in Journal of South Asian Diaspora)
(co-authored) ‘Race, reintegration and social capital in Singapore’, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (2016)
(contributing editor) (2016) ‘International Migration in Southeast Asia: Continuities and Discontinuities’, Singapore: IAS and Springer.
(contributing editor) (2016) ‘Multiculturalism, Migration, and the Politics of Identity in Singapore’, Singapore: IAS and Springer.
(co-author) (1995) ‘The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore’, London: Routledge.