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Seeing Ethnicity Otherwise: From History, Classification and Terminology to Identities, Health and Mixedness in the Work of Peter J. Aspinall

A special issue of Genealogy (ISSN 2313-5778).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 3977

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Zarine L. Rocha

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1. Department of Sociology, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
2. Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
Interests: mixed ethnic identities; ethnicity and race; belonging; applied sociology
Dr. Chamion Caballero

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The Mixed Museum, London EC1N 8UN, UK
Interests: race and ethnicity; particularly mixed race identities and histories; qualitative research
Prof. Dr. Brenda Saw Ai Yeoh

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Guest Editor
Geography and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Singapore
Interests: postcolonial geographies; gender and migration; mixed marriage and identity

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This commemorative Special Issue is dedicated to the life and work of Peter J. Aspinall, a prolific and innovative social scientist, and a generous and supportive colleague and friend. Over the years, Peter worked across many fields, from urban and regional analysis and health services research, to public health, ethnicity terminology and classifications, and mixed ethnic identities, inspiring many with his breadth and depth of knowledge and insight. His work was both theoretical and practical, drawing out key sociological and policy issues and seeking to make real change, providing that often elusive link between theorization and grounded work.

Peter passed away in early 2023, and, as his colleagues, we are organizing this Special Issue as a way to honour Peter’s contributions across a range of disciplines, and his commitment to his editorial work at Genealogy. We invite contributions which explore any of the vast range of topics that Peter focused on, from scholars who have worked with Peter, and from those who have learned from his scholarship. These fields include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Mixedness and critical mixed race studies;
  • Ethnicity and census classifications;
  • Terminology and classification;
  • Histories of race and ethnicity;
  • New approaches to mixedness, race and ethnicity;
  • Public health classifications and resources;
  • Ethnicity, health and illness;
  • Social identities, equality and human rights;
  • Population studies, classification and terminology;
  • Language, concepts and changing identities.

Contributions to this Special Issue will build on these topics, drawing on Peter’s vast body of work and reflecting on its societal relevance and theoretical developments, including linkages which Peter was able to articulate so clearly, and which continue to inspire us today. This Special Issue is our tribute to the continuing influence and legacy of Peter’s writing, as well as to the broadness and depth of his scholarship.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews of Peter’s work are welcome, as well as more personal reflections on working with Peter over the years.

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 200–500 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editors or to the Genealogy editorial office ([email protected]). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of this Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Zarine L. Rocha
Dr. Chamion Caballero
Prof. Dr. Brenda Saw Ai Yeoh
Guest Editors

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Genealogy is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Keywords

  • Peter J. Aspinall
  • ethnicity
  • race
  • classification
  • health
  • identity
  • mixedness
  • terminology
  • census

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Research Collaboration: What It Means to Work with Someone
by Miri Song
Genealogy 2024, 8(1), 22; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8010022 - 24 Feb 2024
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I am very happy to contribute to this Special Issue on the works of Peter Aspinall [...] Full article
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Not Indian, Not African: Classifying the East African Asian Population in Aotearoa New Zealand
by Zarine L. Rocha and Robert Didham
Genealogy 2024, 8(4), 141; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8040141 - 13 Nov 2024
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This paper explores the challenges of measuring and classifying the East African Asian population in Aotearoa New Zealand. As a particularly diverse country, New Zealand has a significant and varied population of immigrants from South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, along with [...] Read more.
This paper explores the challenges of measuring and classifying the East African Asian population in Aotearoa New Zealand. As a particularly diverse country, New Zealand has a significant and varied population of immigrants from South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, along with immigrants of South Asian origin, from Fiji, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and East Africa. New Zealand’s system of ethnic classification relies on self-identification, with a broad definition of ethnicity encompassing heritage, ancestry, culture, language and feelings of belonging. However, the collection of this information at a granularity that enables detailed analysis is constrained for the South Asian population, regardless of origin or identification. People are typically presented with the choice of selecting “Indian” ethnicity as a tick box, or providing ethnicities under “Other” as write-in descriptors, which in turn are coded to a limited set of categories within the classification being used. This practice potentially conceals a diversity of ethnicities, which can only partially be hinted at by responses to questions relating to religions, languages and birthplaces, especially for second or third-generation descendants of migrants. Ethnic classification at the highest level, moreover, includes East African Indians as Asian, rather than African, reflecting diasporic heritage as a shorthand for ancestry and overlooking the relevance of layers of identity associated with the double diaspora. Drawing on Peter J. Aspinall’s work on collective terminology in ethnic data collection and categorizing the “Asian” ethnic group in the UK, this paper looks at the overlaps and disconnects between heritage, ethnicity and national belonging in classifying less clearcut identities. We explore the strengths and limitations of New Zealand’s self-identification approach to ethnic identity, and query what exactly is being asked of groups on the margins: when self-identification does not match external perception, are we looking for geographic, cultural, or genetic origins? A focus on the East African Asian population in Aotearoa highlights the complexity of identity for diasporic groups with distant ancestral links with India, as lived experience of cultural connection extends far beyond the bounds of ethnicity, language and even ancestry. Full article
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A ‘Usable Past’?: Irish Affiliation in CANZUS Settler States
by Patrick Broman
Genealogy 2024, 8(3), 79; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8030079 - 26 Jun 2024
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In a 2023 article in this journal, Esther and Michael Fitzpatrick wrote that “complicated are those diaspora people who yearn to claim ‘Irishness’ in their places as something distinct from colonial settlers”. An Irish identity seems to offer something unique in these contexts, [...] Read more.
In a 2023 article in this journal, Esther and Michael Fitzpatrick wrote that “complicated are those diaspora people who yearn to claim ‘Irishness’ in their places as something distinct from colonial settlers”. An Irish identity seems to offer something unique in these contexts, having been embraced by Joe Biden, for example, as a keystone of his political identity. In this article, I utilise census data from the four primary Anglo-settler polities of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States to demonstrate the comparatively greater extent that Irish ethnic antecedents are remembered by local-born Whites. While acknowledging that drivers of ethnic affiliation are personal and multifaceted, and not directly discernible from answers on a questionnaire, I consider the nature of Irishness as a political identity in settler-colonial contexts. Full article
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