Migrants, Minorities, and Populism in Southeast Asia

Populists in Southeast Asia generally refrain from invoking anti-migrant and anti-minority sentiments as part of their mobilizational strategies. This differentiates them from “exclusionary” populists in Europe, even though many Southeast Asian countries are diverse societies with long histories of migration and ethnic chauvinism. Because the categories of peoplehood that were set alongside the onset of mass politics at independence remain salient today, they constrain contemporary Asian populists’ rhetorical and mobilizational strategies—even in Southeast Asia’s diverse societies. The Southeast Asian experience reveals the importance of historical sequence in nationalist mobilization and mass incorporation in shaping popular identity, citizenship, and membership in contemporary populism.

视角：东南亚的移民、少数群体以及民粹主义

关键词：民粹主义, 迁移, 族群, 认同，时序，东南亚。

东南亚的民粹主义者通常会克制自己，不把挑动反移民以及反少数群体情绪作为他们的动员策略的一部分。这将他们与欧洲“排斥主义”的民粹主义者区分开来，尽管很多东南亚国家是有着漫长的移民和族群沙文主义历史的多元社会。因为获得独立时，伴随大众政治起步所设置的人民性的类别至今还保持显著的地位，所以即便在东南亚多元化的社会中它们也限制着当代亚洲的民粹主义者的修辞和动员策略。东南亚经验揭示出在民族主义动员和大众政治整合过程中历史时序对于塑造大众认同、公民身份以及在当代民粹主义中的成员身份的重要性。

Translated from English by Li Guo