This links to the continued use of language as an ethnic marker, but also one which may be learned, allowing a certain degree of choice and shifting affiliations amongst putative members of a diaspora.
This book was published as a special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.
Claire Sutherland is a lecturer in Southeast Asian Politics, School of Government and International Relations, Durham University.
Elena Barabantseva is a Research Fellow/Lecturer in Chinese Politics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester.