{"id":11130,"date":"2010-12-31T03:55:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T03:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11130"},"modified":"2010-12-31T04:03:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T04:03:08","slug":"double-barrelled-race-system-to-start-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11130","title":{"rendered":"Double-barrelled race system to start on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/Singapore\/EDC101231-0000106\/Double-barrelled-race-system-to-start-on-Saturday\" target=\"_blank\">Double-barrelled race system to start on Saturday<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Today Online<br \/>\n<\/a>2010-12-31<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:zul@mediacorp.com.sg\" target=\"_blank\">Zul Othman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; From Saturday, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will implement the registration of dual heritage options for children with parents of different races. This means these children will be able to share dual heritages on their identity cards (ICs), by way of \u201cdouble-barrelled\u201d races.<\/p>\n<p>This change was first announced in Parliament in January; giving mixed marriage couples\u2014a Caucasian-Chinese, for example\u2014the flexibility to decide how their children&#8217;s race should be recorded instead of categorising them as Chinese, Caucasian, or Eurasian.<\/p>\n<p>The ICA says that there will not be any advantages in terms of policy considerations for those who register either a double-barrelled or singular race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;As for the HDB&#8217;s [Housing and Development Board&#8217;s] Ethnic Integration Policy\u2014which puts a cap on the number of families of each race in a HDB block to ensure a balanced mix of races\u2014it has previously said that it may be more flexible towards mixed-race couples&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/Singapore\/EDC101231-0000106\/Double-barrelled-race-system-to-start-on-Saturday\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double-barrelled race system to start on Saturday Today Online 2010-12-31 Zul Othman SINGAPORE &#8211; From Saturday, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will implement the registration of dual heritage options for children with parents of different races. This means these children will be able to share dual heritages on their identity cards (ICs), by way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,6,26],"tags":[3519,4927,4926],"class_list":["post-11130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-new-media","category-politics","tag-singapore","tag-today-online","tag-zul-othman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}