{"id":62690,"date":"2022-01-05T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62690"},"modified":"2022-01-05T17:20:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:20:52","slug":"sarawaks-mixed-race-children-struggle-over-native-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62690","title":{"rendered":"Sarawak\u2019s mixed-race children struggle over \u2018native\u2019 identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/category\/nation\/2022\/01\/05\/sarawaks-mixed-race-children-struggle-over-native-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Sarawak\u2019s mixed-race children struggle over \u2018native\u2019 identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Malaysia Today<\/a><br \/>\nKuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br \/>\n2022-01-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muckrack.com\/wong-pek-mei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wong Pek Mei<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/category\/nation\/2022\/01\/05\/sarawaks-mixed-race-children-struggle-over-native-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 95%; display: block; border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3media.freemalaysiatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Alena-Murang.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"width: 95%; font-size: x-small; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alenamurang.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alena Murang<\/a> and her father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ose-murang-420033b2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ose<\/a> and her mother <a href=\"https:\/\/unimas-my.academia.edu\/ValerieMashman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valerie Mashman<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petaling_Jaya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PETALING JAYA<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alenamurang.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alena Murang<\/a>, who has mixed parentage, discovered only as an adult that she was not legally \u201cnative\u201d in her homeland, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarawak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarawak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alena, 32, a musician, songwriter and visual artist, said she and many others were oblivious to the issue. Her birth certificate said she was a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelabit_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelabit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ose-murang-420033b2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ose Murang<\/a>, 67, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dayak_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dayak<\/a> Kelabit community leader and her mother is European.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly when I was an adult did I come to understand that in Sarawak, mixed children like myself are not legally native&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/category\/nation\/2022\/01\/05\/sarawaks-mixed-race-children-struggle-over-native-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alena Murang, who has mixed parentage, discovered only as an adult that she was not legally \u201cnative\u201d in her homeland, Sarawak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,125,1467,8,4405],"tags":[32690,32693,3760,1392,32691,32692,32694,32689],"class_list":["post-62690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-law","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-alena-murang","tag-free-malaysia-today","tag-malaysia","tag-music","tag-ose-murang","tag-petaling-jaya","tag-sarawak","tag-valerie-mashman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62690","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=62690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62704,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62690\/revisions\/62704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}