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City, civil society and inority : the case of the Aeta and the City of Tayabas and Lucena, Quezon Philippines -- Formation among the Waray squatters of Tacloban City, Leyte Philippines -- The contemporary rural-urban linkage : A case of the Philippines -- Urbanization and indigenous poeple : development among the Orang Asli, Malaysia -- The development of Miri City and the ethnicity of minority groups in Northern Sarawak -- The location of ethnicity and spatial segregation in metropolitan area, Malaysia -- SPheres of control in postcolonial plural societies : the Malaysian experience -- Peranakanization, Indonesianization, and cultural citizenship among the ethnic Chinese in an Indonesian Town : the case of Makassar -- The Raglai social management and administrative system in the Bac Ai district, Ninh Thuan Province, Vietnam -- The suitability of the Khmer traditional sociopolitical institutions in their ethnicity processes in Mekong Delta.