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The Asia Pacific region is geographically vast, ethnically diverse, and made up of a large number of states with widely differing histories, diversities, and political regimes. This region contains more than two-thirds of the world’s population, and this population has been classified and counted in many different ways, to different ends, over the past decades. Mixedness has meant many things over the years in these two areas of the world, and remains a key issue which is both acknowledged and ignored in different contexts. Overlapping with issues of religion, language, indigeneity, community, and migration, what it means to be ‘mixed’ in itself varies from country to country, with interesting implications for historical and contemporary measurement.
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Rocha, Z.L., Aspinall, P.J. (2020). Introduction: The Asia Pacific Region. In: Rocha, Z.L., Aspinall, P.J. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22874-3_30
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