“…Encompassing a vast range of communities, ethnicities, languages, political systems, and colonial histories, Asia is home to a plethora of mixed racial and ethnic identities. Importantly, mixing can have many meanings in the region, particularly given the continued salience of historical mixed identities and communities based around mixedness, such as the Anglo-Indians in India, the Indos in Indonesia, the Peranakans in Southeast Asia and the Eurasians in Malaysia and Singapore (Andrews, 2017;Hewett, 2017Hewett, , 2018Rocha, 2018;Rocha & Fozdar, 2017a;Tan, 1993;Yeoh et al, 2019). The more straightforward theoretical and social understanding of mixed race/ethnicity as the direct outcome of mixes between two separate groups certainly applies in Asia, particularly as contemporary migration flows intensify, group boundaries overlap, and population diversity increases.…”