Double-barrelled race system to start on SaturdayPosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, New Media, Politics/Public Policy on 2010-12-31 03:55Z by Steven |
Double-barrelled race system to start on Saturday
Today Online
2010-12-31
SINGAPORE – 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 “double-barrelled” races.
This change was first announced in Parliament in January; giving mixed marriage couples—a Caucasian-Chinese, for example—the flexibility to decide how their children’s race should be recorded instead of categorising them as Chinese, Caucasian, or Eurasian.
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…
…As for the HDB’s [Housing and Development Board’s] Ethnic Integration Policy—which puts a cap on the number of families of each race in a HDB block to ensure a balanced mix of races—it has previously said that it may be more flexible towards mixed-race couples…
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