Asian Diasporas

Asian migrants are inextricably linked to contemporary debates concerning the nation-state, neoliberalism, globalization, and transnationalism. This volume brings together these streams of inquiry and proposes a synthetic approach to examine various processes of migration and community formation on a global scale. The essays included in "Asian Diasporas" look at the worldwide dispersal of Asian populations through the lens of diaspora. They illustrate the underlying structures of inequality that create diasporic communities - the cultural barriers that impede belonging to the place they inhabit and the place they call "homeland," the unequal processes that embody globalization, and the social inequalities in host and origin country alike. Five major themes connect and cut across the collection: the recognition of inter-Asian strife; the persistence of the nation state; the salience of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; the forces of labor, colonialism, and globalization; and the centrality of culture.

ISBN 0804752443   Pages 328 ISBN13 9780804752442 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Stanford University Press   Weight (grammes) 435 Imprint Stanford University Press   Published in Palo Alto Format Paperback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 15 Feb 2008   Width (mm) 153 Library of Congress 2007026785   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 304.8095   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

		Introduction: Asian Diasporas - New Conceptions, New Frameworks by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas and Lok C. D. Siu		1
1		Latin America in Asia-Pacific Perspective by Evelyn Hu-DeHart		29
2		Filipino Sea Men: Identity and Masculinity in a Global Labor Niche by Steven C. McKay		63
3		"My Mother Fell in Love with My-Xuan First": Arranging "Traditional" Marriages Across the Diaspora by Hung Cam Thai		85
4		The Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Nationalism, Engendering Diaspora by Lok C. D. Siu		105
5		Ritual in Diaspora: Pedagogy and Practice Among Hindus and Muslims in Trinidad by Aisha Khan		141
6		"Our Flavour Is Greater" by Sharmila Sen		161
7		Asian Bodies Out of Control: Examining the Adopted Korean Existence by Tobias Hubinette		177
8		Diasporic Politics and the Globalizing of America: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and the 1919 Philadelphia Korean Congress by Richard S. Kim		201
9		When Minorities Migrate: The Racialization of the Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan by Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda		225
10		Legal Servitude and Free Illegality: Migrant "Guest" Workers in Taiwan by Pei-Chia Lan		253
11		Asian Diasporas, and Yet ... by David Palumbo-Liu		279
12		Beyond "Asian Diasporas" by Ien Ang		285
		List of Contributors		291
		Index		295

"Asian Diasporas skillfully integrates diverse perspectives from Asian Studies and Asian American Studies into a coherent theme to illuminate sensible understandings of how people of diverse Asian origins experience imagine, and interpret diasporas across geographical and social spaces in the globalized world." - Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles"

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