Asian diasporas : new formations, new conceptions / edited by Rhacel S. Parreñas and Lok C.D. Siu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar.

Siu, Lok C. D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian diaspora.

Asians--Foreign countries.

Asians.

Foreign countries.

Physical Description:

viii, 305 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Asian diasporas : new conceptions, new frameworks / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Lok C.D. Siu

Latin America in Asia-Pacific perspective / Evelyn Hu-DeHart

Filipino sea men : identity and masculinity in a global labor niche / Steven C. McKay

"My mother fell in love with Mỹ-Xuân first" : arranging "traditional" marriages across the diaspora / Hung Cam Thai

The queen of the Chinese colony : contesting nationalism, engendering diaspora / Lok C.D. Siu

Ritual in diaspora : pedagogy and practice among Hindus and Muslims in Trinidad / Aisha Khan

"Our flavour is greater" / Sharmila Sen

Asian bodies out of control : examining the adopted Korean existence / Tobias Hübinette

Diasporic politics and the globalizing of America : Korean immigrant nationalism and the 1919 Philadelphia Korean Congress / Richard S. Kim

When minorities migrate : the racialization of the Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda

Legal servitude and free illegality : migrant "guest" workers in Taiwan / Pei-Chia Lan

Asian diasporas, and yet ... / David Palumbo-Liu

Beyond "Asian diasporas" / Ien Ang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804752435

0804752435

9780804752442

0804752443

OCLC:

152559989