Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in PanamaStanford University Press, 28 oct. 2005 - 270 pagini While the history of Asian migration to Latin America is well documented, we know little about the contemporary experience of diasporic Asians in this part of the world. Memories of a Future Home offers an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in Panama construct a home and create a sense of belonging as they inhabit the interstices of several cultural-national formations—Panama, their nation of residence; China/Taiwan, their ethnic homeland; and the United States, the colonial force. Juxtaposing the concepts of diaspora and citizenship, this book offers an innovative framework to help us understand how diasporic subjects engage the politics of cultural and political belonging in a transnational context. It does so by examining the interaction between continually shifting geopolitical dynamics, as well as the maneuvers undertaken by diasporic people to negotiate and transform those conditions. In essence, this book explores the contingent citizenship experienced by diasporic Chinese and their efforts to imagine and construct "home" in diaspora. |
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... nese . They have turned ' Panamanian . ' They look down at us because we are new here , because we don't know the ... nese in Panama . It is worth emphasizing here that the category of “ Chi- nese " is culturally mediated , context ...
... nese . They have turned ' Panamanian . ' They look down at us because we are new here , because we don't know the ... nese in Panama . It is worth emphasizing here that the category of “ Chi- nese " is culturally mediated , context ...
Pagina 141
... nese in Panama are heterogeneous and can be divided in numerous ways . My decision to highlight this distinction therefore reflects less on objec- tive categories than on my consistent encounter with this thematic divi- sion as ...
... nese in Panama are heterogeneous and can be divided in numerous ways . My decision to highlight this distinction therefore reflects less on objec- tive categories than on my consistent encounter with this thematic divi- sion as ...
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... nese , I found that before the 1940s , women who immigrated to Panama as brides often returned to China after their children were born , and their Panamanian identification cards and travel documents were sometimes then reused by ...
... nese , I found that before the 1940s , women who immigrated to Panama as brides often returned to China after their children were born , and their Panamanian identification cards and travel documents were sometimes then reused by ...
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Diasporic Citizenship I | 1 |
The Social History | 33 |
Contesting Nationalism | 54 |
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