Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions

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Stanford University Press, 30 nov. 2007 - 320 pagini

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.

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Latin America in AsiaPacific Perspective
29
Identity and Masculinity
63
Pedagogy and Practice Among
141
Our Flavour Is Greater
161
The Racialization
225
Asian Diasporas and Yet
279
Beyond Asian Diasporas
285
List of Contributors
291
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Pagina 23 - One of them replicates the time-honored portrayal of growing acculturation and parallel integration into the white middle-class; a second leads straight in the opposite direction to permanent poverty and assimilation into the underclass; still a third associates rapid economic advancement with deliberate preservation of the immigrant community's values and tight solidarity.
Pagina 124 - Diaspora In its simplest formulation, diaspora refers to the condition of a people who share a common "homeland," real or imagined, and who are dispersed throughout the world, either by force or by choice. Diaspora most commonly refers to "the doubled relationship or dual loyalty ... to two places — their connections to the space they currently occupy and their continuing involvement with 'back home'" (Lavie and Swedenburg 1996, 15).
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Pagina 23 - race' in this country is fired by conceptions of national belonging and homogeneity which not only blur the distinction between 'race' and nation, but rely on that very ambiguity for their effect.

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Rhacel S. Parreñas is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Servants of Globalization (Stanford, 2001) and Children of Global Migration (Stanford, 2005). Lok C. D. Siu is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of Memories of a Future Home (Stanford, 2005).

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