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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines the worldwide dispersal of Asian populations and links these seemingly disparate movements through the category of Asian diasporas.
Trade Review"The essays reflect a high level of professional skill... the writing is clear and unpretentious, and the scholarship is solid.... These are, simply, very bright and professional scholars doing excellent scholarly work."—Paul Spickard, Journal of American Ethnic History
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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
"Rhacel Parrenas and Lok Siu have created an anthology that bridges diaspora, Asian and Asian American Studies. This is a difficult task, given the range of topics and tensions possible, yet this anthology has engaged with the key debates in the field and enhanced the conversation in extremely fruitful ways.
Asian Diasporas is required reading for many disciplines and fields interested in theorizing subjectivities formed out of migration and dispersions."—Inderpal Grewal, University of California, Irvine
"Illustrating seemingly porous global borders,
Asian Diasporas is a timely collection of rich, well-researched chapters on the lives and experiences of people originating from Asia..."—
Journal of International Migration and IntegrationTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Asian Diasporas: New Conceptions, New Formations Rhacel Parre'as and Lok C. D. Siu Chapter 1: Latin America in Asia-Pacific Perspective Evelyn Hu-Dehart Chapter 2: Filipino Sea Men: Identity and Masculinity in a Global Labor Niche Steve McKay Chapter 3: "My Mother Fell in Love with My-Xu'n First": Arranging "Traditional" Marriages across the Diaspora Hung Thai Chapter 4: Queen of the Chinese Colony: Gender, Nation, and Belonging in Diaspora Lok C. D. Siu Chapter 5: Ritual in Diaspora: Pedagogy and Practice among Hindus and Muslims in Trinidad Aisha Khan Chapter 6: "Our Flavour Is Greater" Sharmila Sen Chapter 7: Asian Bodies Out of Control: Examining the Adopted Korean Existence Tobias Hubinette Chapter 8: Diasporic Politics and the Globalizing of America: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and the 1919 Philadelphia Korean Congress Richard Kim Chapter 9: When Minorities Migrate: The Racialization of the Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan Takeyuki Tsuda Chapter 10: Legal Servitude and Free Illegality: Migrant "Guest" Workers in Taiwan Pei Chia Lan Commentaries Chapter 11: Asian Diasporas, and Yet ... David Palumbo-Liu Chapter 12: Beyond "Asian Diasporas" Ien Ang List of Contributors Index
