{"product_id":"asian-diasporas-9780804752442","title":"Asian Diasporas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays examines the worldwide dispersal of Asian populations and links these seemingly disparate movements through the category of Asian diasporas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAsian Diasporas\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003eAsian Diasporas\u003c\/i\u003e is required reading for many disciplines and fields interested in theorizing subjectivities formed out of migration and dispersions.\"—Inderpal Grewal, University of California, Irvine\u003cbr\u003e\"Illustrating seemingly porous global borders, \u003ci\u003eAsian Diasporas\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely collection of rich, well-researched chapters on the lives and experiences of people originating from Asia...\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of International Migration and Integration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgments  Introduction\tAsian 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","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405563306327,"sku":"9780804752442","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804752442.jpg?v=1730492845","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/asian-diasporas-9780804752442","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}