{"product_id":"memories-of-a-future-home-9780804758468","title":"Memories of a Future Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in Panama construct notions of home and create a sense of belonging as they inhabit the interstices of several cultural-national formations—Panama, China\/Taiwan, and the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At the heart of Lok Siu's engaging, well-researched book about Chinese Panamanians is the question of what it means to be Chinese in a diaspora. Siu makes a major contribution to international migration and Chinese oversees studies by developing the theoretical concept of 'diasporic citizenship.' Rather than taking for granted a coherent, homogenized 'Chinese diaspora,' Siu demonstrates its complexities and disjunctures.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Chinese Oversees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lok Siu has written a fascinating story about the Chinese living in Panama, equally vulnerable to memories of home and the ruptures of nationalist politics. The notion of diasporic citizenship captures a kind of interstitial belonging shaped by cross-currents of culture and politics, most recently including ripples from emergent Asian powers.\" -- Aihwa Ong * author of \u003ci\u003eFlexible Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuddha is Hiding\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGlobal Assemblages\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eLok Sius groundbreaking ethnography, \u003ci\u003eMemories of a Future Home\u003c\/i\u003e, provides a fine analysis of the Chinese presence in Panama through a vivid series of case studies about social ruptures. This book raises questions of nation and belonging in diasporic spaces between remembered homelands and present identifications as well as among Panama, the United States, mainland China and Taiwan. Studies of citizenship, Latin America, and Asian Americans will not be the same after Sius work. What a wonderful read!\" -- Renato Rosaldo, Department of Anthropology * New York University *\u003cbr\u003e\"[The] theoretical framework of this ethnography, of diasporic citizenship and the fluidity of culture and identities (albeit firmly embedded in power relations), should represent a point of departure for a fuller and perhaps more inclusive discussion of the intersections of culture and politics in the hemisphere as a whole.\"\u003ci\u003eJournal of Latin American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMemories of a Future Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful ethnography, focusing specifically on the different groups of Chinese in Panama and their ongoing negotiations regarding identity, nationality, and home. Proposing that these must be contextualized both in terms of the complexities of Panamanian politics and the global status of the country of origin, Siu makes a highly original contribution that illuminates the dynamics of cultural citizenship among 'new' and 'old' Asian immigrant populations in the Americas, as a whole.\" -- Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, University of California\u003cbr\u003e\"Lok Siu's investigation of the Chinese in Panama is a unique entry in the ongoing investigation of the broader, globally significant processes of migration. This work illuminates some of the major conceptual debates in contemporary scholarship. The author's theoretically informed thick description makes this manuscript sing.\" -- Ien Ang * University of Western Sydney *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  \t\tAcknowledgments\tix  \t\tPreface\txiii  \t\tIntroduction: Diasporic Citizenship\t1  \t1.\t\tProhibited Race\/Ideal Citizens: The Social History and Background   of the Chinese in Panama \t33  \t2.\tThe Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Nationalism,   \t\tEn-Gendering Diaspora\t54  \t3.\tMigration Stories: Serial Migration and the Production of   \t\tHome and Identity in Diaspora\t86  \t4.\t\tHome at the Intersection of Nations: Between Panama, China,   \t\tand the United States\t113  \t5.\t\tImmigrant Dreams and Nightmares: Remaking Community   \t\tAmid New Migrations \t136  \t6.\t\"Good-bye, Uncle Sam, Hello, Uncle Chang\": Globalization, the China-  Taiwan Conflict, and the Racialization of Chineseness \t164  \t\tConclusion: Toward a Framework for the Study of Asians in   \t\tthe Americas \t195  \t\t\tEpilogue: \"The Chinese Century\"--Redefining Panamanian   National Identity \t209  \t\tNotes\t215\t\t\tReferences\t227\t\t  \tIndex\t241","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405572776279,"sku":"9780804758468","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804758468.jpg?v=1730492882","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/memories-of-a-future-home-9780804758468","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}