Displacements and Diasporas : Asians in the Americas /

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Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and Diasporas explores this genuinely transnationa...

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Otros Autores: Abelmann, Nancy (Contribuidor), Anderson, Wanni W. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Dorais, Louis-Jacques (Contribuidor), Hu-Dehart, Evelyn (Contribuidor), Jr., E. San Juan (Contribuidor), Lai, Walton Look (Contribuidor), Lee, Christopher (Contribuidor), Lee, Robert G (Editor ), Lee, Robert G. (Contribuidor), Lesser, Jeffrey (Contribuidor), Lucious, Bernard Scott (Contribuidor), Maira, Sunaina (Contribuidor), Schiller, Nina Glick (Contribuidor), Wong, K. Scott (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2005]
Temas:
Asians > Migrations.
Asians > America > Ethnic identity.
Asians > America > History.
Immigrants > America > History.
Refugees > America > History.
Transnationalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PART ONE. Frameworks
  • 1. Asian American Displacements
  • 2. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Asian American Studies: Positions and Debates
  • PART TWO. Displacements and Diasporas: Historical and Cultural Studies Perspectives
  • 3. Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities
  • 4. Images of the Chinese in West Indian History
  • 5. On Coolies and Shopkeepers
  • 6. From Japanese to Nikkei and Back
  • 7. In the Black Pacific
  • PART THREE. Displacements and Diasporas: Anthropological Perspectives
  • 8. Lived Simultaneity and Discourses of Diasporic Difference
  • 9. From Refugees to Transmigrants
  • 10. Between Necessity and Choice
  • 11. Mixed Desires
  • PART FOUR. Opening the Dialogue
  • 12. Crossing Borders of Disciplines and Departments
  • 13. Anthropology, Asian Studies, Asian American Studies
  • The Ordeal of Ethnic Studies in the Age of Globalization
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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