Asian Diasporas New Formations, New Conceptions [Hardcover]

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 inAsian Diasporaslook at the worldwide dispersal of Asian populations through the lens of diaspora. They illustrate the underlying structures of inequality that create diasporic communitiesthe 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. Asian Diasporasskillfully 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. Illustrating seemingly porous global borders,Asian Diasporasis a timely collection of rich, well-researched chapters on the lives and experiences of people originating from Asia... This collection of essays examines the worldwide dispersal of Asian populations and links these seemingly disparate movements through the category of Asian diasporas.Rhacel S. Parre?as is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author ofServants of Globalization(Stanford, 2001) andChildren of Global Migration(Stanford, 2005). Lok C. D. Siu is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social and Cultural Analã'