Displacements and diasporas : Asians in the Americas / / edited by Wanni W. Anderson, Robert G. Lee.

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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:vii, 301 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Asian American displacements / Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee
  • Diaspora, transnationalism, and Asian American studies : positions and debates / Christopher Lee
  • Diasporas, displacements, and the construction of transnational identities / K. Scott Wong
  • Images of the Chinese in West Indian history / Walton Look Lai
  • On coolies and shopkeepers : the Chinese as Huagong (laborers) and Huashang (merchants) in Latin America/Caribbean / Evelyn Hu-DeHart
  • From Japanese to Nikkei and back : integration strategies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser
  • In the Black Pacific : testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian displacements / Bernard Scott Lucious
  • Lived simultaneity and discourses of diasporic difference / Nina Glick Schiller
  • From refugees to transmigrants: the Vietnamese in Canada / Louis-Jacques Dorais
  • Between necessity and choice: Rhode Island Lao American women / Wanni W. Anderson
  • Mixed desires : second-generation Indian Americans and the politics of youth culture / Sunaina Maira
  • Crossing borders of disciplines and departments / Robert G. Lee
  • Anthropology, Asian studies, Asian American studies : open systems, closed minds / Nancy Abelmann
  • The ordeal of ethnic studies in the age of globalization / E. San Juan Jr.