Asian diasporas
Subtitle: new formations, new conceptions
By: edited by Rhacel S. Parreñas and Lok C.D. Siu.
Contributors: Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar.; Siu, Lok C. D.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780804752435; 9780804752442
Subjects: Asian diaspora.; Asians -- Foreign countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Asian diasporas : new conceptions, new frameworks / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Lok C.D. Siu; title: Latin America in Asia-Pacific perspective / Evelyn Hu-DeHart; title: Filipino sea men : identity and masculinity in a global labor niche / Steven C. McKay; title: "My mother fell in love with Mỹ-Xuân first" : arranging "traditional" marriages across the diaspora / Hung Cam Thai; title: The queen of the Chinese colony : contesting nationalism, engendering diaspora / Lok C.D. Siu; title: Ritual in diaspora : pedagogy and practice among Hindus and Muslims in Trinidad / Aisha Khan; title: "Our flavour is greater" / Sharmila Sen; title: Asian bodies out of control : examining the adopted Korean existence / Tobias Hübinette; title: Diasporic politics and the globalizing of America : Korean immigrant nationalism and the 1919 Philadelphia Korean Congress / Richard S. Kim; title: When minorities migrate : the racialization of the Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda; title: Legal servitude and free illegality : migrant "guest" workers in Taiwan / Pei-Chia Lan; title: Asian diasporas, and yet ... / David Palumbo-Liu; title: Beyond "Asian diasporas" / Ien Ang.