Displacements and diasporas
Subtitle: Asians in the Americas / edited by Wanni W. Anderson, Robert G. Lee.
Contributors: Anderson, Wanni Wibulswasdi, 1937-; Lee, Robert G., 1947-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Asians -- America -- History.; Asians -- America -- Ethnic identity.; Asians -- Migrations.; Refugees -- America -- History.; Immigrants -- America -- History.; Transnationalism.; America -- Emigration and immigration.; Asia -- Emigration and immigration.; America -- Ethnic relations.
Other titles: Asians in the Americas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Asian American displacements / Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee; title: Diaspora, transnationalism, and Asian American studies : positions and debates / Christopher Lee; title: Diasporas, displacements, and the construction of transnational identities / K. Scott Wong; title: Images of the Chinese in West Indian history / Walton Look Lai; title: On coolies and shopkeepers : the Chinese as Huagong (laborers) and Huashang (merchants) in Latin America/Caribbean / Evelyn Hu-DeHart; title: From Japanese to Nikkei and back : integration strategies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser; title: In the Black Pacific : testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian displacements / Bernard Scott Lucious; title: Lived simultaneity and discourses of diasporic difference / Nina Glick Schiller; title: From refugees to transmigrants: the Vietnamese in Canada / Louis-Jacques Dorais; title: Between necessity and choice: Rhode Island Lao American women / Wanni W. Anderson; title: Mixed desires : second-generation Indian Americans and the politics of youth culture / Sunaina Maira; title: Crossing borders of disciplines and departments / Robert G. Lee; title: Anthropology, Asian studies, Asian American studies : open systems, closed minds / Nancy Abelmann; title: The ordeal of ethnic studies in the age of globalization / E. San Juan Jr.