Displacements and diasporas [electronic resource] : Asians in the Americas / edited by Wanni W. Anderson, Robert G. Lee.
Contributor(s): Anderson, Wanni W. (Wanni Wibulswasdi) | Lee, Robert G | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005Description: vii, 301 p. ; 24 cm.Other title: Asians in the Americas.Subject(s): 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 relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.895/07 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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