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Title Displacements and diasporas [electronic resource] : Asians in the Americas / edited by Wanni W. Anderson, Robert G. Lee.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005.

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Description vii, 301 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Anderson, Wanni W. (Wanni Wibulswasdi), 1937-
Lee, Robert G., 1947-
ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Asians in the Americas
ISBN 0813536103 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813536111 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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