... in both the archive and public sphere alongside ethnographic work conducted with Sikh immigrants who work in canneries and the fields. The aim is to pause in the present impasse to consider the nonbecoming of unknown forms—an ethnographic “reaching and ungrasping” in which the future is not fixed...

...Sheng-mei Ma Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Immigrant Subjectivities and Desires in Overseas Student Literature: Chinese, Postcolonial, or Minority Text? Sheng-mei Ma Immigrant literature’s peculiar absence as a category in U.S. academic dis...

...Peter Nien-chu Kiang Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Pedagogies of life and Death: Transforming Immigrant/Refugee Students and Asian American Studies Peter Nien-chu Kiang Changing Landscapes Nearly three decades have passed since Third World...

...Eithne Luibheid Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act: An "End" to Exclusion? Eithne Luibheid The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is generally portrayed as bringing an end...

...Jiemin Bao Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Same Bed, Different Dreams: Intersections of Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality among Middle- and Upper-class Chinese Immigrants in Bangkok Jiemin Bao When Guoyi,’ a Chinese immigrant woman in Bangkok...

... that the figure of the stateless child challenges state logics of immigration control in two ways. First, born in Malaysia but without proper identity documentation or legal status from any nation, stateless youth in the study were “deportable to nowhere.” Second, Malaysian immigration control inadvertently...

...Hyunshik Ju Abstract Two stage plays written after 2010 about North Korean defectors in South Korea are dealt with in this article, Mokran Eonni ( Sister Mokran ) and Toillit Pipeul ( Toilet People ). This article employs an analytical framework that weaves the terms of the immigrant...

...Timothy Yun Hui Tsu This paper examines postwar Japanese experiences of kakyō , or “overseas Chinese,” focusing on three “sites”: the black market, Chinatown, and Kabukichō. It argues that Japanese society assigns to the Chinese immigrant community stereotypical meanings that reflect first...

... to Manchukuo, a puppet state of the Japanese Empire. What followed was the expropriation of local Chinese peasants and the grabbing of their land by Japan to facilitate the distribution of land to Japanese immigrants. This resulted in the phenomenon of dispossessed Chinese peasants, which further entailed...

...Danièle Bélanger Vietnamese immigrant female spouses account for the second largest group of “foreign brides” in Taiwan and South Korea. This essay examines the local industry in Vietnam that facilitates and organizes marriages between local women and foreign men. The analysis focuses on how...

... proliferations. The militarized and gendered diasporas of Korean transnational adoption constitute a particular mode and temporality of migration whose specificities and complexities cannot be captured sufficiently via general tropes of immigration, refugee displacement, and adoption. The essay thus...

...Helen J. S. Lee This article uses the comic poetic genre senryu as a source through which to explore the dynamics of lived experience of working-class Japanese immigrants to Korea. Challenging the dominant paradigm by which we view colonial reality, as a neatly divided portrait of colonial society...

... silenced and invisibilized, and interrogates the counterpointing of Eastwood's character, Walt, and his normative white masculinity with two dysfunctional immigrant masculinities—that of the effeminate, childlike geek and that of the hyperviolent and transgressive gangster. The piece proceeds to read Hmong...

..., and their divergent and even self-conflicted views toward maritime commerce, immigrants, and people of different races. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 imperial identity pirates Sino-Java diplomatic history cultural memory genre References Abramson Marc S. 2008 . Ethnic...

.... Asian immigration to the United States began in the mid-nineteenth positions 5:2 0 1997 by Duke University Press. positions 5:2 Fall 1997 vi century with the developing U.S.economy’s...

... transferred directly into an Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) detention center and slated for deportation to Cambodia.1 Boran was one of the thousands of Cambodian refugees whose life courses were radically altered by recent changes...

... In conducting research among Korean immigrants in New York City and Los Angeles, I encountered people similar to Jose Lee who had left Korea but settled elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere before arriving in the United States. Unlike...

... nationalists fighting for Korean independence relocated abroad, most either in Shanghai or in the United States.’ Few people in South Korea today are aware that the early Korean immigrants, with their strong nationalist con- sciousness, founded...

... marked by contestations across multiple state and community institutions located in both the United States and Korea. During the period of Japanese colonialism, 1905- 1945, the nationalist organizing of Korean immigrants in the United...

... is a time in which capitalist expansion simultaneously generates and conceals the negative human consequences of globalization — for example, the tre- mendous upheaval and migration of Asian people. Diaspora, dislocation, exile, and immigration born...