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positions (2022) 30 (4): 815–838.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Eun Ah Cho Abstract This article examines the humanistic relationship between Korean Chinese and North Korean refugees on the Sino–North Korean border in Zhang Lu's film Dooman River (2010) and delineates how the ethical obligation to “our” people, or brethren ( dongpo ), is removed...
FIGURES
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 597–622.
Published: 01 August 2023
... as a stepping stone for South Korea to transform itself from a war‐torn country to an economic subempire in Asia. Encounters with Vietnamese refugees in the aftermath of the war helped form South Korea's subimperial gaze, solidifying the racial inferiority of South Koreans to the United States but establishing...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 67–89.
Published: 01 February 2023
... and of the refugee and the sociology of the stranger together. The scenes from Mokran Eonni and Toillit Pipeul analyzed in this article acutely illustrate the pain and suffering experienced by North Korean defectors, especially socially powerless groups such as women and adolescents. Their position as refugees...
FIGURES
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 737–762.
Published: 01 August 2012
... the deportation of Cambodian refugees. In following the young people's campaign to put an end to deportation, I examine the convergence of youth's failed recognition by the state as a nonvoting youth constituency with their realization of the state's exercise of “illegitimate” violence. Their activism calls...
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positions (1995) 3 (3): 806–813.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Aihwa Ong Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Roundtable
Southeast Asian Refugees and Investors in Our Midst
Aihwa Ong
The word diaspol-a evokes two kinds of intellectual predicament: The first
is about cultural Otherness...
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positions (1997) 5 (2): 551–577.
Published: 01 May 1997
...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...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 685–712.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Ma Vang This essay examines the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997 to critically engage with the context of the “secret war” in Laos (1961–75) and the “refugee question.” In doing so, it explores the ways in which the state deploys the concept of citizenship: first, as a validation...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 911–942.
Published: 01 August 2012
... and objects of inquiry. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Refugee Memories and Asian American Critique
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Shades of Past, Present, and Future
When I was young, I often saw Vietnamese soldiers patrolling the com-
munity gatherings...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 987–1018.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Minh-Ha T. Pham This article draws together communications and media studies with feminist theory and refugee scholarship to closely consider Vietnamese-American subject and community formations from the reference point of sound and audition. Specifically, it examines the ways in which...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 389–415.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of this “return” of themes that had been repressed for political reasons since the end of the war. Trần Anh Hùng was born in Vietnam in 1962. He and his family left as refugees at the end of the war in 1975. Cyclo , filmed on location in the first large-scale foreign production in Vietnam, marked his return...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 161–187.
Published: 01 February 2013
... homecoming stories not only reconfigure the “refugee subjectivity” of Vietnamese diaspora but also recast Asian American studies in diasporic contexts by taking the aspirations and concerns of Vietnam seriously, although their journeys “home” are by no means patriotic returns but only temporary visits...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
... 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...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 671–684.
Published: 01 August 2012
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ence of wartime refugees and migrants in the United States, further proof
of the postcolonial truism “we are here because you were there,” as well as
their changing connections to their so- called homelands, necessarily draw
our inquiries...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 831–850.
Published: 01 August 2012
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ese, Lao, Hmong, Mien, Thai Dam, Kammu, Dega, and all other commu-
nities uprooted by the “Vietnam War” as Southeast Asians and as refugees.3
No longer just a geographical location, the Southeast Asia in America, both
in its tragedies...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 531–539.
Published: 01 August 2023
... potential for experimentation and reinvention. Known for working with marginalized “floating populations” such as beggars, vagrants, refugees, and other migrants without urban household registration, Yang tackles the psychiatric ward in Jiayu Pass (1999–2000) to become a patient himself. Lu Xun's 1918...
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 235–252.
Published: 01 February 2005
....
Another point of intersection for Schmitt and Genet is their deep concern
for the Middle East, but the problem is how to think about the relations
between the terrorist and the refugee, these two figures who are forced to
positions 13:1 Spring 2005...
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positions (1997) 5 (2): 501–522.
Published: 01 May 1997
... “immigration.” Some Cubans immigrated under the provisions of
the 1965 INA, but more entered through refugee channels unconnected to the
act. A number of Central Americans have also benefited from the 1965 provi-
sions, but a substantial number...
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positions (2004) 12 (2): 401–429.
Published: 01 May 2004
...
for Japanese consumption and the difficult conditions of life faced not only
by people in Vietnam, but by the Vietnamese refugees, migrants, students,
contract laborers, and illegal workers I had just been meeting and finding
out about in Tokyo...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 245–275.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Sovereignty, and Refugees .” Public Culture 9 , no. 3 : 3 – 32 . Bhabha Jacqueline . 2009 . “ Arendt's Children: Do Today's Migrant Children Have a Right to Have Rights? ” Human Rights Quarterly 31 , no. 2 : 410 – 51 . Bhabha Jacqueline . 2016 . Child Migration and Human Rights...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 943–946.
Published: 01 August 2012
... and Asian American
studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Her rst book, The Gift of
Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages, focuses on the promise of “giving” freedom
concurrent with and contingent...
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