Week 7- Kayla Lor

Louisa Schein discusses in their essay “Diaspora Politics, Homeland Erotics, and the Materializing of Memories” how men from the “west” would go back to their homeland and take advantage of homeland women, promising a way out of their peasant life and into an extravagant one.  Schein also touches base on the concept of “home” for the Hmong community, as most of them that are living in the United States try to come to terms with understanding that concept.  As a Hmong woman, stories of Hmong men going back to the homeland and marrying/sleeping with young women is a story told far too many times.  How can something as big and wide as tourism in Southeast Asia be stopped and how can these women who have been taken advantage of be helped?

Works cited: Schein, Louisa, "Diaspora Politics, Homeland Erotics and the Materializing of Memory." 1999. Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 7(3): 697-729.

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