In her article “Diaspora Politics, Homeland Erotics, and the Materializing of Memory” by Louisa Schein, the author argues that analyses of the diaspora cannot be in-depth if it forgets to look at women, gender, and sexual issues. In her reading, Schein illustrates three accounts to highlight how the Hmong immigrant experience and the perpetuation of their homeland practices are complex. Here, she writes that the community experience is relatively continuous. She also argues that Hmong politics and culture forge a transnational fraternity in the diasporic minority. To debate this myth, Schein relates that “the material consequentiality of homeland practices is intractable conditioned by the activities of cultural production, from ethnic media to festivals to rituals of hospitality (pg.724).” My question is, were the Hmong gender dynamics different before the politicoeconomic minoritization within the United States?
Schein, L. “Diaspora Politics, Homeland Erotics, and the Materializing of Memory.” As part of: Anderson and Lee’s Displacements and diasporas: Asians in the Americas. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
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