K. Scott Wong’s essay in Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in Americas titled “Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities” discusses some of the factors behind the creation of diasporas, prominently beginning with the displacement side of the creation of diasporas. Wong also talks chimes in on the discourses about Asian American identities as a diaspora.
One of the more prominent points came when Wong shared an excerpt of Bharati Mukherjee’s writing titled Jasmin. One of the major lines included: “We ask only one thing: to be allowed to land; to pass through, to continue” (Wang 2010). Wong later continues by stating, “Refugees, businessment, diplomats, family members seeking each other, undocumented workers, and as we now know, terrorists, all travel the routes created by transnational diasporas, now made more complex, yet perhaps easier to negotiate due to the globalization of technology and capital” (Wang 2010).How I interpreted this text was that traveling in most cases is now made simply primarily due to all the new various ways to travel, but also recognizing that traveling is “made easier” due to colonial and imperial actions. And with the current immigration climate, it's important to recognize that the reason for coming into America is because folks from America were in their spaces.
Question: Are the primary reasons for the creation of transnational diasporas come from globalization or is does it lean more towards imperial and colonial actions?
Source:
Wong, K. Scott. “Diasporas, Displacements and the Constructions of Transnational Identities.” Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas, by Wanni W. Anderson, Apple Books ed., Rutgers Univ. Press, 2010, pp. 77–98.
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