Christopher Lee’s “Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Asian
American Studies: Positions and Debates” focuses on the study of diaspora and “how
Asian American Studies has come to conceive of its object of study as
transnational” (Lee 2005). Originally emerging from Judaic Studies to discuss
the historical scattering of Jewish communities throughout, the term diaspora
has been used to explore transnational experiences affected by displacement and
dispersal, sociocultural formations of people, and the idea of “home” and
“homeland”. Asian America in a transnational description puts the East and the
West together in relation, keeping in check that carefully merging Asian
American Studies and Asian Studies will help further the diasporic studies. Transnationalism
is put into play when the intersectionality of multiple identities is applied
to the research because diaspora is formed by new cultural and social spaces
that may or may not provide a place of home. Diaspora is not just one thing,
but it is a mixture of identities, adaptations, and cultures.
Question: Diasporic communities have long since existed
throughout time and history, but will it be possible in the future when
diaspora becomes an individual identity?
Works Cited:
Anderson, Wanni W. Displacements and
Diasporas: Asians in the Americas. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2005.
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