In both readings for this week, they were talking about the overall general outlook of the Asian Diaspora and how displacement within these diasporic groups affected their experiences and their livelhood within America or the world outside of their homeland. In Transnationalizing Vietnam, the working definition is defined within the first couple page. It is used to invoke memories from the homeland even though most migrants cannot come back. Going back for migrant workers might stop them attainng finacial support for their families from their homeland or even political persecution from their own government. It is quoted that "[the] term diaspora tends to evoke a sense of positive connections to a homeland, but sometimes a country and parts of its overseas population do not have good relations..." (Valverde, 1). Diaspora in general is to settle but remember the homeland. However migrants are also actively being displaced in order to create diasporic movements within their countries. As stated in "Asian American Displacements" in Displacements and Diasporas : Asians in the Americas, displacement is removing home in immigrant commuties. Home is defined "as a physical space, an economic space, a political space, a social space, or an emotional space has been experienced, challenged, and contested at different historical moments by different Asian groups in the Americas." (Anderson, 13). If there is any kind of disruption, people will ultimately dpread apart causing them to question what is their actual home.
Questions: How do immigrants cope from the separation from their homeland when they disperse? How do they discover these communities in order to survive in their country where they are situated in/
Work Cited
Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline. Transnationalizing Viet Nam : Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2012. Print. Asian American History and Culture.
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