The Anderson and Lee
readings explores the concept of Asian American diaspora. It defines
displacements in the sense that it is not just physical but also emotional,
cultural, and intellectual displacement from the home country. It shows
how after the Vietnam War the new immigrants and refugees brought with them not
just the political turmoil of the war but introduce a new population of Asians
who left their homeland and creation of their own identities in respect to the
homeland and host country.
In the current world, the diaspora now is affecting
people in the Middle East. With the two wars that the United States
started in Iraq and Afghanistan and the current unrest in countries like Syria
there has been a high rise in immigrants and refugees from these
countries. These people now are having to forge new identities and
concept of where is home.
Does this idea of diasporas hold true to only the mass
movement of a group of people or does it consider the people who go overseas to
work and established their lives in the country of work?
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