Week 1_Leng Vang_ ASA 114

  

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?

Work Cited:

Anderson, W. W., & Lee, R. G. (2005). Displacements and diasporas: Asians in the Americas. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

https://medium.com/@Bahujan_Power/pioneering-a-survey-of-caste-in-the-diasporas-6e5a27cd82ef