Melanie
Manuel
ASA 114
001
10 January
2020
In reading
Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee’s chapter, “Asian American Displacements”
from Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas, I realized
that an Asian diaspora does not separate Asian migrants from Asian Americans,
but rather allows the two to exist in this sphere, not as mutually exclusive
objects, but as subjects providing a deeper understanding of concepts of home
and diaspora. Anderson and Lee writes, “[m]any thousands of Asian migrants who
belong to the transnational working class, the new hewers of wood and haulers
of water in the global economy, are tied to ‘homelands’ by debt, familial
obligation, and statelessness” (13). This line reminds me of why I’m in
university in the first, why I continue to push forward with the goal of a
better life, and while I participate in the working class as a retail worker,
my own journey still ties back to the anxieties of familial obligation and even
statelessness. It’s my way of belonging and feeling as though I am giving back
to my mother in some way, because I work and go to school with the intent of
taking care of her and my sister when I am older.
The image
I included is a poem called “Goldwasser” by Luisa A. Igloria, which elicits a
sense of comfort, home, and warmth, an end goal for many Asian Americans--it is
very much one that I strive for as well.
Works
Cited
Andrson,
Wanni W. and Robert G. Lee Eds. 2005. Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in
the Americas. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
Image
included: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=177&issue=3&page=12
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