Week 2- Jennifer Nguyen Bernal ASA 114

Jennifer Nguyen Bernal
Professor Valverde
ASA 114

In "Asian American Formation in the Age of Globalization" by Evelyn Hu- Dehart, she explains about the globalization with Asia and Asian Americans. Many Asian Americans feel that connection to their homeland and their culture. She talks about people like Gary felt "ethnic nationalism" and how America wants people like Asian Americans to be the "bridge builders" to Asia. They connect with other Asian countries which lead to SouthEast Asia to join this global economy. America is turning the diasporas of Asian Americans and their value into what Evelyn said as an "Asian model" to benefit capitalism. Evelyn talks about the two narratives, which are about the new Asian immigrants and the extension of the globalization. I was surprised at how the ideas of Asian values became this capitalism for globalization. Globalization leads to the exploitation of Asian workers in Asia when working for other countries for low wages and have inhumane treatment. I never thought of how the diaspora plays a role in transnational between America and Asia. I was surprised to read these Asian countries took the same idea of globalization to Mexico. They did their business in Mexico, hire Mexican workers, and muggled Asian workers there to work at a lower wage. " There, Asian international capitalists have established some 2,700 special assembly plants called maquiladoras to take advantage of Mexico's cheap labor .... to import finished consumer and industrial products into the United States"( Hu-Dehart 18). Asia has many businesses in Mexico, like how Asia has many companies that do not belong to them.

After the Civil right movement, how did the immigrants coming already had ideas of transnational practices? Is it due to their diaspora when they began to live in America? 

"Hu-Dehart, Evelyn.Introduction:Asian American Formation in the Age of    

 Globalization. Edited by Evelyn Hu-Dehart. Across the Pacific: Asian

 Americans and Globalzation. Philadelphia: Temple University 

 Press. 1999.

         

   

 "SouthEast Asia". Gallagher, Judy". n.d