Source: The Apl Song by the Black Eyed Peas
These reading were talking about how transnationalism and diaspora are in parallel with one another. Without the use of transnationalism, the diaspora will not happen as people try to idenitfy and became situated within their home after going abroad. In Nina Glick Schiller's article in the Displacements and Diaspora, “Lived Simultaneity and Discourses of Diasporic Difference”, she talks about how transnationalism is just a method for people go to countries and the diaspora is immigrant's experience within that time and space. She unravels that the diaspora is always political because she sees immigrants as settlers being nostalgic and being homesick of their homeland. She talks about the intricacies of being part of two cultures, something that Asian immigrants struggle or accept in order to adapt, However when considering the homeland, they are also affected by the involvement of globalization and how that influences the Diaspora as a interconnected part of the world today. The Asian diaspora is part of Asian American Studies which Christopher Lee's article, “Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Asian American Studies: Positions and Debates”, talks about. He talks about that Asian American is actually a misnomer when people generalize it as a course in college. He says that you need to talk about the diaspora because that help shapes the history of immigrants from Asia and the transnational impact it has in the world. I agree with his article that Asian American Studies should also focus with the diaspora and transnatinoalism as a majority of Asian American history devolved from it and we have to understand that past to understand the history of diaspora.
Works Cited
Nina Glick Schiller. “Lived Simultaneity and Discourses of
Diasporic Difference.” Displacement.
Christopher Lee. “Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Asian
American Studies: Positions and Debates.” Displacements.
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