Micheal Smith’s “Transnational Migration and the Globalization of Grassroots Politics” outlines how transnationalism and globalization affects immigrants and refugees. These across the border migrations leads to grassroots activism. “In the United States, recent discursive efforts to marginalize, silence, and exclude undocumented ‘others’ are signs of failure of the nation-state and economy to incorporate new immigrants by means that have proven effective in the past - factory work, trade unions, public schools, and urban politics - all of which themselves have been globally restructured and thereby weakened as means of national economic and political incorporation”(Smith, 32). This relates to the theme of politics this week as overseas nationals become more and more concerned with homeland politics. In Hong Kong for example, many are protesting the Fugitive Offenders Bill (2019) and police brutality. I know some UC Davis students who are from Hong Kong who are actively protesting what is happening across the Pacific. Politics with the homeland concerns not just people within a country, but also transnationals in America as well.
What can we do in America to support political unrest in Hong Kong? In general, what can we do as UC Davis students to support grassroots activism in countries in Asia?
Bibliography
Michael Peter Smith. “Transnational Migration and the Globalization of Grassroots Politics.”
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