Call for papers: ASIAN DIASPORAS. Spring 2019 Special Issue of WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly. Priority Deadline: MARCH 1, 2018.
Guest Editors:
Lili Shi, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Yadira Perez Hazel, University of Melbourne
Asian diasporas are gendering spaces and times that intertwine stories of race, transnationalism, citizenship, and postcoloniality. We contend that Asia is not only a geographic term but also a comparative one. It is the collective sum of heterogeneous racial, regional, transhistorical, and transnational politics that transcends bodies and identities of “Asia” across Global South and North as well as global mediascape. We also embrace an expansive notion of diaspora, one that is beyond the mere causal result of travel and migration that reifies the binary of home and settlement that subsequently “privileges the mobility of masculine subjects” (Campt, T. & Thomas, D. A., 2008, 2). We propose Asian diasporas as scattered communities, identities, and relationships that are conditioned by, while influencing and transforming, global struggles of nation, empire, postcoloniality, transnationality, and respective hegemonies.
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