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MIGRATION, IMMIGRATIONAND REFUGEES ASIAN DIASPORAS: NEWFORMATIONS, NEWCONCEPTIONS Eds. Rhacel S. Parrenas and LokC. D. Siu Publisher: Palo Alto, Stanford University Press Year: 2007 Pagination: 320pp ISBN: 9780804752435 Price: $24.95 (USD)
This collection of essays examines the movement and migration of Asian populations on a global scale through the lens of diaspora. Here, diaspora is defined as an Ongoing and contested process of subject formation embedded in a set of cultural and social relations'. It is examined in relation to the ways in which different ethnic groups claim Asia as both their Veal' and 'imagined' homeland and site of dispersal. Drawing on a range of historical and ethnographic studies,...