Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
In this talk, Hung focuses on Chinatown small businesses to analyze the impact of the post-9/11 decline in garment factories and the increase in Fuzhounese migration on ethnic businesses. Based on in-depth interviews with Chinatown small business owners and non-profit organizations, she finds that the events of 9/11 are part of a chain leading to increased luxury development and displacement of the area’s historically working-class residents.
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Winnie Tam Hung is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation research focuses on Fuzhounese youth, neoliberalism, and the restructuring of New York City Chinatown. Her project, Chinatown Rim: Chinese Subjectivities and the Cultural Politics of an Ethnic Space, is situated at the intersection of Asian American Studies, the politics of racial and class formation in the United States, and the relationship between immigration and the organization of urban spaces. Hung was recently awarded an American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women for 2008-2009.