diaspora

2019 CUNY Conference on Citizenship, Belonging, and Identity in the Age of White Nationalism

By

Taking into account considerations of immigration, race, gender, and diaspora, AAARI’s 2019 annual conference asks: What does the meteoric rise of Trumpian racist white nationalism say about the nature of systemic racism in our country today? Why is it now primarily and explicitly rooted in anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim nativist racism, and where do Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) — their diverse ethnic groups — fit (or not fit) in these citizenship orders? How has the higher education research community and the activist community collaborated and how can they continue to strategically collaborate together?

Read more

Keeping Up with the Nguyens: When Poor Immigrants Return to the Homeland

By

This lecture focuses on the social and personal sides of monetary flows in the Vietnamese diaspora. With few exceptions, the private use of money has been considered too personal and too mysterious for migration scholars to tackle, unless they examine “development issues,” such as daily household expenditures. Prof. Hung Cam Thai will focus on low-wage … Read more

Unfamiliar Harbors: A Jamaican Chinese Archive of Intimacies from Kingston to Kowloon

By

How might Kingston be a port of call for the Overseas Chinese? And how might Hong Kong be an important metropolis of the Black diaspora? In this talk, Tao Leigh Goffe examines the intersections of the African and Asian diasporas in a journey from New York to Jamaica to the New Territories in Hong Kong where through the technology of photography and the internet she was reunited with Afro-Jamaican and Chinese family she had never knew existed.

Read more

Internet Hinduism and the North American Hindu Diaspora

By

Talk Cancelled Hinduism’s adherents, nowhere more so than in the United States, have displayed a marked tendency to turn towards various forms of digital media, and in particular the internet, to forge new forms of Hindu identity, endow Hinduism with a purportedly more coherent and monotheistic form, refashion our understanding of the history of Hinduism’s … Read more

Is There a Chinese Diaspora and Does It Really Matter?

By

The financial and cultural prominence of Chinese populations outside of the mainland of China has heightened because of the recent phenomenal economic growth of the People’s Republic of China. With settlements in disparate regions of the world, overseas Chinese have been linked to those in the mainland both culturally as well as financially. The underpinning … Read more

2006 CUNY Conference on Points of Connection: South Asians and the Diaspora

By

Bring together scholars and experts who are engaged in the study of South Asian communities in Asia and the United States. To present findings on South Asian communities, especially India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Overview will comprise of demographic, social and economic analyses of women’s issues, human rights, business, leadership and the recent tsunami disaster in South Asia.

Read more