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{"title":"Refugee Community Gardens and the Politics of Self-Help","authors":"C. Tsu","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1973943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1973943","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the history of community gardens set up for refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in the 1980s as a window into debates surrounding resettlement, economic inequality, and welfare dependency in the United States. It argues that despite advocates’ emphasis on the continuity to the past that gardening has provided for refugees, refugee gardeners identified a vast disjuncture between their rural existence in Southeast Asia and the functions of vegetable growing in the U.S. Through community gardening, refugees nonetheless leveraged their intimate knowledge of nature and the environment to gain a measure of economic empowerment.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"96 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58995616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bearing Witness: Using Video Ethnography to Map Embodied Geographies of Home","authors":"Son-Ca Lam","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1981195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1981195","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Bearing witness through video ethnography is a generative practice for revealing nuanced elements of non-verbal sociocultural practices that otherwise remain hidden in interview-based research methods. I share how I used this methodology to highlight the sociocultural practices and sensory worlds that constitute the assemblage forming the everyday embodied geographies of home for post-1975 Vietnamese refugee women. Intervening in discourses that portray refugee women as victims of their circumstance, I center Vietnamese refugee women’s subjecthood to show how they exercise agency and make home in the face of the on-going sociospatial displacements that punctuate their everyday lives after resettlement.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"45 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44830876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Refugee Worlding: M.I.A. and the Jumping of Global Borders","authors":"L. Bui","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1981536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1981536","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyzes the life and work of refugee-turned-singer M.I.A. to explain the concept of refugee worlding, the transversal intersectional modes of being a refugee. Exploring the artist’s unique aesthetics as well as her play with time-space, I indicate the ways such a practice is emblematic of the creative and critical methodology of Critical Refugee Studies (CRS). As a border hopper, M.I.A.’s imaginative mobilization and weaponizing of refugee-ness jump scales, musical and otherwise, a disruption of the militarized contexts that drive the flight of migrants. Such artprop takes stock of the many world(s) forged, embodied, performed, and crafted on refugee-centered terms.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"60 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46902617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Locating Palestinians at the Intersections: Indigeneity, Critical Refugee Studies, and Decolonization","authors":"Eman Ghanayem, Jennifer Mogannam, Rana Sharif","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1981807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1981807","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This forum traces the specificity and complexity of the Palestinian refugee. In centering Palestinian subjectivity and the nature of settler colonial displacement, the authors illuminate the contributions of the Palestinian refugee experience to various fields, especially the field of critical refugee studies. As they respond to key concerns in the context of Palestine and its refugees, the contributors interrogate the power dynamics that work to determine refugee fate, situate ancestral knowledge and the revolutionary role of Palestinian women, challenge discursive trends that racialize Palestinians, and illuminate the land-based struggle and the actions and hopes of the Palestinian project of decolonization.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"9 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43836067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Critical Refugee Studies and Asian American Studies","authors":"Y. Espiritu","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1989263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1989263","url":null,"abstract":"I didn’t know I was missing it until I had it. The “it” here refers to the profound intellectual companionship forged with members of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective (CRSC) as we bring our whole refugee selves – our family secrets, memory gaps, and private grief as well as our creative energy, critical thinking, and improvised practices – to the work of building a field of study for and with displaced human beings. When we launched the CRSC in 2017, I had already spent close to three decades building Asian American studies as a scholar and teacher. And yet, for most of that time, I had deferred, deflected, and decentered my experiences as a refugee from Việt Nam. In truth, I did not know how to tell the story of Vietnamese refugees – how to highlight the ongoing costs of war without reducing us to mere victims, even if our losses have been significant? Having received my doctoral training in sociology, I knew that I did not want to replicate that field’s treatment of Vietnamese refugees as a problem of immigrant integration. But I was less clear on how to engage Asian American studies, whose understanding of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese refugees have long been more about Asian America than about Vietnam and its displaced people. As a Vietnamese refugee scholar, I am disheartened that Vietnamese lives, histories, and politics continue to be peripheral to the field of Asian American studies. It is not that Asian American scholars are disinterested in the Vietnam War; it is more that their retelling of the war is more about Asian America than about Vietnam(ese). In these retellings, the Vietnam War was a pivotal event that radicalized their identities and politics, forging their racial consciousness as “Asian American.” As an Asian American activist declared, “As long as there are U.S. troops in Asia, as long as the U.S. government and the military wage wars of aggression against Asian people . . . racism against them is often racism against us.” Accordingly, in her study of the Asian American Movement, Karen L. Ishizuka notes that “it was no accident that Asian America was born at the peak of the Vietnam War.” However inadvertently, the focus on the Vietnam War as an Asian American event – a site for Asian American political awakening – elides the long-lasting costs of the war on Vietnamese bodies and psyches. As Nguyen-Vo Thu Huong poignantly observes, “Vietnamese Americans as refugees occupy the position of self-mourners because no one else mourns us.” Moreover, the common reference to the U.S. war in Southeast Asia as the Vietnam War semantically locates that war, and all that it connotes, geographically in Việt","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"2 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48485274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Letter to My Daughter: An Archive of Future Memories","authors":"Dena Al-Adeeb","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1993765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1993765","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT “A Letter to My Daughter: An Archive of Future Memories” is a multimedia project about a mother-daughter charting the interconnections between a trilogy of familial forced displacements and their relationship to pivotal moments in contemporary Iraqi/diasporic and American histories, the ongoing living effects of U.S. military interventions, and their ever-evolving effect on intergenerational relations. The multimedia project weaves performance, letter writing, video art, and installation toward bearing witness to the textures of war-based displacement and racialized dispossession, especially in the moment of exile; it also identifies the often convoluted, fragmented, and post memories that accompany transnational migration and refugee movement.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"144 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43044927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Critical Refugee Studies and Asian American Studies","authors":"Y. Espiritu","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"I didn’t know I was missing it until I had it. The “it” here refers to the profound intellectual companionship forged with members of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective (CRSC) as we bring our whole refugee selves – our family secrets, memory gaps, and private grief as well as our creative energy, critical thinking, and improvised practices – to the work of building a field of study for and with displaced human beings. When we launched the CRSC in 2017, I had already spent close to three decades building Asian American studies as a scholar and teacher. And yet, for most of that time, I had deferred, deflected, and decentered my experiences as a refugee from Việt Nam. In truth, I did not know how to tell the story of Vietnamese refugees – how to highlight the ongoing costs of war without reducing us to mere victims, even if our losses have been significant? Having received my doctoral training in sociology, I knew that I did not want to replicate that field’s treatment of Vietnamese refugees as a problem of immigrant integration. But I was less clear on how to engage Asian American studies, whose understanding of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese refugees have long been more about Asian America than about Vietnam and its displaced people. As a Vietnamese refugee scholar, I am disheartened that Vietnamese lives, histories, and politics continue to be peripheral to the field of Asian American studies. It is not that Asian American scholars are disinterested in the Vietnam War; it is more that their retelling of the war is more about Asian America than about Vietnam(ese). In these retellings, the Vietnam War was a pivotal event that radicalized their identities and politics, forging their racial consciousness as “Asian American.” As an Asian American activist declared, “As long as there are U.S. troops in Asia, as long as the U.S. government and the military wage wars of aggression against Asian people . . . racism against them is often racism against us.” Accordingly, in her study of the Asian American Movement, Karen L. Ishizuka notes that “it was no accident that Asian America was born at the peak of the Vietnam War.” However inadvertently, the focus on the Vietnam War as an Asian American event – a site for Asian American political awakening – elides the long-lasting costs of the war on Vietnamese bodies and psyches. As Nguyen-Vo Thu Huong poignantly observes, “Vietnamese Americans as refugees occupy the position of self-mourners because no one else mourns us.” Moreover, the common reference to the U.S. war in Southeast Asia as the Vietnam War semantically locates that war, and all that it connotes, geographically in Việt","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"19 1","pages":"2 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86541598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"BurmAmerican Foodscapes: Refugee Re-settlement and Resilience","authors":"Tamara C. Ho","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1992091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1992091","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines the resettlement of Burmese refugees in the United States through the lens of food. Looking specifically at Christian community gardens, corporatized meat processing, a feature film, and nonfiction book, I analyze how Karen refugees have participated in U.S. food economies and investigate processes of selective and serial migration, religion, representation, and community-building. “Critically juxtaposing” two different, although related, case studies enables a preliminary mapping of how refugees from Burma/Myanmar have resettled in the United States in the early twenty-first century, with a focus on legibility, racialization, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), and mutual aid.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"73 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44618538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the Wake of George Floyd: Hmong Americans’ Refusal to Be a U.S. Ally","authors":"Maysa Vang, Kit W. Myers","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1974781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1974781","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyzes the tenuous relationship between refugees and African Americans, specifically Hmong Americans in relation to Black Lives Matter following the murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers, one of whom is Hmong. We argue that Hmong expose the messiness of race relations in the U.S. due to their implication as a U.S. ally in Southeast Asia. While Hmong refugees/Americans can be called to enact violence on behalf of the U.S. militarized state, Hmong American activists refuse the reprised role of the ally, insisting on justice for Floyd and other Black people killed by the police.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"20 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46845004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conflict and Care: Vietnamese American Women and the Dynamics of Social Justice Work","authors":"Thúy Võ Đặng, Thao Ha, T. Nguyen","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1976025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1976025","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This collection of essays explores the experiences of Vietnamese American women scholar-activists navigating the complexities of antiracist work within the Vietnamese American community. Each essay discusses the gendered and generational disciplining faced by the authors while doing social justice work and reflects on the choices they made in response. Attentive to the historical forces that have shaped the Vietnamese American community, the authors advocate for building bridges and fostering spaces of compassionate and radical care.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"120 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47486002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}