Asian Diasporas: Creating boundaries

Asian Diasporas New Conceptions, New Frameworks examines Asian migrants through the idea of diasporas, which originally comes from Jewish context, arguing that “There are no Asian diasporas.” Instead, Sui suggests that there is only are only ways of seeing people as Asians. Sui also argues that Asia is an imagined construct created by Europeans and highlights that there is a rejected narrative. Diasporic communities don’t view themselves as “ethnic minorities within nation-states but as transnational subjects” where migrants feel caught between two worlds. The term “Diasporas” brings attention to the unsettling of national identities and the way Europeans see the world.

by Juanita Ledesma