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At the intersection of nations: Diasporic Chinese in Panama and the cultural politics of belonging.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	At the intersection of nations: Diasporic Chinese in Panama and the cultural politics of belonging./
Author:	Siu, Lok Chun Debra.
Description:	203 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Akhil Gupta.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9986505
ISBN:	9780599930490

At the intersection of nations: Diasporic Chinese in Panama and the cultural politics of belonging.
Siu, Lok Chun Debra.

At the intersection of nations: Diasporic Chinese in Panama and the cultural politics of belonging. - 203 p.

Adviser: Akhil Gupta.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2000.

My dissertation brings together Latin American, Chinese Diaspora, and North American studies by situating the ethnic Chinese in relation to Panamanian history and society, American colonialism, Chinese politics, and Chinese diaspora networks throughout the Americas. Based on sixteen months of field research conducted between 1994--1997 in Panama City, it is an ethnographic account of how ethnic Chinese in Panama imagine and forge multi-layered communities. Ethnic Chinese, with more than 150 years of presence in Panama, are a diverse group constituting about 4% of the country's 2.5 million population. By not assuming ethnicity and community as stable units bounded by the discourses and borders of nation-states, I contend that constructions of both are shaped by historical geo-politics in addition to local and national interactions. I therefore problematize the conflation of ethnicity with nation and culture, and reconceptualize community not confined by space but informed by place-specific politics. Building on theories of diaspora and transnationalism, I examine the interaction between the international political economy and localized constructions of ethnic identity. I analyze how immigration, globalization, and post-Cold War international relations are transforming the social conditions facing Chinese Panamanians. This dissertation not only challenges Asian American studies to broaden its largely U.S.-bound analytical framework; it also re-maps the social imaginary of Asian America.

ISBN: 9780599930490Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

At the intersection of nations: Diasporic Chinese in Panama and the cultural politics of belonging.
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