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Time Magazine: The Asian Diaspora
This is an attractive site with simple navigational tools. Hover over the four tabs near the top, and pertinent articles on South Asia, Southeast Asia, North Asia, and China will appear. The clickable buttons in the lower right yield information on Diasporas of five regions of Asia.
Asian American Studies Center: UCLA
Although the focus is on UCLA information, there are many resources of interest, particularly in the left column of the homepage. A valuable resource is the “Statistical Portrait of Asian-Americans” for 2009 and previous years.
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program
The Smithsonian has many programs and projects for and about Asian-Americans. This site describes some of them. A blog about Asian Pacific American children’s books, Book Dragon, contains hundreds of reviews; they are easy to find in the category list in the right frame of the blog page.
Asian-Nation
The site map indicates the wealth of information on these Web pages; it is updated frequently and new data and categories are added. The blog is also timely.
Asia Society
There is a good deal of information about Asian-Americans on this site. A simple search will yield many articles. If one clicks on the category “Countries and History” and then on the sub-category “Traditions” in the left frame, several articles on Asian-Americans will be listed.
South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora in Children's Literature
One can find a large number of listings and reviews of children’s literature in four categories, including Young Adult and Picture Books. There are also links to other sites that deal with books for children of South Asian descent.
Author Explores Many Paths of Indian Diaspora, NPR Interview of Minal Hajratwala
In this twelve-minute audio interview, the author Minal Hajratwala discusses her book: Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents. In addition to the interview, there is a print excerpt from the book. There is also a slideshow of images from the book on the author’s site at http://www.minalhajratwala.com/book/ (see the link at the bottom of the page).
Indian Diaspora in North America: The Role of Ethnic Networks and Organizations
This is a twenty-page document presented in HTML and PDF formats on the same pages, making each of the formats difficult to read. As the title indicates, the focus is on the assistance provided by ethnic organization to the Indian community in the United States and Canada.
Literature of South Asia and the Indian Diaspora
This site is part of the SASIALIT mailing list. The page discusses contemporary literature of South Asia. In addition to an archive of past mailings, the most useful portion of the site is the listing of South Asian literature online resources.
PBS: Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
This Bill Moyers special series was first presented in 2003. There is abundant information on the site, though it is not immediately apparent. In the left-side box are the three major pages; by going deeper inside these pages, one can find full transcripts of the programs, a forty-eight-page Educator’s Guide and several short videos. The resource list of organizations is quite extensive.
Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, 1842 to 1949
The Journal of Asian Studies published this article in 1999. The article begins with a discussion of the concept, "diaspora” followed by a review of Chinese migration in the years 1842 to 1949.
You Can Never Go Home Again: Cultural Memory and Identity Formation in the Writing of Southeast Asian Chinese
This essay compares the memories of China for writers from the Chinese Malaysian and Chinese Singaporean communities. The author looks at the aspects of China and Chinese culture that the writers from each country emphasize.
Chinese in the Pacific: Where to Now?
This series of articles, compiled by the Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora of the Australian National University, dates from 2007. In addition to the individual essays, there is a lengthy bibliography.
Colloquium: Reconceptualising the Southern Chinese: From Community to Diaspora
This is a transcript (all on one page) of a panel discussion held in 1999. The opening remarks focus on the term, “diaspora”; the other speakers refer to this topic, as well. In addition, there are exchanges on historical perspectives and more recent trends in the study of Chinese communities in South Asia and Australia.
Cultural Identities in the Chinese Diaspora
Although it was written ten years ago by Marie-Paule Ha (now at the University of Hong Kong), because of its historical perspective, this essay has relevance today.
Asia Pacific: Perspectives: Philippine Studies and the Centennial of the Diaspora
The University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim places the contents of its journal Asia Pacific: Perspectivesonline. This special issue, from 2006, is devoted to Philippine Studies. The articles view different aspects of the history of the Philippine Diaspora.
Global Nation
This news site is a product of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and its aim is to be the “home away from home of the overseas Filipino community.” There are news items, job announcements, opinion columns, a listing of Embassies, and other pieces of information germane to overseas Filipinos.
The Global Filipino Diaspora as an Imagined Community
This essay discusses the notion of diaspora and examines the process of exchanges of information, people, etc. to and from the Philippines, thus creating an “imagined community.” There are two negative aspects of this article; one is that it was published in the mid-1990s, and it could use some updating; the other is the unfortunate design of the pages with the words on the right side overlapped by a dark border.
Japanese American National Museum
A highlight of this site is the section, “Museum Collections Online”; it can be found under the tab, “Collections & Research”. There are diaries, photos, paintings, and other documents about the years of internment and life in Japanese-American communities.
The 17th Century Japanese Diaspora
This essay examines the seventeenth century diaspora in Japan in three phases: expansion, integration, and absorption. It is an interesting view of Japanese migration in that century.
Return Migration and Constructions of Ethnic Identity in the Korean Diaspora
This article is presented in two formats: HTML and PDF. Both of them are somewhat difficult to read. The essay looks at the ethnic identities of Koreans in China and Korean-Americans, based on more than sixty interviews and empirical data.
Mapping Multiple Histories of Korean American Transnational Adoption
The author of this working paper describes the history of Korean American adoption, beginning with the end of the Korean War in 1953, and broadens the topic to a more general discussion of transnational adoption, including the adoption of Chinese children. |
