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- Emerging Voices: Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
summary
While a growing number of popular and scholarly works focus on Asian Americans, most are devoted to the experiences of larger groups such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian Americans. As the field grows, there is a pressing need to understand the smaller and more recent immigrant communities. Emerging Voices fills this gap with its unique and compelling discussion of underrepresented groups, including Burmese, Indonesian, Mong, Hmong, Nepalese, Romani, Tibetan, and Thai Americans. Unlike the earlier and larger groups of Asian immigrants to America, many of whom made the choice to emigrate to seek better economic opportunities, many of the groups discussed in this volume fled war or political persecution in their homeland. Forced to make drastic transitions in America with little physical or psychological preparation, questions of "why am I here," "who am I," and "why am I discriminated against," remain at the heart of their post-emigration experiences. Bringing together eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, this collection considers a wide range of themes, including assimilation and adaptation, immigration patterns, community, education, ethnicity, economics, family, gender, marriage, religion, sexuality, and work.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Part I: Emerging Consciousness: Emigration and Ethnic Identity
- Part II: Emerging Contributions: Gender, Work, Religion, and Education
- Chapter 9: Thai Americans: Performing Gender
- pp. 145-159
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. 255-257
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813546254
Related ISBN(s)
9780813543413
MARC Record
OCLC
318240382
Pages
344
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No