Global Asian Americas

We will sponsor and generate a number of projects to open up the field of Asian-American Studies to embrace all varieties of Asian mobility, habitation, interaction, and connectivity in all the Americas, as well as embracing connected Asian spaces shaped by America’s global mobility, beginning with nineteenth century missionaries and gun ships and including twentieth century wars and capitalism. Asian America would thus include Asian territories shaped by United States (notably the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine), and Asian spaces of US war-induced refugee migration (where Afghans now top 2.6 million).

All kinds of Asian mobility in the Americas are possible subjects for this project — see also New York Migrant City — so that Asian-America also includes Asian investors in the Americas and mobile Asian cultural influence, from food and fashion to Anime, K-pop, marital arts, religion, and cinema, which, along with supply chains for commodities and pandemics, travel out of Asia from the sixteenth century. Last but not least, numerous transnational political networks, loyalties, affiliations, commodity chains, and activists in the Americas influence culture, economies, and politics all across Asia, and in turn, those Asian connections shape American institutions, including academic Asian Studies.

Here is a ruling to separate Asian American groups in State of New York data. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/new-york-state-disaggregate-data-asian-american-groups-rcna10237

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New York Migrant City

This project builds on a joint CAS-Tandon VIP course where students produced digital content for a student website.

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