This handbook presents cutting-edge research on Asian transnationalism written by experts in the areas of migration, diaspora, ethnicity, gender, language, education, politics, media, art, popular culture, and literature for academics, researchers, and students of international migration, Asian diaspora, and transnationalism.

Ajaya K. Sahoo is Professor and Head of the Centre for Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction. Asian Transnationalism

Ajaya K. Sahoo

PART I. Contextualizing Asian Transnationalism

1. Transnationalism, Activism and Civil Society in Japan

Simon Avenell

2. Tracing Hmong/Miao Diasporic Circuits and Transcultural Engagements

Louisa Schein and Chia Youyee Vang

3. A Historical Materialist Approach to Transnational Japanese Studies

Suma Ikeuchi

4. South Asians in the New World: Hindoos, Coolies and Model Minorities

Indira Karamcheti

5. Shifting Identities in Northeastern Cambodia: From Slaves to Indigenous Peoples

Ian G. Baird

PART II. Transnationalism and Socio-Cultural Identities

6. Transnational Spirits and Cultural Identity: A Case Study of Vietnamese Diasporic Communities in San Jose City, USA and Jingdao Island, China

Nguyen Thi Hien

7. The Thaipusam Festival in Malaysia: On Ritual Polytropy

Teo Sue Ann

8. Japanese American and Okinawan American Transnationalism in Hawai'i and the Continental United States

Jonathan Y. Okamura

9. Folklore in the Making of Chinese American Identity

Juwen Zhang

10. Commodifying Transnationalism for the General Audience

Minh X. Nguyen

PART III. Transnationalism, Education and Infrastructure

11. Indonesian Transnational Identity and Migration Journey: Education and the Lack Thereof

Agustian Sutrisno and Yoga Prasetyo

12. School Alumni, Transnationalism and Asian Diaspora: An Unexplored Potential for Researchers

Niranjan Casinader, Howard Prosser, Fiona Longmuir and Peter van Cuylenburg

13. Infrastructuring Student Mobilities in Asia

Yi'En Cheng

14. Australia-India Student Mobility and Performances of Transnationalism

Michele Lobo, Anna Kent and David Lowe

15. Chinese Transnational Student Mobilities and Experiences in Canada: Gendering the Student-Migrant Narrative

Amrita Hari and Chen Wang-Dufil

PART IV. Transnationalism, Gender and Development

16. Everyday Transnational Lives of Uzbek Migrants in Russia: A Socio-Legal Perspective

Rustamjon Urinboyev and Sherzod Eraliev

17. Domestic Violence in Diasporic Asian and Pacific Islander Immigrant Populations in the United States

Stewart Chang

18. Performance As/Is Care in the Transnational Space: Caring at a Distance and in Proximity

Peilin Liang

19. Writing the "Other" NRIs through a Transnational Lens in Goat Days and Painting Kuwait Violet

Sukanya Gupta

20. Migration, Transnationalism and Development: The Case of Indonesian Diaspora

Azlan Tajuddin

PART V. Transnationalism and Dynamics of Diasporic Politics

21. Race, Anxiety and Shopping in the Australian Outback: Indian Hawkers and Victoria's 1884 Smallpox Outbreak

Arunima Datta

22. Papering Over Racial Capitalism: Anticolonial Newspapers and Gujarati Merchants in Colonial Mauritius

Ketaki Pant

23. Governing the Kazakh Diaspora: Kazakhstan's Evolving Policies and Institutions towards Kazakhs Abroad

I¿¿k Küçu-Bonnenfant

24. Political Participation and Representation of South Asian and Chinese Canadians: Evidence from the Greater Toronto Area

Shuguang Wang

25. Migration, Transnationalism and Citizenship in Kyrgyzstan

Vanessa Ruget

PART VI. Transnationalism, Art and Media

26. Tibetan Self-Immolation in the Art of Tenzing Rigdol

Sarah Magnatta

27. Transnational Dialogues and Contemporary Art in Japan: "Missing Pieces"

Rebecca Jennison and Cynthea J. Bogel

28. Contemporary Film Culture and Convergence: Cinemediated Solidarity

Anne Ciecko

29. K-pop Trans/Nationalism

Kyong Yoon

30. Asian Youth and Resistance in Transnational Media

Veluree Metaveevinij