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Moving Beyond the Forever Foreigner–Honorary White Binary: Asian/American Education Scholars on Re/Claiming Diasporic and Transnational Lived Experiences

Sat, April 9, 4:05 to 6:05pm, Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Room 152 B

Session Type: Symposium

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This session brings together eight Asian/American scholars whose work focuses on the experiences of culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse Asian/America populations with various diasporic and transnational affiliations. Addressing but also moving beyond Tuan’s (1998) groundbreaking paradigm that Asian/Americans are depicted in rigid binary terms as either forever foreigners or honorary Whites, the scholars of this session seek to articulate more nuanced views of how various Asian-origin individuals of the diaspora including Asian immigrants, international students, resident aliens, second-and-subsequent generations, as well as those with multiple national affiliations, have reclaimed citizenship, “culture,” identity, and language on their own terms.

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