Contemporary Asian Exclusions

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

This session examines new forms of exclusion shaping Asian and Asian American lives in the United States today. Focusing on recent policies governing the H-1B and J-1 visas, participants will explore how shifting immigration rules and growing precarity in temporary visa programs have reshaped pathways of mobility and belonging. The session also considers the resurgence of anti-non-Christian sentiment and its entanglement with racialized exclusion. Together, these discussions highlight how contemporary immigration and cultural politics reproduce hierarchies of citizenship and underscore the persistent racialization of Asian Americans in the U.S.

Sub Unit

• Asia and Asian America Section / Contemporary Asian Exclusions

Presider

• Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Princeton University

Panelists

• Rianka Roy, Wake Forest University

• Yingyi Ma, Syracuse University

• Weirong Guo, University of California-Riverside

• Jennifer Huynh, University of Notre Dame

• Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Villanova University

Session Organizer

• Amy Hsin, University of Notre Dame