John Bound and Sarah Turner
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226110448
- eISBN:
- 9780226110455
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226110455.003.0004
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
There is no question that doctorate education at US universities has drawn an increasing number of students from around the world in recent decades. The growth of foreign students in US doctorate ...
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There is no question that doctorate education at US universities has drawn an increasing number of students from around the world in recent decades. The growth of foreign students in US doctorate education may produce a wide range of benefits and costs for universities. This chapter describes the trends in doctorate attainment among foreign students at US universities, and distinguishes significant trends by country of origin and type of US doctorate program. The analysis demonstrates substantial shifts in country of origin over the last three decades among doctorate students, with the growth in foreign students coming largely from Asian countries, including China and India. Evidence presented in the chapter suggests that the expansion of foreign doctorate attainment in the sciences—particularly outside of economics—at US universities has been largely aligned with the research function at universities. The availability of research funding has been significant in supporting the increased demand among foreign doctorate students.Less
There is no question that doctorate education at US universities has drawn an increasing number of students from around the world in recent decades. The growth of foreign students in US doctorate education may produce a wide range of benefits and costs for universities. This chapter describes the trends in doctorate attainment among foreign students at US universities, and distinguishes significant trends by country of origin and type of US doctorate program. The analysis demonstrates substantial shifts in country of origin over the last three decades among doctorate students, with the growth in foreign students coming largely from Asian countries, including China and India. Evidence presented in the chapter suggests that the expansion of foreign doctorate attainment in the sciences—particularly outside of economics—at US universities has been largely aligned with the research function at universities. The availability of research funding has been significant in supporting the increased demand among foreign doctorate students.
Jungbu Kim and Seong Soo Oh
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198729433
- eISBN:
- 9780191796340
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198729433.003.0011
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter explores the possibility of knowledge transfer from South Korea to neighboring Asian countries through incoming Asian students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ...
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This chapter explores the possibility of knowledge transfer from South Korea to neighboring Asian countries through incoming Asian students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Korea is aggressively trying to attract foreign students and the share of foreign students in STEM fields is increasing. However, the majority of graduates tend to return home upon completion of their degrees. The Korean case discussed offers a series of interpretations and policy directions. First, the problem of brain drain does not exist since returnees transfer better technical skills and tap into networks built while studying in Korea. Second, the higher rate of return casts some doubt on the unfavorable living and studying environment in Korea for foreigners since the foreign student population is increasing. Third, to nurture professional–technical networking between Asian alumni and their connections in Korea, this chapter suggests more active efforts be made through cooperative research projects.Less
This chapter explores the possibility of knowledge transfer from South Korea to neighboring Asian countries through incoming Asian students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Korea is aggressively trying to attract foreign students and the share of foreign students in STEM fields is increasing. However, the majority of graduates tend to return home upon completion of their degrees. The Korean case discussed offers a series of interpretations and policy directions. First, the problem of brain drain does not exist since returnees transfer better technical skills and tap into networks built while studying in Korea. Second, the higher rate of return casts some doubt on the unfavorable living and studying environment in Korea for foreigners since the foreign student population is increasing. Third, to nurture professional–technical networking between Asian alumni and their connections in Korea, this chapter suggests more active efforts be made through cooperative research projects.
Gabriel J. Felbermayr and Isabella Reczkowski
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262028172
- eISBN:
- 9780262326018
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028172.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
This chapter sets the stage for the rest of the book by first documenting the upward trend in student mobility in developed countries. It then raises an important question: To what extent do ...
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This chapter sets the stage for the rest of the book by first documenting the upward trend in student mobility in developed countries. It then raises an important question: To what extent do countries that attract foreign students benefit from an increased stock of educated foreign workers? To address this question, theory-founded gravity models are applied to two sets of international panel data which cover the years 1970-2000: a new database on bilateral student mobility and a database on bilateral stocks of immigrants of age 25 or higher by educational attainment. The empirical exercise reveals that doubling the student intake increases the stock of foreign high skilled workers by 5.7 percent, which corresponds to 71 percent of the increase in international students. That so called retention rate is however driven by Anglo-Saxon countries, while the rates for, say, continental European countries are much lower.Less
This chapter sets the stage for the rest of the book by first documenting the upward trend in student mobility in developed countries. It then raises an important question: To what extent do countries that attract foreign students benefit from an increased stock of educated foreign workers? To address this question, theory-founded gravity models are applied to two sets of international panel data which cover the years 1970-2000: a new database on bilateral student mobility and a database on bilateral stocks of immigrants of age 25 or higher by educational attainment. The empirical exercise reveals that doubling the student intake increases the stock of foreign high skilled workers by 5.7 percent, which corresponds to 71 percent of the increase in international students. That so called retention rate is however driven by Anglo-Saxon countries, while the rates for, say, continental European countries are much lower.
Lena Inowlocki, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar, and Felicia Herrschaft
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861344939
- eISBN:
- 9781447301554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861344939.003.0021
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Research and Statistics
This chapter draws on several years of intercultural university work by first tracing the shifts in policy regarding ‘foreign’ students in German schools and universities. Using a number of cameo ...
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This chapter draws on several years of intercultural university work by first tracing the shifts in policy regarding ‘foreign’ students in German schools and universities. Using a number of cameo situations, the chapter traces the growing use by minority ethnic students of their own experience, as well as the impact of their presence and views on other students, and how staff can encourage such reflective processes. In particular, the chapter highlights and challenges the homologising and pathologising of mainstream theoretical models on ethnicity and migration. Discussions include: education in immigration; foreignness and difference; observations on the processes of identity; difference versus ‘making strange’; and some observations on how students encounter discourse on migration.Less
This chapter draws on several years of intercultural university work by first tracing the shifts in policy regarding ‘foreign’ students in German schools and universities. Using a number of cameo situations, the chapter traces the growing use by minority ethnic students of their own experience, as well as the impact of their presence and views on other students, and how staff can encourage such reflective processes. In particular, the chapter highlights and challenges the homologising and pathologising of mainstream theoretical models on ethnicity and migration. Discussions include: education in immigration; foreignness and difference; observations on the processes of identity; difference versus ‘making strange’; and some observations on how students encounter discourse on migration.
Chih-Ming Wang
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824836429
- eISBN:
- 9780824871055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824836429.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This introductory chapter supplies the background context for the study, as well as its limitations. It largely concerns the history and culture of foreign students studying in the United States, ...
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This introductory chapter supplies the background context for the study, as well as its limitations. It largely concerns the history and culture of foreign students studying in the United States, with particular emphasis on the political activism of Chinese students in the United States and their writings about America from the late nineteenth century to the present. These provide important insights into the transnational making of Asian America. The chapter also defines the term “Asian American”—which will be used throughout the book—to hold together the multiple desires and contrapuntal positions that the foreign student embodies in the transpacific flows of knowledge, capital, identity, and politics. By foregrounding the foreign student as an instance of the Asian American subject, the chapter attempts to identify a transpacific coming together that is based on discrepant relations structured upon Western domination over Asia.Less
This introductory chapter supplies the background context for the study, as well as its limitations. It largely concerns the history and culture of foreign students studying in the United States, with particular emphasis on the political activism of Chinese students in the United States and their writings about America from the late nineteenth century to the present. These provide important insights into the transnational making of Asian America. The chapter also defines the term “Asian American”—which will be used throughout the book—to hold together the multiple desires and contrapuntal positions that the foreign student embodies in the transpacific flows of knowledge, capital, identity, and politics. By foregrounding the foreign student as an instance of the Asian American subject, the chapter attempts to identify a transpacific coming together that is based on discrepant relations structured upon Western domination over Asia.
Josephine Nock-Hee Park
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- June 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190257668
- eISBN:
- 9780190257699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190257668.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Chapter 3 reads Susan Choi’s debut novel, The Foreign Student, a fictionalized account of her father’s wartime ordeal and experience as a foreign student in the American South. The foreign student is ...
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Chapter 3 reads Susan Choi’s debut novel, The Foreign Student, a fictionalized account of her father’s wartime ordeal and experience as a foreign student in the American South. The foreign student is a key yet understudied figure of Cold War integration, and Choi’s foreign student is a wartime friendly who makes his way to the US, where he conducts an American romance that trumps the damaging political alliances of the war. The chapter analyzes Choi’s literary attempts to revise the history of the war as a means of enlivening her protagonist within its frame. She recuperates this deeply wounded friendly and transports him to America, but his successful romantic union is paired with a revelation of wartime betrayal that marks the limits of his integration.Less
Chapter 3 reads Susan Choi’s debut novel, The Foreign Student, a fictionalized account of her father’s wartime ordeal and experience as a foreign student in the American South. The foreign student is a key yet understudied figure of Cold War integration, and Choi’s foreign student is a wartime friendly who makes his way to the US, where he conducts an American romance that trumps the damaging political alliances of the war. The chapter analyzes Choi’s literary attempts to revise the history of the war as a means of enlivening her protagonist within its frame. She recuperates this deeply wounded friendly and transports him to America, but his successful romantic union is paired with a revelation of wartime betrayal that marks the limits of his integration.
Robert J. Kaczorowski
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823239559
- eISBN:
- 9780823239597
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239559.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Chapter 5 discusses the impact of World War II on law students and legal education and the nation’s and state’s responses. Dean Wilkinson again played a leading role in shaping and achieving changes ...
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Chapter 5 discusses the impact of World War II on law students and legal education and the nation’s and state’s responses. Dean Wilkinson again played a leading role in shaping and achieving changes in national and state standards to accommodate law students who were drafted out of law school and returning veterans. It explains accelerated programs and the establishment of summer sessions with rolling enrollments and graduations during the war. The Law School admitted foreign educated lawyers who fled Nazi Germany and countries it occupied to practice law in the U.S. Law School graduates gained access to positions with the city’s elite law firms. After the war the Law School joined a select group of law schools in adopting a college degree requirement for admission. The G.I. Bill strengthened the Law School’s financial condition, but Fordham University continued to use the Law School to subsidize its other divisions. This prevented the Law School from adopting changes in its program that were occurring in the leading law schools. It also continued Dean Wilkinson’s practice-oriented conception of legal education, and the Law School lost its place as the second law school in New York City to New York University School of Law.Less
Chapter 5 discusses the impact of World War II on law students and legal education and the nation’s and state’s responses. Dean Wilkinson again played a leading role in shaping and achieving changes in national and state standards to accommodate law students who were drafted out of law school and returning veterans. It explains accelerated programs and the establishment of summer sessions with rolling enrollments and graduations during the war. The Law School admitted foreign educated lawyers who fled Nazi Germany and countries it occupied to practice law in the U.S. Law School graduates gained access to positions with the city’s elite law firms. After the war the Law School joined a select group of law schools in adopting a college degree requirement for admission. The G.I. Bill strengthened the Law School’s financial condition, but Fordham University continued to use the Law School to subsidize its other divisions. This prevented the Law School from adopting changes in its program that were occurring in the leading law schools. It also continued Dean Wilkinson’s practice-oriented conception of legal education, and the Law School lost its place as the second law school in New York City to New York University School of Law.
Ofer Malamud
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226110448
- eISBN:
- 9780226110455
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226110455.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
The United States remains the predominant destination for foreign students. There are growing concerns that American higher education is losing ground to other countries. At this juncture it is ...
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The United States remains the predominant destination for foreign students. There are growing concerns that American higher education is losing ground to other countries. At this juncture it is probably Europe that presents the main challenge to America's dominance in higher education. Europe is also in the process of instituting some far-reaching reforms to the structure of higher education. In 1999, ministers of education from twenty-nine European countries issued the Bologna Declaration in order to modernize and harmonize the European system of higher education. The ultimate aim of the Bologna process is the creation of a European Higher Education Area with academic degree and quality assurance standards comparable throughout Europe. The Bologna reforms also have the potential to encourage greater competition between universities in Europe. This chapter explores the main characteristics associated with the Bologna reforms and considers their possible consequences for higher education in the United States and Europe. The push to harmonize the disparate European systems of higher education under the Bologna process offers an important benefit from a research perspective.Less
The United States remains the predominant destination for foreign students. There are growing concerns that American higher education is losing ground to other countries. At this juncture it is probably Europe that presents the main challenge to America's dominance in higher education. Europe is also in the process of instituting some far-reaching reforms to the structure of higher education. In 1999, ministers of education from twenty-nine European countries issued the Bologna Declaration in order to modernize and harmonize the European system of higher education. The ultimate aim of the Bologna process is the creation of a European Higher Education Area with academic degree and quality assurance standards comparable throughout Europe. The Bologna reforms also have the potential to encourage greater competition between universities in Europe. This chapter explores the main characteristics associated with the Bologna reforms and considers their possible consequences for higher education in the United States and Europe. The push to harmonize the disparate European systems of higher education under the Bologna process offers an important benefit from a research perspective.
Alejandro Portes, Rosa Aparicio, and William Haller
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520286290
- eISBN:
- 9780520961579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520286290.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
In this chapter, we review the recent history of immigration to Spain—from its past as a labor-exporting country to its transformation into a recipient of major foreign flows. Reasons for this ...
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In this chapter, we review the recent history of immigration to Spain—from its past as a labor-exporting country to its transformation into a recipient of major foreign flows. Reasons for this transformation are discussed, and data illustrating the evolution of immigration in recent years are examined. Available information on the growth of foreign-origin students in the Spanish educational system and the early research literature focused on this phenomenon are also reviewed. The chapter closes with a review of the Spanish literature on the country’s model of integration of its immigrants and their offspring as well as its practical and theoretical implications.Less
In this chapter, we review the recent history of immigration to Spain—from its past as a labor-exporting country to its transformation into a recipient of major foreign flows. Reasons for this transformation are discussed, and data illustrating the evolution of immigration in recent years are examined. Available information on the growth of foreign-origin students in the Spanish educational system and the early research literature focused on this phenomenon are also reviewed. The chapter closes with a review of the Spanish literature on the country’s model of integration of its immigrants and their offspring as well as its practical and theoretical implications.
Amy C. Tang
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190464387
- eISBN:
- 9780190464400
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190464387.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter explores the concept of trauma and the cultural work it performs in Asian American studies. It shows how multiculturalism’s demand for legible racial subjects inspires critics to resolve ...
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This chapter explores the concept of trauma and the cultural work it performs in Asian American studies. It shows how multiculturalism’s demand for legible racial subjects inspires critics to resolve Asian Americans’ racial “triangulation,” or their ambiguous positioning between African Americans and whites, by grounding contemporary Asian American identity in the historical trauma of nineteenth-century Asian exclusion. Although this secures the counterhegemonic status of Asian American identity, it obscures the profound demographic shifts inaugurated by the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act. By contrast, Susan Choi’s novel The Foreign Student forwards an understanding of trauma that foregrounds rupture rather than continuity, which enables a more complex portrait of Asian American history and politics, as well as new cross-racial alliances. Choi’s use of trauma thus shows how repetition exposes rather than resolves contemporary social predicaments and how the impasses of repetition yield possibilities, even if they do not generate progress.Less
This chapter explores the concept of trauma and the cultural work it performs in Asian American studies. It shows how multiculturalism’s demand for legible racial subjects inspires critics to resolve Asian Americans’ racial “triangulation,” or their ambiguous positioning between African Americans and whites, by grounding contemporary Asian American identity in the historical trauma of nineteenth-century Asian exclusion. Although this secures the counterhegemonic status of Asian American identity, it obscures the profound demographic shifts inaugurated by the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act. By contrast, Susan Choi’s novel The Foreign Student forwards an understanding of trauma that foregrounds rupture rather than continuity, which enables a more complex portrait of Asian American history and politics, as well as new cross-racial alliances. Choi’s use of trauma thus shows how repetition exposes rather than resolves contemporary social predicaments and how the impasses of repetition yield possibilities, even if they do not generate progress.
Leslie Bow
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814791325
- eISBN:
- 9780814739129
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814791325.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter situates the Asian outsider as a figure of productive alienation and imperfect correspondence, one who questions the ways in which lines of affiliation and connection become drawn and ...
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This chapter situates the Asian outsider as a figure of productive alienation and imperfect correspondence, one who questions the ways in which lines of affiliation and connection become drawn and policed. In both Susan Choi's 1998 novel, The Foreign Student and Abraham Verghese's 1994 memoir, My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS, embracing “foreignness” from the position of postcolonial exile can be read as a means of suspending loyalty to stratified social structures, both racial and sexual. In both texts, sexual transgression precipitates a renewed understanding of not only the ways in which color lines are drawn, but how points of human division and intimacy, of home and belonging, might be reconfigured. In looking at these two narratives that center on the latency of racism “outed” by proximity to sexual “perversity,” the chapter suggests that Asian-American literature provides a conceptual frame for highlighting other lines that divide and connect.Less
This chapter situates the Asian outsider as a figure of productive alienation and imperfect correspondence, one who questions the ways in which lines of affiliation and connection become drawn and policed. In both Susan Choi's 1998 novel, The Foreign Student and Abraham Verghese's 1994 memoir, My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS, embracing “foreignness” from the position of postcolonial exile can be read as a means of suspending loyalty to stratified social structures, both racial and sexual. In both texts, sexual transgression precipitates a renewed understanding of not only the ways in which color lines are drawn, but how points of human division and intimacy, of home and belonging, might be reconfigured. In looking at these two narratives that center on the latency of racism “outed” by proximity to sexual “perversity,” the chapter suggests that Asian-American literature provides a conceptual frame for highlighting other lines that divide and connect.
Jodi Kim
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816655915
- eISBN:
- 9781452946221
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816655915.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter begins with a discussion of “Fragments of the Forgotten War” and “Still Present Pasts,” which demonstrate how Korean American cultural producers suggest the link between America’s ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of “Fragments of the Forgotten War” and “Still Present Pasts,” which demonstrate how Korean American cultural producers suggest the link between America’s imperial presence in Korea, and the gendered racial “return” of the Korean subject back to the imperial center. It cites Susan Choi’s novel The Foreign Student, Heinz Insu Fenkl’s autobiographical novel Memories of My Ghost Brother, and Deann Borshay Liem’s documentary First Person Plural—all of which offer a troubling interpretation of the Korean War. The Korean War indicates a wider problem of Cold War knowledge that affects both American nationalist discourse and Korean America’s public knowledge regarding the conditions of possibility for its formation in the post-1945 situation.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of “Fragments of the Forgotten War” and “Still Present Pasts,” which demonstrate how Korean American cultural producers suggest the link between America’s imperial presence in Korea, and the gendered racial “return” of the Korean subject back to the imperial center. It cites Susan Choi’s novel The Foreign Student, Heinz Insu Fenkl’s autobiographical novel Memories of My Ghost Brother, and Deann Borshay Liem’s documentary First Person Plural—all of which offer a troubling interpretation of the Korean War. The Korean War indicates a wider problem of Cold War knowledge that affects both American nationalist discourse and Korean America’s public knowledge regarding the conditions of possibility for its formation in the post-1945 situation.
Devesh Kapur
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226110448
- eISBN:
- 9780226110455
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226110455.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
This chapter, which outlines the principal characteristics of Indian higher education and its recent rapid growth, especially the number of students and institutions, the fields of study, and the ...
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This chapter, which outlines the principal characteristics of Indian higher education and its recent rapid growth, especially the number of students and institutions, the fields of study, and the sources of supply, focuses on the key challenges facing Indian higher education resulting from a massive increase in the demand for higher education. It then analyzes the reasons for the quality deterioration despite India's robust growth and a legacy of one of the better higher education systems in developing countries. There are numerous studies that detail both the need for better higher education in the country and the challenges in recruiting a scientifically competent workforce. Various indicators employed to study the quality of higher education in India, such as research output, infrastructure, and placement of graduates, point to the need for reform in the higher education, public, and private sectors. India's knowledge needs in areas with large public goods pay offs, in social sciences and a host of basic sciences, be it climate change, health economics, infectious diseases, or agricultural technologies, are woefully neglected. The future of India's higher education system will have considerable effects on the US higher education system given that students from India constitute the largest number of foreign students in the United States.Less
This chapter, which outlines the principal characteristics of Indian higher education and its recent rapid growth, especially the number of students and institutions, the fields of study, and the sources of supply, focuses on the key challenges facing Indian higher education resulting from a massive increase in the demand for higher education. It then analyzes the reasons for the quality deterioration despite India's robust growth and a legacy of one of the better higher education systems in developing countries. There are numerous studies that detail both the need for better higher education in the country and the challenges in recruiting a scientifically competent workforce. Various indicators employed to study the quality of higher education in India, such as research output, infrastructure, and placement of graduates, point to the need for reform in the higher education, public, and private sectors. India's knowledge needs in areas with large public goods pay offs, in social sciences and a host of basic sciences, be it climate change, health economics, infectious diseases, or agricultural technologies, are woefully neglected. The future of India's higher education system will have considerable effects on the US higher education system given that students from India constitute the largest number of foreign students in the United States.
Chih-Ming Wang
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824836429
- eISBN:
- 9780824871055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824836429.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This concluding chapter remarks on the unstable categorization of the “Asian American” due to its transnational and multidirectional linkages. The Asian American identity possesses multivalent and ...
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This concluding chapter remarks on the unstable categorization of the “Asian American” due to its transnational and multidirectional linkages. The Asian American identity possesses multivalent and discrepant articulations of the transpacific movement that bring together different subjects, identities, and desire that cohabit the transnational cultural political space that this book has called “Asia/America.” These traits create difficulties in theorizing the Asian American identity as a whole—difficulties further compounded by the dangers of diaspora giving way to divisive politics and ethnic absolutism. Yet the chapter argues that it is this diasporic etymology that enables us to better locate the foreign students and their overseas experiences in the Asian/American nexus, particularly in the site of the university, which is at once national and transnational.Less
This concluding chapter remarks on the unstable categorization of the “Asian American” due to its transnational and multidirectional linkages. The Asian American identity possesses multivalent and discrepant articulations of the transpacific movement that bring together different subjects, identities, and desire that cohabit the transnational cultural political space that this book has called “Asia/America.” These traits create difficulties in theorizing the Asian American identity as a whole—difficulties further compounded by the dangers of diaspora giving way to divisive politics and ethnic absolutism. Yet the chapter argues that it is this diasporic etymology that enables us to better locate the foreign students and their overseas experiences in the Asian/American nexus, particularly in the site of the university, which is at once national and transnational.
Janus Adams
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732740
- eISBN:
- 9781604734713
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732740.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This chapter describes the life of Janus Adams during the civil rights movement years. The era was a hopeful time that filled the people with possibility. As an undergraduate attending college in ...
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This chapter describes the life of Janus Adams during the civil rights movement years. The era was a hopeful time that filled the people with possibility. As an undergraduate attending college in upstate New York, Adams realized that her campus had more African foreign students than African Americans. She brandished her scholastic excellence as a shield believing that, once others knew how good she was, she would be accepted. At the time, Adams didn’t know that the name of the game was power. Her parents did not tell her that the problem wasn’t being Black; it was racism and the Doctrine of White Supremacy. What her parents didn’t know, they failed to apply themselves to the racial wounds their child suffered. Along with the progress made over time, this legacy of hurt is one Adams, like most African Americans, still struggles to heal.Less
This chapter describes the life of Janus Adams during the civil rights movement years. The era was a hopeful time that filled the people with possibility. As an undergraduate attending college in upstate New York, Adams realized that her campus had more African foreign students than African Americans. She brandished her scholastic excellence as a shield believing that, once others knew how good she was, she would be accepted. At the time, Adams didn’t know that the name of the game was power. Her parents did not tell her that the problem wasn’t being Black; it was racism and the Doctrine of White Supremacy. What her parents didn’t know, they failed to apply themselves to the racial wounds their child suffered. Along with the progress made over time, this legacy of hurt is one Adams, like most African Americans, still struggles to heal.
