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Call for papers: In Between Citizenship

Southeast Asians Refugees, Deportees, and Trafficked Victims

 

Call for Papers for Association for Asian American Studies Panel

Honolulu, Hawai'i
April 22-26, 2009

http://aaastudies.org/2009/call/index.html


After the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos and heavy recruitment of Southeast Asians into the US military effort, the United States pulled its military bases from Thailand.  While Thailand lost the US as one of its largest investors in “development,” the 1980s brought one of the largest influxes of refugee immigration that challenged notions of “American” racial belonging and the welfare state.  Southeast Asian migrations have been varied and fraught with troubling homeland politics (the politicking of PAD/Thaksin in the United States), welfare reform cutting off refugees, policies like the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act that deported Cambodian-Americans, H2A and other worker visas that served as legal avenues for trafficking Thais into a global economy of agri-labor and sweatshop indentured labor in places like Hawaii, Georgia, Washington, Utah, and El Monte, California.  How do community organizations and state regulation respond to these conditions in the US and in Southeast Asia?  Faced with the fact that Southeast Asian communities need to contend with the post-9/11 regulatory measures in migrations, indentured and slave labor schemes that involve international finance and trade regulations, criminalization of the youth, and forced reverse migration, this panel demonstrates the need to examine the contradictions of policy and the social experience to discuss what it means to be “in-between citizenship” as problems that challenge existing and emerging inequalities of race, nation, and within communities. 

Discussant Confirmed: Lynn Fujiwara, Associate Professor Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, University of Oregon Eugene

*** Send your abstract by Wed., October 1, 2008 ***

1)      name, affiliation, email
2)      max 250 word abstract
3)      2 pg. cv
4)      Send to Panel Chair: Sudarat Musikawong (smusikawong at yahoo.com)



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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu