Includes bibliogr. references and index.

Asian American displacements / Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee - Diaspora, transnationalism, and Asian American studies : positions and debates / Christopher Lee - Diasporas, displacements, and the construction of transnational identities / K. Scott Wong - Images of the Chinese in West Indian history / Walton Look Lai - On coolies and shopkeepers : the Chinese as Huagong (laborers) and Huashang (merchants) in Latin America/Caribbean / Evelyn Hu-DeHart - From Japanese to Nikkei and back : integration strategies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser - In the Black Pacific : testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian displacements / Bernard Scott Lucious - Lived simultaneity and discourses of diasporic difference / Nina Glick Schiller - From refugees to transmigrants: the Vietnamese in Canada / Louis-Jacques Dorais - Between necessity and choice: Rhode Island Lao American women / Wanni W. Anderson - Mixed desires : second-generation Indian Americans and the politics of youth culture / Sunaina Maira - Crossing borders of disciplines and departments / Robert G. Lee - Anthropology, Asian studies, Asian American studies : open systems, closed minds / Nancy Abelmann - The ordeal of ethnic studies in the age of globalization / E. San Juan Jr.