Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia

Springer International Publishing AG

Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in AsiaAuthor(s): Shanshan Lan, Milo Debnr\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer International Publishing AG\nISBN-13: 9783031815447, 978-3031815447\nSynopsis\nThis open access edited volume addresses the multi-layered relations between migration, transnational flows, and the contested meanings of race in Asia. It tries to answer the following questions: how do migration and transnational flows from the Western world impact racial knowledge formation in Asian societies? To what extent do they challenge, perpetuate, and reshape unequal power relations based on the intersection of race, gender, class, nationality, citizenship, and migration status in Asia? How are dominant Western racial categories such as race, whiteness, and blackness redefined and reconstructed in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, when transnational mobility became both heavily restrict.