Anthropology Colloquium Series Spring Semester 2007

Locating Asian America in Globalized Transnational Spaces. Pensri Ho, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies. This presentation examines the processes and implications of a social identity developed through globalized transnational spaces instead of more typical territorialized nation-states. While existing research documents such developments among working-class and elite immigrants, very little is understood about the impact of such changes on non recent immigrants and those from middle class backgrounds. The experiences of such individuals reveal the continued dialectical importance of the global and the local in creating and sustaining social imaginaries, which is not necessarily true for working-class and elite immigrants. The presentation draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among two multiple generation (1st through 3rd generation American) middle class Asian American communities in California and Maryland.

Pensri Ho is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and affiliate faculty in Anthropology and International Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections of socio-economic class, race, and transnational East Asian experiences, globalization of 2nd and 3rd generation urban Asian American professionals, and cultural citizenship and contested representative Chineseness. Her publications appear in the Virginia Journal on Social Policy and the Law, the Journal of Asian American Studies, and in Contemporary Asian Pacific American Communities Intersections and Divergences (Temple University Press).

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