Full Description
This 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 restricted and stigmatized ? The book is divided into three parts: Race, Language and Migration status, Covid-19 and the Dynamics of Racialization, Gender and Interracial Encounters. This book positions itself in the nexus of race, migration and pandemic research and will make a significant contribution to critical race studies, whiteness studies, globalization, multiculturalism, and social transformation in Asia. This book is aimed at students and scholars in race and migration studies in Asia and beyond. This is an open access book.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Researching race and migration in a transnational context.- Part I: Race, Language, and Representations.- Chapter 2. The Whiteness of English: Raciolinguistic Chronotopes and Cultural Transformations in Contemporary China.- Chapter 3. "Because I am a Foreigner": Western Migrants' Navigations of the Chinese State.- Part II: COVID - 19, Geopolitics and shifting Ethno-Racial Ideologies.- Chapter 4. "Now we are no longer needed!": How White European Migrants Talk about Race and Covid-19 in China.- Chapter 5. "EuroAmerican teachers are our hardware:" Shifting Racial Hierarchies in Chinese Private English Schools after 2020.- Chapter 6. Locating the Complexity of Whiteness in the Migration Context of Japan - white Europeans as 'good migrants'.- Chapter 7. 'White Innovation': Conceptualizing Changing Racial Hierarchies Through Migrant Entrepreneurship in Singapore and Japan.- Part III: Gender and Interracial Encounters.-Chapter 8. Being a Black Woman in Japan: The Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Nationality.- Chapter 9. Navigating Whiteness in ELT: Fear, Anger, and Exhaustion Among Chinese Women Teachers.- Chapter 10. Post-Soviet White Femininities and Marriage Migration in China.- Chapter 11. Opening New Horizons in Race and Migration Studies.
