The Subject(s) of Human Rights: Crises, Violations, and Asian/American Critique

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"This work takes seriously the ways in which Asian American studies has from its founding engaged with humanitarian crises and large-scale violations. Committed to extending this critical work across local/global, domestic/international, and immigrant/refugee frames, this collection relocates Asian America from the periphery to the center of human rights critique"--

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Human rights violations have always been part of Asian American studies. From Chinese immigration restrictions, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, yellow peril characterizations, and recent acts of deportation and Islamophobia, Asian Americans have consistently functioned as subordinated "subjects" of human rights violations. The Subject(s) of Human Rights brings together scholars from North America and Asia to recalibrate these human rights concerns from both sides of the Pacific.The essays in this collection provide a sharper understanding of how Asian/Americans have been subjected to human rights violations, how they act as subjects of history and agents of change, and how they produce knowledge around such subjects. The editors of and contributors to The Subject(s) of Human Rights examine refugee narratives, human trafficking, and citizenship issues in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. These themes further refract issues of American war-making, settler colonialism, military occupation, collateral damage, and displacement that relocate the imagined geographies of Asian America from the periphery to the center of human rights critique.

Author Biography

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials is a Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. She is the author of Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing and War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work.Guy Beauregard is a Professor at National Taiwan University. He is an Associate Member of Simon Fraser University's Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research.Hsiu-chuan Lee is Professor in the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University.

Long Description

Human rights violations have always been part of Asian American studies. From Chinese immigration restrictions, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, yellow peril characterizations, and recent acts of deportation and Islamophobia, Asian Americans have consistently functioned as subordinated "subjects" of human rights violations. The Subject(s) of Human Rights brings together scholars from North America and Asia to recalibrate these human rights concerns from both sides of the Pacific. The essays in this collection provide a sharper understanding of how Asian/Americans have been subjected to human rights violations, how they act as subjects of history and agents of change, and how they produce knowledge around such subjects. The editors of and contributors to The Subject(s) of Human Rights examine refugee narratives, human trafficking, and citizenship issues in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. These themes further refract issues of American war-making, settler colonialism, military occupation, collateral damage, and displacement that relocate the imagined geographies of Asian America from the periphery to the center of human rights critique.

Details ISBN1439915725 Pages 280 Series Asian American History & Cultu ISBN-10 1439915725 ISBN-13 9781439915721 Format Hardcover Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-12-06 Short Title The Subject(s) of Human Rights Language English Subtitle Crises, Violations, and Asian/American Critique UK Release Date 2019-12-06 Imprint Temple University Press,U.S. Place of Publication Philadelphia PA Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2019-12-06 NZ Release Date 2019-12-06 US Release Date 2019-12-06 Illustrations 1 halftone Author Hsiu-chuan Lee Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. Alternative 9781439915738 Edited by Hsiu-chuan Lee DEWEY 323.119507 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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