ANTHROPOLOGY 381

TOPIC:       Globalization and Asian Diasporas

Instructor:          Professor Martin Manalansan

00517 LECD 1                   3:00-550 M            209 DAVENPORT

The course situates Asian diasporic movement within a comparative and transnational framework that broadens the conceptual and theoretical foundations of traditional area and ethnic studies.  Using Asian American communities as points of comparison with other Asian diasporic communities in the world, the course also brings together the histories, methodologies and theories of ethnic, area, postcolonial and global/transnational studies.  By utilizing various texts from anthropology, sociology, geography, urban studies, political economy, and cultural studies, the course aims to provide students the opportunity to examine Asian American issues within emerging debates around globalization.  The course presents concepts and theories of globalization, diaspora and transnationalism as they are implicated in Asian immigration, travel and mobility in the late twentieth century and in the new millennium,