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Publication Date: 2025
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Southeast Asian Diaspora Communities and Consciousness
Dinny Risri Aletheiani1
Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, v19 n3 p216-226 2025
The article explores Southeast Asian diasporas' complex histories, experiences, and community formations in the U.S. and Southeast Asian diaspora consciousness which refers to emerging awareness of shared identities, heritages, and experiences of displacement due to migration, exile, displacement, wars, violence, political persecution, economic hardship, and lack of opportunities. This consciousness embodies multiple senses of belonging and unbelonging, emotional ties to homelands, resistance to colonial and imperial dominations and oppressions, cultural/linguistic hybridities and in-betweenness, and the complexities of maintaining cultural/linguistic heritages while navigating cultural/linguistic identities. Focusing on such Southeast Asian diaspora experiences as memories, interconnectedness, healing, and visions, the author examines Southeast Asian diaspora consciousness such as remembering toward imagining and practicing healing; continuities and discontinuities of coexistence, uncertainty, and survivance; intergenerational intertwining; and Southeast Asian diaspora space and place consciousness. Connecting through shared memories, experiences, and struggles, Southeast Asian diasporas invent their shared futures for thriving existence.
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Self Concept, Cultural Background, Immigrants, Laotians, Hmong People, Land Settlement, Vietnamese People, Cambodians, Refugees, Family Relationship, Futures (of Society), Conflict, War, Trauma, Cultural Traits, Therapy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Mental Health, Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Community Characteristics
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA