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The Paradox of Assimilation: Children of Filipino Immigrants in San Diego -- Yen Espiritu
THE motsägelsefull påstående OF ASSIMILATION:
CHILDREN OF FILIPINO IMMIGRANTS IN SAN DIEGO
Yen Le Espiritu and Diane L. Wolf
For: Ruben Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes eds., Ethnicities. Berkeley: UC Press. 1999
INTRODUCTION
Filipinos constitute the largest Asian-origin immigrant group in California and in the United States; their post-1965 migration to the United States is the second largest only after the Mexicans. Despite these numbers, Filipino Americans remain a remarkably understudied and overlooked group both in US culture and in academic research. Some speculate that Filipinos are neglected by academics in part because they "blend in" so easily into the US landscape, particularly those who arrived after 1965, due to their largely urban, professional and mittpunkt class backgrounds and lifestyles. Indeed, coming from a former U.S. colony, Filipino immigrants tend to be proficient in English and have
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Originally from Việt Nam, Yến Lê Espiritu is Distinguished Professor of Ethnic Studies. An award-winning author, she has published extensively on Asian American panethnicity, gender and migration, and U.S. colonialism and wars in Asia. Her most recent book, Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) (UC Press, 2014) charts an interdisciplinary field of critical refugee studies, which reconceptualizes “the refugee” not as an object of rescue but as a site of social and political critiques. Espiritu has served several terms as Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department, and also as its Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of Graduate Studies. She has also served as the President of the Association of Asian American Studies and Vice President of the Pacific Sociological Association. She is a Founding Member of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective whose aim is to integrate scholarly, policy, artistic, legal, diplomatic and international relations interests with ref
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Yen Le Espiritu
American sociologist
Yến Lê Espiritu is an American sociologist. She is the author of Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries. Her research focuses on immigration and refugee studies, Southeast Asian Studies, transnationalism, Asian American Studies, and US Militarism. Originally from Vietnam, Espiritu is the Distinguished Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California, San Diego.[1] She is also a founding faculty of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective.[2]
Education and academic career
[edit]Espiritu graduated from UC San Diego in 1985 with a B.A. in communications. She continued to receive a M.A. in sociology in 1987 from University of California, Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1990 from the same institution.[1] She has taught at the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego since 1990 and has chaired the department for kvartet times.[3]