“Itinerant Belonging: Korean Diasporic Migration to and from Mexico”

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 | 4-5pm

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Meeting ID: 952 8369 4500
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Rachel Lim ACES Fellow | Visiting Assistant Professor | History

Abstract:
Since 1905, when the first Korean migrants arrived in Mexico as contract laborers to Yucatán peninsula haciendas, Mexico has been a crossroads for thousands of Korean migrants moving across disparate sites in the Américas, including Cuba, Argentina, and the United States. Due to a hemispheric history of immigration exclusion, racial violence, and restrictive citizenship laws, serial migration has been a longstanding pattern among Asian diasporic groups. Yet these temporary, transient, and transit migrations are obscured by immigration histories that center assimilation into one national polity or the binational relationship between homeland and settlement country. The 20th century history of Korean serial migration, Lim argues, redraws the boundaries of “Asian America” and reveals the possibilities and limitations of diasporic solidarities, affinities, and networks.

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