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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Modern
Europe in the Words of Europe-based Asians<br>
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</b></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">When does a
flood of migrants become a diaspora? What stops a migrant from
becoming an integral part of his new society? On the one hand, there
is a pull-factor exerted by the culture of the migrant. His earlier
identity with which he judges his new world, and which he feels
eroding away even as he learns new languages and new rituals, longs
for words and a forum where his displacement can gain artistic
expression. On the other, there is the push-factor inherent in the
recipient culture's social ontology. The migrant does not arrive
into a conceptually and organisatorily neutral space. He is a
category, through which his displacement gains form and from which he
seeks to exit. In both cases, we see the distancing function of
identity at work.<br>
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Do Asian migrants in Europe constitute an Asian Diaspora? Is that term
useful? Or are we dealing with diasporas from East Asia, South Asia,
Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. Or are we dealing
with migration sufficiently describable existentially as nationality
migration? All these aspects are worthy of study.<br>
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The clash of individual space that is the lot of man becomes a
powerful clash of cultural space through migration. However, when a
flow of migrants can be described in geopolitical and historical
terms, cultural incomprehension, and intercultural coercion and bias
will configure much of the individual experience.<br>
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We are planning to publish an anthology, which will help give voice to
these modern inter-cultural experiences, and are asking individuals of
Asian origin with analytical ability, and who have lived continuously
in Europe, to discuss aspects of their culturally confusing
situation.<br>
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If you are interested, please write an abstract of 100-150 words to us
before November 30th, 2003. If we consider your project suitable, you
should be willing to hand in the completed article (not longer than 20
A4 pages) by the end of March 2004.<br>
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Yours Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Dr Ooi Kee Beng (keebengooi@yahoo.se)<br>
Tobias Hübinette, Ph.D Candidate (tobias@orient.su.se)<br>
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<b>STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY</b></font></div>
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