Translation and Migration

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Series Information......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
1 Migration, mobility, and culture......Page 14
Migration, mobility, and landscape......Page 16
Departures......Page 19
Permanent displacement......Page 24
Arrivals, multiculturalism, and critique......Page 29
Lens 1: Fluidity, hybridity, identity......Page 31
Lens 2: Reconfiguring ‘us’ and ‘them’......Page 35
Lens 3: Translation and hospitality – Khan and Kant speak......Page 40
Translation and the goal of mutual understanding......Page 44
Notes......Page 47
References......Page 48
Shifting promises......Page 52
Sassamon’s dilemma......Page 56
Ellis Island and the uncertain presence of hospitality......Page 58
Angel Island and the certain absence of hospitality......Page 63
The constraints of role......Page 70
Translation as heresy......Page 72
Words undressed......Page 75
References......Page 79
3 Translation and labor migrants......Page 82
Migration and human security......Page 84
Translation and globalization......Page 86
Overseas contract laborers......Page 89
Male contract laborers......Page 91
Labor trafficking......Page 95
Internal migrants: Female factory workers in China......Page 98
Female domestic workers: From submission to empowerment......Page 102
Overseas domestic workers as activists......Page 105
Freeing up the space......Page 107
Sex workers, migration, and translation......Page 109
Empower – Thailand......Page 110
Bad girls news......Page 113
Notes......Page 117
References......Page 118
4 Translating the landscape......Page 121
Marks on the land......Page 122
Irish navvies in Britain......Page 124
Irish ‘Paddies’ in the United States......Page 126
Chinese ‘Celestials’ and the building of the railroads in the United States......Page 132
Visibility re-envisioned......Page 134
Translating the migrant self into the landscape......Page 143
From Sri Lanka to Australia......Page 145
From the Levant to ‘Little Syria’ to the ‘real’ America......Page 148
Invisible/visible specters......Page 153
Notes......Page 156
References......Page 159
5 Signs of transnationalism from above and below......Page 162
The taskscapes of Koreatown, LA......Page 169
Buenos días – Ahn-nyung-hah-seh-yo – Good morning......Page 178
The upside downside of transnationalism......Page 179
Yuhaksaeng and iminja in Toronto, Canada......Page 182
Notes......Page 186
References......Page 187
6 Constructing and contesting young migrant identities......Page 189
Managing migrant identities......Page 193
Essentializing migrants......Page 194
Worlds in words......Page 198
Restricted spaces of identity......Page 203
Negotiating inter-ethnic identities......Page 207
What’s fresh off the boat?......Page 211
Constructing cosmopolitanism from below......Page 216
References......Page 218
Index......Page 221