Asian Student Migrations and Transformative Outcomes
Immigrant Appreciation Day - Closing Keynote
Location
Information Technology/Engineering : 104
Date & Time
May 1, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Description
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Asian Student Migrations and the Transformative Outcomes of Higher Education Institutions
Madeline Hsu, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Global Migration Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Asian student migrations reveal most clearly the stark contradictions
between the restrictive and selective priorities of immigration
regulation. Over the past two centuries of intensification both of
globalization and nation-state regulation of migration, the continued
privileging of Asian student mobilities, employment, and settlements
underscore that this category of migrants is multilaterally regarded as
beneficial and meriting legal protections and support. Education and its
pursuit produce persons with enhanced capacities for cross-cultural
exchanges and negotiations and certified enhanced skills and expertise,
whose circulations bolster international relationships and spread
influence among societies partnered through student exchanges. For
these reasons, Asian educational migrants constitute revealing
exceptions to the late nineteenth-century hardening of border security
regimes around the world which prioritized racial difference and
national origins for exclusion and greater restriction, particularly
targeting Asian persons. Abundant scholarship has explored the
international emergence of ideologies and institutions for immigration
restriction constructed with the goals of segregating Asians. Equally
foundational, however, has been the parallel and ongoing recruitment of
Asian students as agents who may foster international influence but also
for their eventual employment and resettlement as valued knowledge
workers. Status as educational migrants contravened the racialization
of Asians as inassimilable, inferior others. Asian student migrations
thus underscore the necessity of exploring migration and migration
regulation along a fuller spectrum, not just of restriction of
racialized undesirables, but also of recruitment of valued knowledge
migrants who enjoy encouragement and legal protections and access to
legal migration.
Biography: Madeline Hsu is the director of the center and professor of history and Affiliate Faculty with the Asian American Studies Program. Her research interests include migration studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and immigration, Chinese, and American history. She has three books: Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford University Press, 2000), The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2015), and Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Biography: Madeline Hsu is the director of the center and professor of history and Affiliate Faculty with the Asian American Studies Program. Her research interests include migration studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and immigration, Chinese, and American history. She has three books: Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford University Press, 2000), The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2015), and Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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