Memories of a Future Home Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama

"Memories of a Future Home is a masterful ethnography, focusing specifically on the different groups of Chinese in Panama and their ongoing negotiations regarding identity, nationality, and home. Proposing that these must be contextualized both in terms of the complexities of Panamanian politics and the global status of the country of origin, Siu makes a highly original contribution that illuminates the dynamics of cultural citizenship among 'new' and 'old' Asian immigrant populations in the Americas, as a whole."Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, University of California, Riverside "Lok Siu's investigation of the Chinese in Panama is a unique entry in the ongoing investigation of the broader, globally significant processes of migration. This work illuminates some of the major conceptual debates in contemporary scholarship. The author's theoretically informed thick description makes this manuscript sing."Ien Ang, University of Western SydneySiu, Lok C. D. is the author of 'Memories of a Future Home Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama', published 2007 under ISBN 9780804758468 and ISBN 0804758468.