Homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and Hmong American Vidoe

Global fatigue: Transnational markets, linguistic capital, and Korean‐American male English teachers in South Korea1

“…The experiences of Korean‐American male English teachers in Seoul thus expand and complicate notions of migration (Glick Schiller, Basch and Blanc‐Szanton 1992), especially return migration (Manalansan forthcoming; Schein 2004; Tsuda 2003). Due to the extraordinary pace of economic, political, social and demographic change around the world, international and intra‐regional migratory flows have grown rapidly (Appadurai 1996; Lorente et al 2004).…”

Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia

“…Equally important, and perhaps more fundamental to our conception of mediated erotics, media industries serve the market by promoting the ideological construct of "freedom" (Harvey 2005) and of the individuated-almost asocial-consumer, intoxicated by choice and enamored of ever-newer commodities. And as Schein (2008) has argued for Hmong Americans, for instance, the pursuit of media entrepreneurship is entirely consonant with the retrenchment of social welfare indexical of neoliberal shifts in both the U.S. and Chinese economies.…”

“…Erotics may be conjured not only by the boundary-marking sketched above, but also by the crossing of boundaries. One example is media-saturated nostalgia touring among members of diasporic communities, inspired by imaginaries of homelands generated out of the interplay of media and memory (Marks 2000;Naficy 1993;Schein 2002). In the case of the Hmong diaspora, where homeland place-making is entangled with the production of mediated sexualities, "transnational erotics remix sex and space, refashioning the most intimate of interiorities.…”

“…Finally, to employ the language of scale, it is important to highlight that many of the media examined in this volume are sited at both the transnational and the subnational scales, with the nation sometimes becoming a relatively weaker frame for production and reception (see also Appadurai 1996 and Appadurai and Breckenridge 1988). The transmissive promiscuity of media has allowed such "scale jumping" (Smith 1992) to become a commonplace, such that subgroups, minoritized groups, and diasporic groups within nation-spaces might bypass the national scale to participate in transnational media circuits, and sometimes, as Schein has suggested, deploying media texts to imagine cosmopolitanism against the grain of national exclusions (Schein 1999a; see also Sun 2006 andM. M. Yang 1997).…”

“…5. See, for instance, Larkin (2000) and Schein (2002); see also Ginsburg, Abu-Lughod, and Larkin (2002, 3). 6.…”