Chicano Transnation

Abstract

In February 2008, during the Chinese New Year, when most Chinese travel back to their families for the celebration, more than one million Chinese migrant workers were stranded by snowstorms. Waiting for days at train stations for the possibility of a rare train to their home village, many of them did not move from the queue to eat or relieve themselves. This number of people is more than the populations of a third of the member states of the United Nations. But they were migrants and they were inside their country. They were, to all intents and purposes, a diaspora. They were away from home, within the nation. In India, more than double this number of people are on the move at any one time on religious pilgrimages. Clearly these two nations may force us to rethink the concept of nation as an imagined community in any but the most iconic sense. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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