Educating From Scratch

by | Sep 1, 2024

  How might the absence of appropriate resources be a barrier to migration? How do migrants enact futurism in difficult situations, and with what consequences? Often, migrants relocate because of acute disruption: war, disaster, or persecution. Slower forms of...

Places, Words, Stories

by | Aug 31, 2024

  Migration and its disruptions define our experiences of home—and probably yours, too. It shapes a great deal of our personal and professional attentions. We were both born in D.C., extensions of the circuitous migrations of our respective families. We grew up...

Finding a Second Jia (Home)

by | Aug 31, 2024

So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed                        床前明月光 chuáng qián míng yuè guāng Could there have been a frost already                                       疑是地上霜 yí shì dì shàng shuāng Lifting my head to look / I found that it was moonlight           ...

Hearing Home Through a Podcast of Asian American Tales

by | Aug 31, 2024

As folklorists and colleagues working inside and beyond academia, we are dedicated to building the field of Asian American folklore. In late 2021, we launched “Yellow and Brown Tales: Asian American Folklife Today,” a podcast that highlights the...

Manzanar, Diverted

by | Aug 30, 2024

At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, the site of Manzanar, the World War II concentration camp, is the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” Intergenerational women from Native American, Japanese American, and...