Re-Exploring Gender in Diasporic Asian Women Narratives

This paper focuses on the cultural variations in the signification of intersectional-gender, sexuation, and intersectional-gender identity. It highlights the multiple frontiers that these representations create among different societies, and discusses the experiences of diasporic Asian-American women who have found themselves at the crossroads of diverse, and sometimes contradictory, gendered, and sexualized norms. The goal of this paper is to express that because the degree and type of rights to which migrants have access vary considerably between nations—the process of integration into a foreign society requires migrants to rethink, sometimes from scratch, their gender identities and societal opportunities. In this way, migrant women accede, often unwittingly, to a new life. They are reborn into a new intersectional-gender-identity and must reinvent themselves to adapt to it. To address such identity, in-transit in the diaspora, the study introduces and adopts the term diasgender. The study offers the coined term Diasgender to negotiate the inherently intersectional concept which conceives gender makes up of several interacting socio-phyco-political factors. The study arrived at inseparability of intersectional trio or intersectional axis, as the frequency of all dimensions can be impacted by feminine vulnerability. The use of intersectionality coined concepts of gender diasgender and intersecting stereodominimages proved to impede the access of introduced diasporic women to the perfect identity, and consequently, their non-diasporic independence, contributing to the maintenance of these women at the base of socioeconomic pyramid.

کلیدواژه ها:

Controlling Images ، Diasgender ، Intersectionality ، Intersectional-gender ، Intersecting stereodominimages