Audio and photo extracts from “Asian Minorities in Europe and in North America: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Memories, Representation and Recognition”
This article presents a summary of the outcomes of the Asian activism panels from the symposium “Asian Minorities in Europe and in North America. A Transatlantic Dialogue on Memories, Representation and Recognition”.
- Asian activism in France
- Asian activism in Europe
- Asian activism in North America
- Summary in pictures
Audio extracts have been realized with the support of JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP23H00059
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Nara KEO KOSAL & Pascal MOUGIN, Du Mékong à la Marne “There is a new city called Marne-la-Vallée where there is the biggest Asian community in France. The biggest community in France is not anymore in the 13th district of Paris since many years.” |
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Laura POK, Pouma’khmer “We want to connect with the Cambodia from the past, but also with the Cambodia from the present.” |
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Grace LY, Ça reste entre nous et Kiffe ta race “One of my favorite area of work is food. Food will bring people together. Food is a very good example on how we can have our heritage and still be very modern about it. Food has travelled, has known a lot of influences.” |
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Thomas CAI, Association des Jeunes Chinois de France “For us as younger generations from Chinese migration, we did not have an association, somewhere to express ourselves, to talk about different topics that are related to us as French-Chinese, as people between two cultures, between two totally different identities.” |
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Christine HUYNH & Arnaud HUYNH, Les Jeunes Teochew de France “The topic of memory and history is a very important topic to us because a few of us know about what happened in our family and about the past. It is very important to know about the past to be able to transmit the history to the next generation.” |
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Julie HAMAÏDE, Koï “I wanted to do something bigger, I wanted to do something professional. I did not want the Asian diaspora and communities in France having a blog, it’s good, but I wanted something bigger that would look like Vogue or Vanity Fair – I understand it’s not Vogue or Vanity Fair – but I wanted something special!… This is how I started.” |
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Camille-Maya JAYANTHI, Talk Tabou Media “We want to show and to other communities how interesting our culture is and how underrated it is, and also underrepresented.” |
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Yamouna NALLATAMBY, Slash Asian “(This photography exhibition) was a project led by and for Asian people in the sense that it was not only Asian models but it was also behind the cameras, Asians filmmakers and photographers. It is fully a project led by Asian women and queer people. The idea behind was to show the diversity in bodies and races… We wanted to go far from the male and the White gaze.” |
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Kim HUYNH & Maï NGUYEN, Asiattitudes “The goal was to give voice to Asian French people so that they can share their own experiences about what it’s like being Asian in France, because being Asian is more than an ethnicity, it’s a whole identity, a history, a culture, even a language.” |
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Jee-Un KIM & Sun-Ju CHOI, Korientation, Germany “We wanted to be a learning space. It is very important to be able to show our vulnerability and to acknowledge our lack of knowledge or ignorance not only for us but also in the history of other communities. And only so we can guarantee the interest in solidarities, to be kept alive.” |
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Mélanie CAO, Asiofeminism Now! Belgium “I wrote my master thesis about Asiofeminism activism in the USA because… I was really looking for an history, I was really interested in the Black and Asian solidarities and the radical history we don’t have in Belgium. I thought this was something really interesting, that could inspire us in Belgium.” |
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Maud Jing Qin & Amy, Asian Raisins, the Netherlands “We are really trying to reach all kind of East and South-East Asian to learn and heal together.” |
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Paloma CHEN, Red de Diáspora China, Spain “We wanted this to be a safe space, a support network where our voices could be heard and understood in collective.” |
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Rémy CHHEM & Marie-Eve SAMSON, Super Boat People, Canada “What we noticed is the way people transmit stories within families. It’s not necessarily discursively. Stories are used to transmit life lessons or it can also be transmitted via cultural practices so we really insisted on what we have called non-discursive activities. For example, we have a production of Asian veggies and fine herbs… so you know, Asian and non-Asian folks can learn about thai chili, about lemon grass. This is really benign and small but it is actually a very nice way for connecting with people and sharing stories on vegetables but also on families and communities.” |
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Russell JEUNG, Stop AAPI Hate US “Racism is deeply rooted in the narrative, in the discourses, so we had to change the narrative. That’s our theory of change and since then, we’ve been working on all those areas to change. If you think about building movement, if you think about data, if you think about change, it’s all about changing hearts and minds. It’s a big task to change heart and minds.” |
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
daphnenguyen (13 février 2024). Audio and photo extracts from “Asian Minorities in Europe and in North America: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Memories, Representation and Recognition” PolAsie. Consulté le 9 septembre 2026 à l’adresse https://polasie.hypotheses.org/1719
