Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States [and Comments and Reply]

Cultural citizenship is examined as a process of subjectification through ethnographic analysis of the citizenship-making experiences of two Asian immigrant groups in the US from different class backgrounds: poor Cambodian refugees & affluent Chinese cosmopolitans. Analysis reveals that institution practices differentiate between Asian immigrants on the basis of gender, position within racial hierarchies, class, & consumption; & immigrants must daily negotiate lines of difference in state & civil society. Comments are offered by Virginia R. Dominguez, Jonathan Friedman, Nina Glick Schiller, Verena Stolcke, David Y. H. Wu, & Hu Ying. In her Reply, Ong responds to each of the commentators, emphasizing issues of imputation of racializing processes, the comparative anthropology of racism, the role of nationalism in citizen making, & empowerment of Asian immigrant groups. 100 References. Adapted from the source document.