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Essay on Immigration

ESSAY ON IMMIGRATION: PARADOXICAL IDENTITIES

Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama [1885-1951] sailed to San Francisco at the age of nineteen, where there was a growing community of Japanese immigrants. It was a period of intense discrimination and agitation against Asian, and particularly Japanese immigrants. In 1937, Kiyama returned temporarily to his homeland but he was unable to return due to the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan. He was a great cartoonist, thus he used his talent to represent his immigrant experience in fifty-two episodes. A Manga North American Immigrant History, also known as The Four Immigrants Manga [1931] depicts the lives of Kiyama and three friends in San ...

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belong to more than one world, I am a Palestinian Arab and I am also an American.” This quote is from Said’s Identity, authority and freedom [1991], which immediately shows how complex his own identity was and how he sought to find his righteous place in the globalised world. He felt like “an exile from his homeland” and he located himself in an interstitial place. Said wants to claim his Palestinian identity, but he also belongs to the Western world, based in New York. The title is thus the main conceit that runs through the book. Ashcroft and Ahluwalia found the chosen topics of Said’s academic work in the paradoxes of his own identity in their book on Edward Said. In several literary works, Said tries to force the Western world to recognize the link between its own metropolitan culture and the non-Western world. He wants the West to face up the historical facts and the continuing implications of their imperial past, moreover, he wants the West to do justice to the non-Western ...

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one million Arab Jews to immigrate because of its failure to bring enough Jews after the Holocaust. This led to the de-Arabizing of Jews. In Orientalism appears also a paradox of attraction and recoil, which is more related to Europe: Ireland serves as Britain’s Orient, as its conscious that reminds it that it was ultimately and irrevocably a stranger to itself and that its self-identity was constructed upon screening of its forgotten ‘other’. Ireland is Britain’s first, last and most intimate other, since it was Catholic (Non-Protestant), a colony and an ally of France. This reminds us ultimately of Freud or what he called the ‘uncanny’: the return of the familiar as unfamiliar or a ...

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