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Beyond Belonging
East and Southeast Asian Presence, Identity and Activism in the UK

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120 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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How do we organise through crisis? How do we move past anti-racism work that operates in isolation among different communities, towards sustainable action and solidarity?

This exciting and ground-breaking work from grassroots organisers, David Kam, Amy Phung and Mai-Anh Vu Peterson, is dedicated to the stories and experiences of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities living in the UK today. Using qualitative methods, such as interviews, anecdotes and existing research, this book provides a critical examination of different aspects of ESEA presence in Britain, including identity, migration, activism and the pitfalls of representation. Through an accessible and grounded approach, this book sheds light on how issues of racism, capitalist structures and the challenges of organising have impeded community-building efforts. It aims to join together the dots across different ESEA communities, past, present and future, in order to work towards a UK-specific discourse that brings ESEA people into a wider discussion on solidarity.

 
Introduction
 
Chapter 1: ESEA people in the UK: a complex narrative
 
Chapter 2: Identity in motion
 
Chapter 3: Migration: how we came to be
 
Chapter 4: Representation and the illusion of progress
 
Chapter 5: Multiculturalism and mixed ESEA experiences
 
Chapter 6: Appropriation, exploitation and work
 
Chapter 7: Queering the script
 
Chapter 8: Organizing through crisis

David Kam

David Kam is a London-based Malaysian movement artist, speaker, researcher, facilitator and founder of kindredpacket. To him, movement -  through a queering lens - can be a practice of resistance, relation, and reimagining. He develops and shares embodied practices of joy, care and freedom, moving communities towards reclaiming agency, celebrating expression and fostering collective wellbeing.    More About Author

Mei Feng

Mei is a writer, designer, speaker, community advocate and co-founder of besea.n, Britain’s East and South East Asian Network. Informed through years of cross-community solidarity building and active bystander workshop facilitation, she aims to develop her practices for transformation through art, using creativity as means to reimagine and embody new futures. More About Author

Mai-Anh Vu Peterson