Beyond Belonging

East and Southeast Asian Presence, Identity and Activism in the UK
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5296-7320-3
Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 125 mm x 176 mm

Reihe: Social Science for Social Justice

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phung, Amy

Kam, David

Peterson, Mai-Anh

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Phung, Amy
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.

Kam, David
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.