• Jane Komori, ‘“Worried Over This Boat”: Archives of Asian Settler Colonial Critique’, Amerasia Journal, 2025

Abstract: This article examines the history of racialized labor in pre-World War II primary resource industries along British Columbia’s Fraser River. I argue that settler colonial policies and practices that restricted the activities of Indigenous peoples and Asian Canadians – while often meant to divide them – were productive of dynamic relationships and solidarities. At the same time, I articulate a historiographical method for Asian settler colonial critique that brings together the wealth of records of Asian immigrant and Indigenous relationships.

• r. Shizuko Hayashi-Simpliciano, Sachi Edwards, ‘De-Imperializing Through Moshiri: An Ainu in Diaspora Framework for Addressing Internalized Empire and Japanese American Apathy’, Amerasia Journal, 2025

Abstract: In this paper we introduce the Moshiri Model, a framework to guide the process of de-imperialization that is rooted in Ainu in Diaspora spirituality and experience. Using reconstructed dialogues as a storytelling method, we illustrate what it can look like to engage in de-imperializing work within ourselves and our communities. Doing so requires confronting how internalized Japanese imperialism, Christian supremacy, and Zionism (and their historical interconnections) have shaped, and continue to shape, Asian settler colonialism. Ultimately, the de-imperialization work we describe aims to guide critical reflection about our individual and collective relationships with and responsibilities toward Indigenous communities.

• Tabitha Espina,Kristin Oberiano, Josephine Ong, ‘Deconstructing Asian Settler Colonialism and the American Dream in Guåhan/Guam and Other Sites of U.S. Empire’, Amerasia Journal, 2025

Abstract: This is a conversation between several co-founders of Filipinos for Guåhan to discuss academic and community work on the specific articulations that Filpino colonial setter colonialism plays in Guåhan/Guam. We consider the ways that Asian settler colonialism enables us to deconstruct dehumanizing social, political, epistemic, and linguistic hierarchies and instead build in and through inafa’maolek as a value and practice.

• Ryan Buyco, ‘Filipinx Reflections on Travel Writing and Asian Settler Colonial Critique in Okinawa’, Amerasia Journal, 2025

Abstract: This essay is a reflection on my ongoing book project, Island Under the Sun: Filipino American Detours in Okinawa, which is a travelogue informed by Asian settler colonial critique. This project considers how histories of Japanese and American colonialisms shape the relationship that Filipinos have to this place, especially given how the U.S. bases have historically brought, and continue to bring, Filipinos to these islands. In this essay, I suggest that the genre of travel writing can be used in decolonial ways, to express forms of relationality that disrupt the tourist image of Okinawa as “Japan’s Hawai’i.

• Mona Bhan, Hafsa Kanjwal, Goldie Osuri, Beenash Jafri, Zunaira Shakur, ‘Critical Kashmir Studies and Asian Settler Colonial Critique: A Conversation’, Amerasia Journal, 2025

Abstract: In this conversation, three scholars of Critical Kashmir Studies – Mona Bhan, Hafsa Kanjwal, and Goldie Osuri – reflect on how Asian settler colonial critique might usefully be mobilized toward understanding the Indian occupation of Kashmir. Asian settler colonial critique not only disrupts India’s postcolonial narrative, but also shifts the conversation on Kashmir away from discourses of geopolitical security or bi-lateral relations between India and Pakistan.

• Nabilah Husna Binte Abdul Rahman, Mengzhu Fu, ‘Spiraling In and Out: A Conversation on Decolonial Asian and Indigenous Solidarity from Aotearoa and So-Called Canada to Asia’, Amerasisa Journal, 2025

Abstract: As Indigenous resurgence and resistance globally make visible the violence of colonization, the growth of Asian diasporic solidarity introduces new possibilities and challenges. Literature examining Asian-Indigenous solidarities in settler colonial states primarily focuses on so-called North America. This conversation between organizers Nabilah Husna Abdul Rahman and Mengzhu Fu spirals from Aotearoa-based practices of decolonial solidarity outwards to Singapore, Canada-occupied Indigenous lands, and beyond. They explore place-based practices of solidarity, pedagogies, and their potential connections to international Indigenous communities. Offering practical strategies, from “small” to “big,” they reaffirm the centrality of the protection of Indigenous land and waters in solidarity efforts.

• Nishant Upadhyay, ‘Fraught Solidarities: Diasporic Hindutva and Claims to Indigeneity’, Amerasisa Journal, 2025

Abstract: In recent years, diasporic hindu right has mobilized discourses of indigeneity to forge solidarities with Indigenous peoples across varying white settler colonial contexts of the U.S, Hawaiʻi, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. These solidarities are not decolonial but are colonial and casted manifestations of hindu nationalism. Rooted in brahminical supremacy, these solidarities are not only fraudulent but also disavow the lives and struggles of Indigenous peoples globally. These solidarities demonstrate how the hindu right works in insidious ways in the disguise of multiculturalism and liberal anti-racism to co-opt and manipulate anti-colonial and decolonial agendas.

• Leah M. Kuragano, ‘Four Lessons from Winnipeg on Asian Settler “Belonging”’, Amerasia Journal, 2025

Abstract: This essay contemplates my (re)settlement to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the form of a personal narrative, mapped out through four lessons in border-crossing, safety, orientation, and unlandedness. Each lesson reflects on the fraught complexities of “belonging” for Asian settlers as well as the liberatory potential of a relationship to place for Asian settlers that takes sacred connection, a love for community, and devotion to land as its lodestar.