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Asian settler colonisers: Hana Maruyama, ‘Asian Diasporas and US Settler Colonialism’, in Maddalena Marinari (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies, OUP, 2026

15Apr26

Abstract: Given the diversity of Asian diasporas, these communities hold varied and complex roles in and experiences of US settler colonialism, settler militarism, and racial capitalism. Many Asian diasporas came to this country as removable and excludable “alien” labor or as refugees, each with their own colonial and imperial relationships with Europe, the United States, and other Asian countries. With their labor frequently exploited in the service of US settler colonialism and racial capitalism, they and their descendants have a tenuous place within these structures and have at times fought for inclusion in ways that bolster rather than challenge the colonial and racist underpinnings of these systems. Key historical moments and themes connecting Asian diasporas and Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, ordered roughly chronologically include: early Asian and Indigenous encounters and Asian “firsting” narratives; how Asian immigrant labor and immigration exclusion policies naturalized white settler sovereignty; settler carceral systems and state narratives of redemption; environmental and militarized colonialisms from the American Southwest to the Pacific.


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