Ashwiwŏ Hada-Feeling the Want of Something More

As a fledgling anthropologist, I went into the "field" in 2002 with guidebooks, hopes, and memories of coursework that I hoped would help me along my path to doing fieldwork with Amerasians in South Korea. The conception of "Amerasian" as a politically termed and charged identity was coined by Pearl S. Buck, the famous novelist who won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel Prize in Literature. In the 1980s it became a legal definition with the passage of Public Law 97-359,1 also known as the Amerasian Act of 1982, which gave certain mixed Asians born in Asia of "American" paternal descent the ability to immigrate to the United States. With the substantial size of the United States military presence in Asia, which can be dated back as far as the late 1880s with the annexation of the Philippines, there are a large number of "Amerasian" populations throughout Asia, but only a few have the ability to be "almost" American, let alone "almost" Korean or otherwise

Ancient history · Feeling · Political science · Sociology · History · Japanese History and Culture · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy

• Thinking as a Moral Act

  Clifford Geertz•The Antioch Review•1968

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• The Amerasian Problem

  Open Access•Sue-Je Lee Gage, Sue‐je Lee Gage•International Relations•2007

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