Racism, Risk, and Supply: U.S. Policies Toward COVID-19 and Asia, and Current and Future Impacts on Asian Americans

Karen J. Leong; Wei Li; Angela Chia-Chen Chen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-94350-9_73

Racism, Risk, and Supply: U.S. Policies Toward COVID-19 and Asia, and Current and Future Impacts on Asian Americans

Karen J. Leong, Wei Li, Angela Chia-Chen Chen

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COVID-19 illuminates the contradictions of U.S. relations with Asia economically, culturally, and socially in relation to Asian immigrant labor, goods and manufacturing, and with Asian Americans. We explore the importance of Asia as a supplier of labor and goods to the U.S. health system in order to analyze how the U.S. navigates its interdependence with Asia while demonizing Asians/Americans and attempting to protect its borders metaphorically and materially. We analyze how Asian American nurses are fighting the battle against the pandemic on the frontlines while also fighting the stereotypes and stigma that some Americans may have against them because they associate Asian Americans with the spread of COVID-19.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 1
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	1325-1340
Number of pages	16
Volume	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030943509
ISBN (Print)	9783030943493
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94350-9_73
State	Published - Jan 1 2022

Keywords

Anti-Asian racism
Asian American
Health care professional
Nurse
PPE

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences
General Medicine

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