Fachschaftsinitiative: Anti-Rassismus Vortrag

Dr. Kien Nghi Ha on the lecture: The history of anti-Asian racism is 
closely interwoven with anti-Chinese discourses and practices. 
Especially the US-American approach to Asian immigration was strongly 
determined by colonial and racist premises and images. Using the 
example of the transpacific region, I would like to discuss how 
anti-Asian racism was systematically institutionalized. While focusing 
on the United States for reasons of space, I will also briefly discuss 
anti-Asian migration policies in Canada and the White Australia 
Policy. For a more comprehensive and diversified understanding of 
contemporary racism in Western immigration societies, the historical 
reappraisal of anti-Asian migration policies plays an important role. 
The U.S. case demonstrates how fundamental institutionalized exclusion 
of Asian presences—among other forms of oppression—is to the systemic 
production of Whiteness in racist societies. 


On the lecturer: Kien Nghi Ha holds a doctorate in cultural and 
political sciences and teaches Asian German Studies and Asian 
Diasporic Studies as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for 
Asian Studies of the University of Tübingen. As a publicist and 
curator, he also works on postcolonial criticism, racism, and 
migration. Most recently, the anthology Asiatische Deutsche Extended. 
Vietnamesische Diaspora and Beyond (2021) was published as an expanded 
new edition. His monograph Unrein und vermischt. Postkoloniale 
Grenzgänge durch die Kulturgeschichte der Hybridität und der 
kolonialen „Rassenbastarde (2010/2015) was awarded the 2011 Augsburg 
Science Prize for Intercultural Studies. Other books include 
Ethnizität und Migration Reloaded. Identität, Differenz und Hybridität 
im postkolonialen Diskurs (1999/2004), Hype um Hybridität (2005/2015), 
re/visionen. Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf 
Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und Widerstand in Deutschland (Co-Hg., 
2007/2015/2021).