Where Are You From? Voices In Transition

Where are you from? Voices in Transition records the diverse recollections and reflections of fourteen Asian Australian women about the question 'where are you from?' posed to them and assumptions about their identity made by different people at different times, locations and contexts. The book examines why in the globalised world we live in today, it is not always possible to label or describe a person as having one specific cultural or national identity as they are expected to do by those asking the question. '... The question, 'where are you from?' can serve a function of demanding an explanation from minority groups about how they belong to a particular community, and whether they even have right to do so. A person who is assumed to belong to the dominant group is seldom asked this question.