DEI
Robert Bonner
San Francisco State U., United States
Alexander Lewis
UTSA, United States
Odilia Yim
U. of Toronto
Duoc Nguyen
Teachers College, Columbia U., United States
Yu-Shan Hsu
John Molson School of Business, Concordia U., Canada
Kyoung-Hee Yu
U. of Technology, Sydney, Australia
The conversation surrounding Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) within Western society carries a distinctive complexity. AAPIs are frequently portrayed as "model minorities," which has led to their exclusion from numerous discussions about equity. The apparent neglect of AAPI communities' experiences in both organizations and society underscores the imperative for us to address this issue. In this symposium, we present four papers associated with the special issue of American Behavioral Scientist, with the aim of addressing the lack of discussion surrounding the AAPI experiences in Western workplaces and society. The first paper unpacks the complexity in how AAPI populations—specifically the Chinese diaspora in Canada—choose to label themselves with respect to their ethnic identities. The second paper examines instances where AAPI employees are unable to walk away from microaggressions and instead must maintain working relationships with the aggressors, identifying two forms of microaggressions that are sustained in these relationships. The third paper examines the differential effects of the work-life balance tradeoff for AAPI and White employees, finding that AAPI employees often face greater conflict between work and family. The final paper introduces the idea of precarious multiculturalism to motivate a more substantive approach to inclusion, one which engages with social structure to engender system transformation towards more stable forms of multiculturalism. Collectively, these papers offer an interdisciplinary examination of the complexities of AAPI experiences in the Western context.
Author: Odilia Yim – U. of Toronto
Author: Duoc Van Nguyen – Teachers College, Columbia U.
Author: Caryn J. Block – Teachers College, Columbia U.
Author: Jennifer Kim – Tufts School of Medicine, Center for the Study of Drug Development
Author: Hong Yu – Teachers College, Columbia U.
Author: Yu-Shan Hsu – John Molson School of Business, Concordia U.
Author: Mihaela Dimitrova – WU Vienna
Author: Margaret A. Shaffer – U. of Oklahoma
Author: Gloria J. Miller – Austin Peay State U.
Author: Kyoung-Hee Yu – U. of Technology, Sydney
Author: Helena Liu – Bond U.
Author: Christopher Wright – U. of Sydney Business School