Introduction
Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis is filled with a variety of cuisines, as it is called ‘Eat Street’. It is filled with a variety of migrants as well; a majority of whom are from Southeast Asia. Why are there so many migrants from Southeast Asia today? Why are there so many restaurants on Nicollet Avenue? To answer these questions, it is necessary to examine both the history of the migrants and the process of the formulation of Nicollet Avenue.
In this paper, the migration history of Southeast Asian migrants and the difficulties they are experiencing are introduced first. In this process, it will be shown that migration movement is the combination of economic, political and ideological factors. Based on that, the latter half of the paper will try to find how Nicollet Avenue has been shaped and how it sustains its sense of place, especially from the perspectives of the power geometry. Not only geographical, but also some concepts from other disciplines such as sociology will be drawn here. Throughout the paper, it will be proposed that the landscape of Nicollet Avenue has been formed under the power geometry on migrants, influenced by capitalism and orientalism.
Brief History of Southeast Asian Migrants – Why did they come to the Twin Cities?
This chapter introduces why Southeast Asian migrants came to be one of the biggest migrant group in the Twin Cities, consulting the concepts of ‘push and pull factors.’
According to The League of Women Voters (2002), the history of Southeast Asian migrants as refugees originates in the 1970s, when communism defeated capitalism in Indochina Peninsula. The fierceness of the Vietnam War forced its citizens to escape from their home country on the boat, while the people called ‘Hmong’, ...
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