ABSTRACT This essay contemplates my (re)settlement to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the form of a personal narrative, mapped out through four lessons in border-crossing, safety, orientation, and unlandedness. Each lesson reflects on the fraught complexities of “belonging” for Asian settlers as well as the liberatory potential of a relationship to place for Asian settlers that takes sacred connection, a love for community, and devotion to land as its lodestar.

ABSTRACT In this conversation, three scholars of Critical Kashmir Studies – Mona Bhan, Hafsa Kanjwal, and Goldie Osuri – reflect on how Asian settler colonial critique might usefully be mobilized toward understanding the Indian occupation of Kashmir. Asian settler colonial critique not only disrupts India’s postcolonial narrative, but also shifts the conversation on Kashmir away from discourses of geopolitical security or bi-lateral relations between India and Pakistan.

ABSTRACT In this special issue introduction, co-editors Katherine Achacoso, Josephine Faith Ong, Beenash Jafri, and Candace Fujikane consider the multiple place-based genealogies of Asian settler colonial critique, amplifying its transnational, place-based dimensions while also identifying new directions for study. Rather than laying claim to Asian settler colonialism as a field ripe for institutional reproduction, they name Asian settler colonial analytics as an assemblage of multiple approaches, methods and points of departure, signaling their investments in forging ethical relationships and connections with Indigenous peoples, communities, and struggles inside and outside the university.

ABSTRACT This essay is a reflection on my ongoing book project, Island Under the Sun: Filipino American Detours in Okinawa, which is a travelogue informed by Asian settler colonial critique. This project considers how histories of Japanese and American colonialisms shape the relationship that Filipinos have to this place, especially given how the U.S. bases have historically brought, and continue to bring, Filipinos to these islands. In this essay, I suggest that the genre of travel writing can be used in decolonial ways, to express forms of relationality that disrupt the tourist image of Okinawa as “Japan’s Hawai‘i

ABSTRACT This is a conversation between several co-founders of Filipinos for Guåhan to discuss academic and community work on the specific articulations that Filpino colonial setter colonialism plays in Guåhan/Guam. We consider the ways that Asian settler colonialism enables us to deconstruct dehumanizing social, political, epistemic, and linguistic hierarchies and instead build in and through inafa’maolek as a value and practice.

ABSTRACT This article considers the kinds of aesthetic practices Indigenous and diasporic subjects deploy to represent complex genealogies within Alejandro Yoshizawa’s 2016 documentary All Our Father’s Relations. I argue that the documentary juxtaposes diverse expressive forms in order to convey the contradictions and possibilities of Indigenous and Asian relationality, and decolonization and racial justice. The film dwells with the ambivalent affects emerging from mixed lineages through an aesthetics of visual and sonic juxtaposition, which I call “mixed epistemology.” I examine how All Our Father’s Relations employs a mixed epistemology to stage multiple itineraries of “return” and decolonial affiliation across different geographies.

ABSTRACT This roundtable, recorded in June 2025, highlights emerging scholarship on inter/nationalist solidarities with Palestine. It brings together emerging scholars in the fields of Indigenous studies, Asian American studies, and Pacific studies to document longer intellectual and activist genealogies of solidarity with and between Oceania, Asian/American, and the Palestinian diaspora. At the same time, this panel examines the larger inter/nationalist politics of settler institutions (i.e., the UN) and the collusions between North American and Israeli states to unpack the ongoing need to continue to articulate a transnational critique and analysis in the ongoing fight against genocide in Palestine.

ABSTRACT This roundtable documents emerging conversations on Indigenous politics and settler colonialism in Asia. It brings together a diverse group of emerging diasporic/Indigenous scholars from the Cordilleras, Surigao, Okinawa, and the Champa Kingdom to examine contemporary issues in Indigenous politics in Asia and their implications for broader conversations on Asian/American Studies and Global Indigenous Studies. This roundtable asks: how might the place-based and regional specificity of Indigenous politics in Asia expand global conversations on Indigenous movements for self-determination and decolonization? How might settler colonialism in Asia inform more transnational and global theorizations of Asian settler colonialism?

ABSTRACT The term “Asian settler” refers to a dynamic positionality that can help us to imagine and grow worlds beyond the settler racial capitalist state. Asian settler ally “being” and “becoming” enacts simultaneously the work of bringing solidarity into being even as we can locate relationships of solidarity in the past and transformative relationalities in the here and now. As Asian settlers, we are constantly learning how to be our best and highest selves, pressing against the limits of our imaginations as we deepen our capacities to stand with Indigenous peoples, land-based communities, and the earth to flourish in abundant futures.

ABSTRACT In recent years, diasporic hindu right has mobilized discourses of indigeneity to forge solidarities with Indigenous peoples across varying white settler colonial contexts of the U.S, Hawaiʻi, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. These solidarities are not decolonial but are colonial and casted manifestations of hindu nationalism. Rooted in brahminical supremacy, these solidarities are not only fraudulent but also disavow the lives and struggles of Indigenous peoples globally. These solidarities demonstrate how the hindu right works in insidious ways in the disguise of multiculturalism and liberal anti-racism to co-opt and manipulate anti-colonial and decolonial agendas.