Screening-debate: "Diversity Plaza" by Kesang Tseten
As part of the "South Asia and the Himalayas in pictures and debate" series.
Session 5 - Tibet in debate - "Jackson Heights: a Himalayan melting pot in New York".
Diversity Plaza by Kesang Tseten, 2022
Nearly 75,000 Himalayans live in Jackson Heights, Queens, the New York neighborhood that concentrates the greatest linguistic diversity in the USA and perhaps the world.
They work as nail salon employees and nannies, restaurant and grocery store clerks, Uber drivers and entrepreneurs, striving to balance the world they were born into with their new lives as Americans.
Debate:
- Anne-Sophie Bentz (Maîtresse de conférence, Université Paris Cité / CESSMA, specialist in South Asia)
- Mathieu Claveyrolas (chercheur, EHESS / CESAH, tbc) and in the presence of the director
