RESEARCH JOURNAL
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Researching Burmese Exile in New York City
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Soe Lin Aung
EXCERPT
The fieldwork I conducted for my senior thesis in anthropology involved, needless to say, very little by way of travelling and exploring—unless you consider, as some Columbia students do, Jackson Heights and New Jersey to be foreign lands. Indeed, were I to have opened my thesis with an Argonauts-like exhortation to the reader, it wouldn't quite come off: "imagine yourself suddenly on a subway, surrounded by fellow New Yorkers, very much un-alone, while the 116th Street platform rapidly disappears from sight. Since it will take forty-five minutes or so to reach Elmhurst on the 7, you have nothing to do, but to begin at once—or later, it doesn't really matter—listening to that album you just downloaded from iTunes."
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