The Vietnamese diaspora in a transnational context : contested spaces, contested narratives / edited by Anna Vu and Vic Satzewich.

"The Vietnamese diaspora is now a truly global diaspora. This collection, one of the first of its kind, traces the Vietnamese diaspora's multifaceted roots in late 19th and early 20th century French colonialism, the end of the War in Vietnam, and economic migrations to fellow communist states in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vu, Anna (Editor)
Satzewich, Vic, 1961- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Series:Transnational migration and education (Sense Publishers) ; v. 7.
Subjects:
Vietnamese > Foreign countries > Social conditions.
Vietnamese > Foreign countries > Economic conditions.
Vietnam > Emigration and immigration > History.
Vietnamese diaspora.
Vietnamiens > Pays étrangers > Conditions sociales.
Vietnamiens > Pays étrangers > Conditions économiques.
Vietnamiens > Pays étrangers.
Emigration and immigration.
Vietnam.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 204 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of figures and tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction / Anna Vu & Vic Satzewich
  • Negotiating identities: the 1964 return of the Francophone Polynesian Vietnamese to Vietnam / Gisele Bousquet
  • Social mobility and the meaning of freedom among Vietnamese refugees and immigrants / Tuan Hoang
  • Belonging in the UK Vietnamese community: second-generation experiences / Tamsin Barber
  • The politics of remembering: intergenerational tensions in the Vietnamese diaspora / Anna Vu
  • Transnational Vietnamese: Germany and beyond / Gertrud Hüwelmeier
  • Pro-democracy activism in the Vietnamese diaspora: transgressing Cold War-era divisions in the era of social media / Grażyna Szymańska-Matusiewicz
  • Capitalist lack: Vietnamese American remittances as cultural supplement and political critique / Ivan V. Small
  • Traditional characteristics and new dimensions: Vietnamese American self-employment in the twenty-first century / C.N. Le
  • The price of nailing it: emotional labour in the nail salon industry / Anna Vu
  • Vietnamese women in the Australian Defence Force: minorities, histories and cultural heritage / Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen
  • Index
  • Bibliographical references.