The Vietnamese Diaspora in a Transnational Context

Contested Spaces, Contested Narratives
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51395-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: Transnational Migration and Education

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 1970s and 1980s. Out of these migrations, Vietnamese communities have now formed in many of the major immigrant receiving countries around the world.

This collection traces the connection between the historically traumatic forms of dispersal from Vietnam and todays transnational Vietnamese communities. It considers questions about how conditions of exit from Vietnam shape Vietnamese diaspora identities and patterns of settlement and economic integration. It also addresses questions of how memory politics shape the ways in which various segments of the Vietnamese diaspora engage with contemporary Vietnam, and shape what is now an intergenerational diaspora.

Contributors are: Tamsin Barber, Gisele Bousquet, Tuan Hoang, Gertrude Hüwelmeier, C. N. Le, Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen, Vic Satzewich, Ivan Small, Grazyna Szymanska-Matusiewicz and Anna Vu.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Vu, Anna

Satzewich, Vic

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Anna Vu and Vic Satzewich

1 Negotiating Identities: The 1964 Return of the Francophone Polynesian Vietnamese to Vietnam

Gisele Bousquet

2 Social Mobility and the Meaning of Freedom among Vietnamese Refugees and Immigrants

Tuan Hoang

3 Belonging in the UK Vietnamese Community: Second-Generation Experiences

Tamsin Barber

4 The Politics of Remembering: Intergenerational Tensions in the Vietnamese Diaspora

Anna Vu

5 Transnational Vietnamese: Germany and Beyond

Gertrud Hüwelmeier

6 Pro-Democracy Activism in the Vietnamese Diaspora: Transgressing Cold War–Era Divisions in the Era of Social Media

Grazyna Szymanska-Matusiewicz

7 Capitalist Lack: Vietnamese American Remittances as Cultural Supplement and Political Critique

Ivan V. Small

8 Traditional Characteristics and New Dimensions: Vietnamese American Self-Employment in the Twenty-First Century

C. N. Le

9 The Price of Nailing It: Emotional Labour in the Nail Salon Industry

Anna Vu

10 Vietnamese Women in the Australian Defence Force: Minorities, Histories and Cultural Heritage

Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Vu is a sociologist from Montreal, Canada. Her research focuses on various aspects of the Vietnamese diaspora experience, both in Canada and globally. She has published articles on diaspora politics and identity formation, collective trauma and memory and commemoration. Her current project examines the issue of labour precarity in the Vietnamese nail salon industry.

Vic Satzewich is Professor of Sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He is past president of the Canadian Sociological Association. His most recent books include Points of Entry: How Canada’s Immigration Officers Decide Who Gets In(University of British Columbia Press, 2015) and ‘Race’ and Ethnicity in Canada: A Critical Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2021).