The Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of Vietnamese migrations and diasporas, including the post-1975 diaspora, one of the most significant and highly visible diasporas of the late twentieth century.
This handbook delves into the processes of Vietnamese migration and highlights the variety of Vietnamese diasporic journeys, trajectories and communities as well as the richness and depth of Vietnamese diasporic literary and cultural production. The contributions across the fields of history, anthropology, sociology, literary studies, film studies and cultural studies point to the diversity of approaches relating to scholarship on Vietnamese diasporas.
The handbook is structured in five parts:
Colonial legacies Refugees, histories and communities Migrant workers, international students and mobilities Literary and cultural production Diasporas and negotiations
Offering multiple cutting-edge interpretations, representations and reconstructions of diaspora and the diasporic experience, this first reference work of the Vietnamese diaspora will be an invaluable tool for students and researchers in the fields of Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Refugee Studies, Transnational Studies and Migration and Diaspora Studies.
Edited by:
Nathalie Huỳnh Châu Nguyễn (Monash University Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 900g
ISBN: 9780367463960
ISBN 10: 0367463962
Pages: 386
Publication Date: 14 March 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of table x List of contributors xi Acknowledgements xvi 1 Vietnamese diasporas: An introduction 1 Nathalie Huỳnh Châu Nguyễn PART I Colonial legacies 27 2 Documentary film memorialisation of Vietnamese indentured labour in France and New Caledonia: Sighting history 29 Alexandra Kurmann and Tess Do 3 The post–World War II repatriation of immigrant Vietnamese workers: For the metropole or for the homeland? 46 Chizuru Namba PART II Refugees, histories and communities 67 4 The archipelago of camps: Between Vietnam and the diaspora 69 Jana K. Lipman 5 The Vietnamese diaspora in Germany: Refugees, contract workers and migrants 85 Frank Bösch 6 The Vietnamese diaspora in Japan: Refugees and internationalisation 104 Ikuo Kawakami 7 A brief history of the Vietnamese diaspora in the UK: Migration, resettlement and social characteristics 123 Tamsin Barber 8 Refugee histories and the COVID-19 pandemic: Second-generation Vietnamese Australians in the health professions 140 Nathalie Huỳnh Châu Nguyễn PART III Migrant workers, international students and mobilities 161 9 Vietnamese migrants in the Czech Republic: Busy entrepreneurs and their children 163 Adéla Souralová 10 Food practices, transnational identity and belonging of Vietnamese migrants in Moscow: Nostalgic consumption 183 Jessica Steinman 11 Navigating a postcolonial, capitalist and neoliberal world: A comparison of Vietnamese international students’ and migrant workers’ mobilities 201 Anne-Cécile Delaisse and Tamsin Barber PART IV Literary and cultural production 217 12 Linda Lê: Migrant Writer M/other 219 Leslie Barnes 13 The transdiasporic turn towards multiplicity in contemporary Francophone and American Việt Kiều literature 238 Alexandra Kurmann 14 Memory Moments in Vietnamese American cultural productions 253 Ivan V. Small 15 Ghostly brothers and spectral relations in Vietnamese diasporic literature 270 Catherine H. Nguyen 16 Diasporic Vietnamese metafiction of the 1.5 and second generations 292 H. J. Tam 17 Refugee memories in Vietnamese diasporic films 307 Lan Duong 18 Reading for food in diasporic Vietnamese narrative cookbooks 323 Elizabeth M. Collins PART V Diasporas and negotiations 341 19 The diasporic intellectual self-concept: The case of Vietnamese intellectuals in North America 343 Anna Vu 20 Creating space for negotiations of experiences and knowledge for a more inclusive research practice in diaspora studies: The ‘in-between’ 361 Diệu Linh Đào and Julia Behrens Index 379
Nathalie Huỳnh Châu Nguyễn is Professor of History at Monash University, Australia, and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA). Her research focuses on the Vietnamese diaspora and the experiences of refugees. A Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Oxford and former Australian Research Council Future Fellow, she is the author of four books including Vietnamese Voices: Gender and Cultural Identity in the Vietnamese Francophone Novel (2003), Voyage of Hope: Vietnamese Australian Women’s Narratives (2005) which was shortlisted for the 2007 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, 2010 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Memory Is Another Country: Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora (2009) and South Vietnamese Soldiers: Memories of the Vietnam War and After (2016).
Reviews for Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora
"""Nathalie Nguyen assembled an outstanding group of 20 international scholars for this impressive collection of essays on different aspects of Vietnamese diasporic experiences around the world. The essays show not only the complexities of Vietnamese diasporas but also how different these complexities are. They reveal a range of connections to Vietnam and to the countries where diasporic Vietnamese have settled. The images of losses, findings, adjustments, and developments in the book challenge thought about a single Vietnamese diaspora."" --Professor Olga Dror, Texas A&M University"
