ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|40 pages
Colonial legacies
chapter 2|17 pages
Documentary film memorialisation of Vietnamese indentured labour in France and New Caledonia
chapter 3|21 pages
The post–World War II repatriation of immigrant Vietnamese workers
part II|94 pages
Refugees, histories and communities
chapter 7|17 pages
A brief history of the Vietnamese diaspora in the UK
chapter 8|21 pages
Refugee histories and the COVID-19 pandemic
part III|56 pages
Migrant workers, international students and mobilities
chapter 10|18 pages
Food practices, transnational identity and belonging of Vietnamese migrants in Moscow
chapter 11|16 pages
Navigating a postcolonial, capitalist and neoliberal world
part IV|124 pages
Literary and cultural production
part V|38 pages
Diasporas and negotiations