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Full referenceNguyen, Phuong Tran (2009), The people of the fall: Refugee nationalism in Little Saigon, 1975-2005
TypeDissertation
Author(s)Nguyen, Phuong Tran
TitleThe people of the fall: Refugee nationalism in Little Saigon, 1975-2005
Year2009
UniversityUniversity of Southern California
M.A./Ph.D.Ph.D
Number of Pages331
LanguageEnglish
URLhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/304995644?accountid=15868
SubjectEthnic Studies
Keywords
Social sciences, Asian American, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Race, Refugee, Vietnamese, Little Saigon, California
AbstractThroughout history refugees have formed their own communities in new lands while holding on to memories of exile and harboring aspirations for reclaiming their lost nations. These memories and aspirations are part of a process I call "refugee nationalism," and this dissertation studies its origins, development, and persistence within Southern California's Little Saigon, the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam. Most studies of Vietnamese Americans have marginalized the refugees' attachment to the fallen country of South Vietnam, focusing instead on their transformation from refugees to immigrants in the process of shedding their old-world identities and adapting to their American surroundings. This perspective fails to appreciate the fact that refugee nationalism has flourished in conjunction with becoming American. Like prior generations of stateless people, the former South Vietnamese had to come to terms with a refugee cultural identity without precedent in their own cultural history. Only later would they come to embrace refugee nationalism. (source: ProQuest)
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