Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2036565
A. Flores
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2038042
Patricia Nguyễn
ABSTRACT After the Vietnam/American War, an estimated 1–2.5 million people were imprisoned in reeducation camps or trại học tập cải tạo with no formal charges or trials and 165,000 people were estimated to have died in the camps either from malnourishment, disease, or execution. In this article, I analyze my father Tam Van Nguyen’s oral history of reeducation camps with excerpts from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s memorandum to Amnesty International. I do so in order to theorize states of suspension as an embodied analytic that further draws on Frantz Fanon’s discussion of the importance of “knowing the strength of their own muscles” in national struggle to further push the boundaries of what freedom can feel like in the body. I locate states of suspension at the crux between three states of being: deprivation and indulgence, citizenship and criminality, and life and death, as they are enacted through the techniques of torture and punishment, performances of sovereign power, and modes of bodily capture. This research seeks to nuance Cold War dichotomies of promises of freedom by U.S. liberal war and Marxist-Leninist communist revolution to challenge our relationship to nation-state building as the ultimate achievement of national independence.
越南/美国战争后，估计有100万至250万人被关押在再教育营或trại học tập cải tạo，没有正式的指控或审判，估计有16.5万人死于营养不良、疾病或处决。在这篇文章中，我分析了我父亲Tam Van Nguyen关于再教育营的口述历史，并摘录了越南社会主义共和国给国际特赦组织的备忘录。我这样做是为了将悬浮状态理论化，作为一种具体化的分析，进一步借鉴弗朗茨·法农(Frantz Fanon)关于在民族斗争中“了解自己肌肉的力量”的重要性的讨论，以进一步推动自由在身体中可以感受到的界限。我将暂停状态定位于三种存在状态之间的关键:剥夺与放纵，公民与犯罪，生与死，因为它们是通过酷刑和惩罚的技术，主权权力的表现，以及身体捕获的模式来实现的。本研究试图通过美国自由主义战争和马克思列宁主义共产主义革命对冷战中自由承诺的二分法进行细微的区分，以挑战我们将民族国家建设作为民族独立的最终成就的关系。
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2036561
C. Baik
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1973943
C. Tsu
ABSTRACT This article examines the history of community gardens set up for refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in the 1980s as a window into debates surrounding resettlement, economic inequality, and welfare dependency in the United States. It argues that despite advocates’ emphasis on the continuity to the past that gardening has provided for refugees, refugee gardeners identified a vast disjuncture between their rural existence in Southeast Asia and the functions of vegetable growing in the U.S. Through community gardening, refugees nonetheless leveraged their intimate knowledge of nature and the environment to gain a measure of economic empowerment.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1981195
Son-Ca Lam
ABSTRACT Bearing witness through video ethnography is a generative practice for revealing nuanced elements of non-verbal sociocultural practices that otherwise remain hidden in interview-based research methods. I share how I used this methodology to highlight the sociocultural practices and sensory worlds that constitute the assemblage forming the everyday embodied geographies of home for post-1975 Vietnamese refugee women. Intervening in discourses that portray refugee women as victims of their circumstance, I center Vietnamese refugee women’s subjecthood to show how they exercise agency and make home in the face of the on-going sociospatial displacements that punctuate their everyday lives after resettlement.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1990001
Marimas Hosan Mostiller
ABSTRACT Cham peoples are typically recognized as ethnic or religious minorities in Southeast Asia and the U.S. We are never recognized as Indigenous on any national or international platform despite our Indigeneity to the Kingdom of Champa (present-day central and southern Vietnam). This essay examines the complex positions of Cham refugees of the Vietnam War and Khmer Rouge genocide who necessarily resettled in the U.S. Utilizing Yến Lê Espiritu’s concept of “critical juxtaposition,” this essay critically juxtaposes two Cham identities, often viewed as separate identities: “Indigenous” and “refugee.” As Indigenous Asian peoples in diaspora, Cham peoples complicate the discussion of Asian settler colonialism.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1981536
L. Bui
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the life and work of refugee-turned-singer M.I.A. to explain the concept of refugee worlding, the transversal intersectional modes of being a refugee. Exploring the artist’s unique aesthetics as well as her play with time-space, I indicate the ways such a practice is emblematic of the creative and critical methodology of Critical Refugee Studies (CRS). As a border hopper, M.I.A.’s imaginative mobilization and weaponizing of refugee-ness jump scales, musical and otherwise, a disruption of the militarized contexts that drive the flight of migrants. Such artprop takes stock of the many world(s) forged, embodied, performed, and crafted on refugee-centered terms.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1981807
Eman Ghanayem, Jennifer Mogannam, Rana Sharif
ABSTRACT This forum traces the specificity and complexity of the Palestinian refugee. In centering Palestinian subjectivity and the nature of settler colonial displacement, the authors illuminate the contributions of the Palestinian refugee experience to various fields, especially the field of critical refugee studies. As they respond to key concerns in the context of Palestine and its refugees, the contributors interrogate the power dynamics that work to determine refugee fate, situate ancestral knowledge and the revolutionary role of Palestinian women, challenge discursive trends that racialize Palestinians, and illuminate the land-based struggle and the actions and hopes of the Palestinian project of decolonization.
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