Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora

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).

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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