Phuong Tran Nguyen was born in Vietnam and migrated to the
United States a few years after the Vietnam War. He is an assistant
professor of history at California State University, Monterey
Bay.
"Nguyen offers a bold yet nuanced analysis of Vietnamese refugee
experiences in the US. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice
"In Becoming Refugee American Phuong Tran Nguyen offers a timely
and critical analysis of the history of Vietnamese refugees in the
United States." --H-Asia
"Becoming Refugee American is an ideal work to understand both the
particular experiences of Vietnamese peoples in the United States
and the broader implication of refugeeism." --The Journal of
American History
"Effectively illustrates the multifaceted challenges confronted by
Vietnamese refugees who become part of the politics of rescue."
--Western Historical Quarterly
"Overall, Becoming Refugee American is an excellent and welcome
addition to the growing scholarship on the Vietnamese American
experience. The historical research and methodology devoted to
writing this text give it a nuanced perspective." --American
Historical Review
"The book was lucidly written and meticulously documented. For this
postwar-born Vietnamese American reviewer, the sensitive portrayal
of rescue politics rang true and inspired sympathy for an older
generation whose Refugee Americanness reflected grief and need as
much as culture or ideology." --International Migration Review
"Nguyen develops the concept of refugee nationalism to account for
the complex affective lives of diasporic Vietnamese, whose loyalty
to their lost nation, the Republic of Vietnam, is entangled in, and
yet is also distinct from, their attachment to and gratitude for
the US. . . . Becoming Refugee American is a book that shows the
necessity of historicizing a fuller range of emotions." --Pacific
Affairs
"This is the history that Vietnamese Americans and those who study
them have been waiting for, a terrific account of how Vietnamese
refugees came to the United States and founded their own Little
Saigon. Phuong Nguyen's clarifying, enjoyable account provides a
persuasive framework of 'refugee nationalism' for understanding how
these newcomers turned themselves into Americans."--Viet Thanh
Nguyen, author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of
War
“The refugee world of Little Saigon now has its historian. Phuong
Tran Nguyen’s brave and highly original book tells the intriguing
story of how tens of thousands of Vietnamese became American; and
anyone interested in the domestic legacy of America’s war in
Indochina or its recent wars and military engagements in the Middle
East should be listening.”--Lon Kurashige, author of Japanese
American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and
Festival, 1934-1990
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