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      Toward a Critical Refugee Study: The Vietnamese Refugee Subject in US Scholarship

      Journal of Vietnamese Studies
      University of California Press

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          This review of the field of Vietnamese refugee studies in the United States first assesses the social science literature that dominated Vietnamese studies during the 1970s and 1980s, showing how this scholarship produces Vietnamese Americans as the desperate-turned-successful. Then it reviews the current range of Vietnamese American scholarship, foregrounding the promising studies that situate the diversity and vibrancy of Vietnamese lives within a critical global context. The paper concludes by suggesting that we imbue the term "refugee" with social and political critiques that call into question the relationship between war, race, and violence, then and now.

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                Journal
                Journal of Vietnamese Studies
                University of California Press
                1559-372X
                1559-3738
                February 01 2006
                February 2006
                February 01 2006
                February 2006
                : 1
                : 1-2
                : 410-433
                Article
                10.1525/vs.2006.1.1-2.410
                e347fd2c-66b2-44f8-b0d9-82a74125ab1d
                © 2006
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