American Crossroads
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American Crossroads

Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine

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American Crossroads

Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement? From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112, 000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi analyzes these two cases to theorize what she calls the refugee settler condition: the fraught positionality of refugee subjects whose resettlement in a settler colonial state is predicated on the unjust dispossession of an Indigenous population. This groundbreaking book explores two forms of critical geography: first, archipelagos of empire, examining how the Vietnam War is linked to the US military buildup in Guam and unwavering support of Israel, and second, corresponding archipelagos of trans-Indigenous resistance, tracing how Chamorro decolonization efforts and Palestinian liberation struggles are connected through the Vietnamese refugee figure. Considering distinct yet overlapping modalities of refugee and Indigenous displacement, Gandhi offers tools for imagining emergent forms of decolonial solidarity between refugee settlers and Indigenous peoples.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780520976832
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Asian American Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction. Nước: Archipelogics and Land/Water Politics
  8. PART ONE. MAPPING SOURCES: ARCHIPELAGIC HISTORIES AND FLUID FRONTIERS
  9. PART TWO. TRACING MIGRATIONS: ARCHIPELAGOS OF SETTLER COLONIALISM, US EMPIRE, AND REFUGEE REFUSAL
  10. PART THREE. UNSETTLING RESETTLEMENTS: ARCHIPELAGOS OF DECOLONIZATION ACROSS GUAM, ISRAEL-PALESTINE, AND VIETNAM
  11. Afterword. Floating Islands: Refugee Futurities and Decolonial Horizons
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography