Archipelago of resettlement Vietnamese refugee settlers and decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine

"From April to November 1975, the U.S. 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. Archipelago of Resettlement analyzes these two cases t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Espiritu Gandhi, Evyn Lê
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2022, [2022]©2019
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Introduction : Nước : archipelogics and land/water politics
  • Archipelagic history : Vietnam, Palestine, Guam, 1967-75
  • The "new frontier" : settler imperial prefigurations and afterlives of America's war in Vietnam
  • Operation New Life : Vietnamese refugees and U.S. settler militarism in Guam
  • Refugees in a state of refuge : Vietnamese Israelis and the question of Palestine
  • The politics of staying : the permanent/transient temporality of settler militarism in Guam
  • The politics of translation : competing rhetorics of return in Israel-Palestine and Vietnam
  • Afterword : floating islands : refugee futurities and decolonial horizons