List of table x
List of contributors xi
Acknowledgements xvi
1 Vietnamese diasporas: An introduction 1
Nathalie Hünh Châu Nguy¿n
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 Hünh Châu Nguy¿n
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 Vi¿t Ki¿u 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
Di¿u Linh ¿ào and Julia Behrens
Index 379
