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Record Nr.

UNISA996500671803316

Autore

Espiritu Gandhi Evyn Lê

Titolo

Archipelago of Resettlement : Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine / / Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of California Press, 2022

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-520-97683-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

American Crossroads ; ; 65

Disciplina

325/.210959709967

Soggetti

Refugees - Guam - History - 20th century

Refugees - Guam - 20th century

Refugees - Israel - History - 20th century

Refugees - Israel - 20th century

Settler colonialism - Political aspects

Vietnamese - Guam - History - 20th century

Vietnamese - Guam - 20th century

Vietnamese - Israel - History - 20th century

Vietnamese - Israel - 20th century

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE Mapping Sources -- 1. Archipelagic History -- 2. The “New Frontier” -- PART TWO Tracing Migrations -- 3. Operation New Life -- 4. Refugees in a State of Refuge -- PART THREE Unsettling Resettlements -- 5. The Politics of Staying -- 6. The Politics of Translation -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.