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THE PEOPLE OF THE FALL:
REFUGEE NATIONALISM IN LITTLE SAIGON, 1975-2005
by
Phuong Tran Nguyen
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Phuong Tran Nguyen
Object Description
| Title | The people of the fall: refugee nationalism in Little Saigon, 1975-2005 |
| Author | Nguyen, Phuong Tran |
| Author email | ptnguyen@usc.edu; phonung@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies & Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-06-15 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 05 Aug. 2011. |
| Date published | 2011-08-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kurashige, Lon |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sánchez, George Gilmore, Ruthie Nguyen, Viet Deverell, William |
| Abstract | Throughout history refugees have formed their own communities in new lands while holding on to memories of exile and harboring aspirations for reclaiming their lost nations. These memories and aspirations are part of a process I call “refugee nationalism,” and this dissertation studies its origins, development, and persistence within Southern California’s Little Saigon, the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam. Most studies of Vietnamese Americans have marginalized the refugees’ attachment to the fallen country of South Vietnam, focusing instead on their transformation from refugees to immigrants in the process of shedding their old-world identities and adapting to their American surroundings. This perspective fails to appreciate the fact that refugee nationalism has flourished in conjunction with becoming American. Like prior generations of stateless people, the former South Vietnamese had to come to terms with a refugee cultural identity without precedent in their own cultural history. Only later would they come to embrace refugee nationalism. |
| Keyword | Vietnamese; Vietnamese American studies; Asian; Asian American studies; refugee studies; nationalism; United States history; adaptation; acculturation; assimilation; popular culture; politics; protest |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | Vietnam |
| Coverage date | 1975/2005 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2462 |
| Rights | Nguyen, Phuong Tran |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Nguyen-2838 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Nguyen-2838.pdf |
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| Full text | THE PEOPLE OF THE FALL: REFUGEE NATIONALISM IN LITTLE SAIGON, 1975-2005 by Phuong Tran Nguyen A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Phuong Tran Nguyen |
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