Escaping Dodge in a Dodge: Southeast Asian American Responses to Refugee Dispersion in Post War America

When

Thursday, October 29, 12 PM to 1:15 PM

Where

Gibson Hall, Charlottesville

Price

Free

This talk focuses on Vietnamese migration experiences within the United States over the last half century since 1975, triangulating the experiences of Southeast Asian refugees and migrants actively shaping their lives and communities across the East Coast, the Midwest, California, and the sunbelt South. It examines transnational financial, migratory and material flows among Vietnamese Americans, and how and why they have contributed to first, secondary and third wave migration patterns. Southeast Asian refugees resettled in the U.S. after the Vietnam War were scattered across the country as part of a dispersion policy intended to culturally assimilate newcomers. By the 1980s, catalyzed in part by auto-mobile affordances, many had moved to warmer climes with more concentrated Asian population nodes – in particular California. Since the 2000s, a third wave of migration has been fueled by new international migration as well as interstate migrants who feel priced out of California. Many ar

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