After Saigon's fall : refugees and US-Vietnamese relations, 1975-2000 / Amanda C. Demmer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demmer, Amanda C., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in US foreign relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Vietnam--History--20th century.

Refugees.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Refugees.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Refugees--United States--History--20th century.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam.

United States.

International relations.

Vietnam.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Vietnam--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Few historians of the Vietnam War have covered the post-1975 era or engaged comprehensively with refugee politics, humanitarianism, and human rights as defining issues of the period. After Saigon's Fall is the first major work to uncover this history. Amanda C. Demmer offers a new account of the post-War normalization of US-Vietnam relations by centering three major transformations of the late twentieth century: the reassertion of the US Congress in American foreign policy; the Indochinese diaspora and changing domestic and international refugee norms; and the intertwining of humanitarianism and the human rights movement. By tracing these domestic, regional, and global phenomena, After Saigon's Fall captures the contingencies and contradictions inherent in US-Vietnamese normalization. Using previously untapped archives to recover a riveting narrative with both policymakers and nonstate advocates at its center, Demmer's book also reveals much about US politics and society in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Contents:

The fall of Saigon

Human rights, refugees, and normalization

Expanding the US agenda

US-SRV cooperation

Refugees and the road map

Humanitarian issues, human rights, and ongoing normalization

Conclusion.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781108770354

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