1st Edition

Vietnamese Migrants in Australia and the Global Digital Diaspora Histories of Childhood, Forced Migration, and Belonging

By Anh Nguyen Austen Copyright 2022
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after the Vietnam War (and Vietnamese refugees, war orphans, and children of refugees) this book provides insight into the memories of forced migrant childhoods and histories, as well as the complexities of national and transnational identity and belonging in digital diaspora. As war and... Read more

Introduction: A Refugee and Digital Diaspora Study Part I: Migration and Digital Diaspora 1. Digital Diaspora: Vietnamese Refugees on Facebook 2. Unaccompanied Minors: Transitional Memories to 'Home' on Facebook Part II: Childhood and Becoming Refugees 3. Gratitude: Vietnamese Boat Children, Journeys, and Rescues 4. Refugee Childhood: Agency, Self Determination, Belonging Part III: Complexities of Real and Digital Belonging 5. Vietnamese Adoptees: Complexities of Belonging 6. Second-Generation Vietnamese: Inheritance of Refugee History  Epilogue: Historical Continuity in Diaspora

Biography

Anh Nguyen Austen is an Associate Research Fellow with the Research Centre for Refugees, Migration, and Humanitarian Studies at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences of Australian Catholic University. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College, Harvard Divinity School, and completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne.