Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora

'Nathalie Nguyen assembled an outstanding group of 20 international scholars for this impressive collection of essays on different aspects of Vietnamese diasporic experiences around the world. The essays show not only the complexities of Vietnamese diasporas but also how different these complexities are. They reveal a range of connections to Vietnam and to the countries where diasporic Vietnamese have settled. The images of losses, findings, adjustments and developments in the book challenge thought about a single Vietnamese diaspora.'

-- Professor Olga Dror, Texas A&M University

'Essential reading for students of the Vietnamese diaspora, this volume reflects the multi-sided aspect of the subject, offering approaches that span history, anthropology, sociology as well as literary and cultural studies to form an account that is simultaneously wide-ranging and precise. It is also, perhaps more surprisingly, often movingly informed by personal emotion. Nathalie Nguyen's editorial feat offers a model for a nuanced understanding of the complexities of diaspora, at times reading like a test case for wider issues such as compassion fatigue, forced repatriations, multi-generational memory and memorialisation.'

-- Professor Jennifer Yee, University of Oxford

"The Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora is a laudable effort that fleshes out several important topics."

-- Tuan Hoang, Roundtable Review, Journal of Vietnamese Studies

"Nathalie Hu nh Châu Nguy n's volume is an important contribution to understanding of Vietnam's diasporas and the broader contributions of Vietnamese diasporic scholars and artists to a range of disciplines."

-- Marguerite Nguyen, Roundtable Review, Journal of Vietnamese Studies

"An ambitious, carefully crafted, and timely collection, which pushes the contemporary scholarship on the Vietnamese diaspora to expand its geographical and temporal imagination ... and models a transregional and translingual approach that the field urgently needs."

-- Y Thien Nguyen, Roundtable Review, Journal of Vietnamese Studies

"The Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora is a timely intervention for a comprehension of the multifaceted sociocultural, political and historical developments from various Vietnamese communities in the past, present and future." --- Ti n Minh Nguy n, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal