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    "pk": 42900,
    "title": "Excerpt from Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South  Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only  reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of  gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees—as  opposed to willing immigrants—profoundly influenced their cultural  identity.\nPhuong Tran Nguyen examines the phenomenon of refugee  nationalism among Vietnamese Americans in Southern California. Here, the  residents of Little Saigon keep alive nostalgia for the old regime and,  by extension, their claim to a lost statehood. Their refugee  nationalism is less a refusal to assimilate than a mode of becoming, in  essence, a distinct group of refugee Americans. Nguyen examines the  factors that encouraged them to adopt this identity. His analysis also  moves beyond the familiar rescue narrative to chart the intimate yet  contentious relationship these Vietnamese Americans have with their  adopted homeland. Nguyen sets their plight within the context of the  Cold War, an era when Americans sought to atone for broken promises but  also saw themselves as providing a sanctuary for people everywhere  fleeing communism.\nPublisher web page: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/69qdw3cp9780252041358.html",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "<p>Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.</p>",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Vietnam War"
        },
        {
            "word": "Transnational American Studies"
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        {
            "word": "refugee policies"
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    "section": "Forward",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jj8c3r8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Phuong",
            "middle_name": "Tran",
            "last_name": "Nguyen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "California State University, Monterey Bay",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2018-12-27T00:19:49Z",
    "date_accepted": "2018-12-27T00:19:49Z",
    "date_published": "2018-12-27T00:27:35Z",
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