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Archipelago of Resettlement

Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine
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Archipelago of Resettlement explores the complex encounters between refugees and Indigenous sovereignty struggles in resettlement countries. Focusing on the 1975 processing of Vietnamese refugees in Guam and the later asylum granted to Vietnamese refugees in Israel, Evyn Lรช Espiritu Gandhi develops the concept of the refugee settler condition. This insightful analysis reveals how refugee resettlement is entangled with settler colonial dispossession of Indigenous peoples, linking the Vietnam War to broader geopolitical and Indigenous resistance movements. The book suggests pathways towards decolonial solidarity between refugee settlers and Indigenous communities.
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What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement?

From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Lรช Espiritu Gandhi analyses these two cases to theorise what she calls the refugee settler condition: the fraught positionality of refugee subjects whose resettlement in a settler colonial state is predicated on the unjust dispossession of an Indigenous population.

This groundbreaking book explores two forms of critical geography: first, archipelagos of empire, examining how the Vietnam War is linked to the US military buildup in Guam and unwavering support of Israel; and second, corresponding archipelagos of trans-Indigenous resistance, tracing how Chamorro decolonisation efforts and Palestinian liberation struggles are connected through the Vietnamese refugee figure.

Considering distinct yet overlapping modalities of refugee and Indigenous displacement, Archipelago of Resettlement offers tools for imagining emergent forms of decolonial solidarity between refugee settlers and Indigenous peoples.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520379657

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 April 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 1 map, 11 b-w art

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 499g

Pages: 284

About the Author

Evyn Lรช Espiritu Gandhi is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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