{"product_id":"archipelago-of-resettlement-by-evyn-le-espiritu-gandhi-9780520379657","title":"Archipelago of Resettlement","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 Lê 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConsidering distinct yet overlapping modalities of refugee and Indigenous displacement, \u003cem\u003eArchipelago of Resettlement\u003c\/em\u003e offers tools for imagining emergent forms of decolonial solidarity between refugee settlers and Indigenous peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595694653676,"sku":"9780520379657","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520379657-archipelago-of-resettlement.jpg?v=1777902915","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/archipelago-of-resettlement-by-evyn-le-espiritu-gandhi-9780520379657","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}