When the Berlin Wall fell, Germany united in a wave of euphoria and
solidarity. Also caught in the current were Vietnamese border
crossers who had left their homeland after its reunification in
1975. Unwilling to live under socialism, one group resettled in
West Berlin as refugees. In the name of socialist solidarity, a
second group arrived in East Berlin as contract workers. The Border
Within paints a vivid portrait of these disparate Vietnamese
migrants' encounters with each other in the post-socialist city of
Berlin. Journalists, scholars, and Vietnamese border crossers
themselves consider these groups that left their homes under vastly
different conditions to be one people, linked by an unquestionable
ethnic nationhood. Phi Hong Su's rigorous ethnography unpacks this
intuition. In absorbing prose, Su reveals how these Cold War
compatriots enact palpable social boundaries in everyday life. This
book uncovers how 20th-century state formation and international
migration—together, border crossings—generate enduring migrant
classifications. In doing so, border crossings fracture shared
ethnic, national, and religious identities in enduring ways.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2022 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Phi Hong Su
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
216 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-3014-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-5036-3014-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781503630147 |
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