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Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean,
performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global
economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers
harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and
filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center
of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new
stories of empire that intersect with the "grand narratives" of
diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels.
Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military
combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in
common-they all have labor histories. This collection challenges
historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted,
and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project
of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military
presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in
this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player
whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from
Central America to West Africa to the United States itself. Workers
are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are
multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire's rhetoric
of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated
its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences
reveal the gulf between the American 'denial of empire' and the
lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military
exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the
center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.
Robert Ferrell Book Prize Honorable Mention 2021, Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations Book Award for Outstanding
Achievement in History Honorable Mention 2022, Association for
Asian American StudiesAfter the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000
Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge
throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This is the story of
what happened in the camps. In Camps raises key questions that
remain all too relevant today: Who is a refugee? Who determines
this status? And how does it change over time? From Guam to
Malaysia and the Philippines to Hong Kong, In Camps is the first
major work on Vietnamese refugee policy to pay close attention to
host territories and to explore Vietnamese activism in the camps
and the diaspora. This book explains how Vietnamese were
transformed from de facto refugees to individual asylum seekers to
repatriates. Ambitiously covering people on the ground-local
governments, teachers, and corrections officers-as well as powerful
players such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the US
government, Jana Lipman shows that the local politics of first
asylum sites often drove international refugee policy. Unsettling
most accounts of Southeast Asian migration to the US, In Camps
instead emphasizes the contingencies inherent in refugee policy and
experiences.
Robert Ferrell Book Prize Honorable Mention 2021, Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations Book Award for Outstanding
Achievement in History Honorable Mention 2022, Association for
Asian American StudiesAfter the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000
Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge
throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This is the story of
what happened in the camps. In Camps raises key questions that
remain all too relevant today: Who is a refugee? Who determines
this status? And how does it change over time? From Guam to
Malaysia and the Philippines to Hong Kong, In Camps is the first
major work on Vietnamese refugee policy to pay close attention to
host territories and to explore Vietnamese activism in the camps
and the diaspora. This book explains how Vietnamese were
transformed from de facto refugees to individual asylum seekers to
repatriates. Ambitiously covering people on the ground-local
governments, teachers, and corrections officers-as well as powerful
players such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the US
government, Jana Lipman shows that the local politics of first
asylum sites often drove international refugee policy. Unsettling
most accounts of Southeast Asian migration to the US, In Camps
instead emphasizes the contingencies inherent in refugee policy and
experiences.
Guantanamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on
Terror. Yet Guantanamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in
Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has required
more than soldiers and sailors--it has required workers. This
revealing history of the women and men who worked on the U.S. naval
base in Guantanamo Bay tells the story of U.S.-Cuban relations from
a new perspective, and at the same time, shows how neocolonialism,
empire, and revolution transformed the lives of everyday people.
Drawing from rich oral histories and little-explored Cuban
archives, Jana K. Lipman analyzes how the Cold War and the Cuban
revolution made the naval base a place devoid of law and
accountability. The result is a narrative filled with danger,
intrigue, and exploitation throughout the twentieth century.
Opening a new window onto the history of U.S. imperialism in the
Caribbean and labor history in the region, her book tells how
events in Guantanamo and the base created an ominous precedent
likely to inform the functioning of U.S. military bases around the
world.
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean,
performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global
economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers
harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and
filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center
of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new
stories of empire that intersect with the "grand narratives" of
diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels.
Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military
combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in
common-they all have labor histories. This collection challenges
historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted,
and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project
of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military
presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in
this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player
whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from
Central America to West Africa to the United States itself. Workers
are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are
multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire's rhetoric
of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated
its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences
reveal the gulf between the American 'denial of empire' and the
lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military
exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the
center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.
Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese
military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the
dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children,
rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in
Vietnamese in the years just after 1991, when he and his family
finally immigrated to the United States, Tran Dinh Tru's memoir
provides a detailed and searing account of his individual trauma as
a refugee in limbo, and then as a prisoner in the Vietnamese
reeducation camps. In April 1975, more than 120,000 Indochinese
refugees sought and soon gained resettlement in the United States.
Given the chaos of the evacuation, however, approximately 1,500
Vietnamese men and women insisted in no uncertain terms on being
repatriated back to Vietnam. Tru was one of these repatriates. To
resolve the escalating crisis, the U.S. government granted the
Vietnamese a large ship, the Viet Nam Thuong Tin. An experienced
naval commander, Tru became the captain of the ship and sailed the
repatriates back to Vietnam in October 1975. On return, Tru was
imprisoned and underwent forced labor for more than twelve years.
Tru's account reveals a hidden history of refugee camps on Guam,
internal divisions among Vietnamese refugees, political disputes
between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the
U.S. government, and the horror of the postwar "reeducation" camps.
While there are countless books on the U.S. war in Vietnam, there
are still relatively few in English that narrate the war from a
Vietnamese perspective. This translation adds new and unexpected
dimensions to the U.S. military's final withdrawal from Vietnam.
Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese
military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the
dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children,
rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in
Vietnamese in the years just after 1991, when he and his family
finally immigrated to the United States, Tran Dinh Tru's memoir
provides a detailed and searing account of his individual trauma as
a refugee in limbo, and then as a prisoner in the Vietnamese
reeducation camps. In April 1975, more than 120,000 Indochinese
refugees sought and soon gained resettlement in the United States.
Given the chaos of the evacuation, however, approximately 1,500
Vietnamese men and women insisted in no uncertain terms on being
repatriated back to Vietnam. Tru was one of these repatriates. To
resolve the escalating crisis, the U.S. government granted the
Vietnamese a large ship, the Viet Nam Thuong Tin. An experienced
naval commander, Tru became the captain of the ship and sailed the
repatriates back to Vietnam in October 1975. On return, Tru was
imprisoned and underwent forced labor for more than twelve years.
Tru's account reveals a hidden history of refugee camps on Guam,
internal divisions among Vietnamese refugees, political disputes
between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the
U.S. government, and the horror of the postwar "reeducation" camps.
While there are countless books on the U.S. war in Vietnam, there
are still relatively few in English that narrate the war from a
Vietnamese perspective. This translation adds new and unexpected
dimensions to the U.S. military's final withdrawal from Vietnam.
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