Recycling Migration and Changing Nationalisms: The Vietnamese Return Diaspora and Reconstruction of Vietnamese Nationhood

Chan, Yuk Wah; Tran, Thi Le Thu

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2011.572486

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“…In Rachel's case 'passing' as a local Vietnamese is seen as a verification of her ethnic authenticity. In contrast, other research has shown how the Viet Kieu returnees are often easily identifiable by the local population (Chan and Tran 2011;Carruthers 2002), because they are seen as 'fatter' (Carruthers 2002), and also fairer skinned.…”

Section: British-born Vietnamese Women's Narratives Of Visits To Vietnammentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Focusing on the second-generation, Espiritu and Tran (2002) show how 'symbolic transnationalism' takes place among young Vietnamese Americans who engage symbolically with the homeland through the transnational flow of ideas, norms and values and also 'imagined returns to the homeland through selective memory, cultural rediscovery and sentimental longings '(2002; 369). Return migration to Vietnam from the international diaspora has been an increasing trend in recent years (Carruthers 2002, Chan and Tran 2011, Chan 2013, Thai 2011, 2014. Over the last two decades the relaxation of Vietnamese Government Policy towards the Viet Kieu (Overseas Vietnamese) on visa requirements to enter the country, their ability to invest in business and send money to Vietnam, and travel between provinces once in Vietnam, has contributed to this increasing return migration (Phuong 2000, Chan 2011and Pham 2010.…”

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“…Return migration to Vietnam from the international diaspora has been an increasing trend in recent years (Carruthers 2002, Chan and Tran 2011, Chan 2013, Thai 2011, 2014. Over the last two decades the relaxation of Vietnamese Government Policy towards the Viet Kieu (Overseas Vietnamese) on visa requirements to enter the country, their ability to invest in business and send money to Vietnam, and travel between provinces once in Vietnam, has contributed to this increasing return migration (Phuong 2000, Chan 2011and Pham 2010. Chan and Tran (2011) have examined the interactive dynamics between the homeland society and the returning migrants, from the US, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, to show how changes occur both to the migrants' identity and to the state and society of origin.…”

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Achieving ethnic authenticity through ‘return’ visits to Vietnam: paradoxes of class and gender among the British-born Vietnamese

Barber

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The Vietnamese in Britain are a small and less visible community who remain largely unrecognised in wider society. For those born in Britain, constructing a Vietnamese identity and a sense of ethnic belonging is often rendered problematic due to a lack of inclusion in, and identification with, their local Vietnamese community. Instead, 'return' visits to Vietnam occupy a particularly important space in their narratives of ethnic authentification. Drawing upon the literature on migrant-homeland relations, this paper highlights the importance of divisions of gender, class and migration trajectories in understanding patterns of transnational participation and engagement among Vietnamese migrants. It is argued that British-born Vietnamese women are more likely to engage actively in their 'return' visits and make personal and emotional investments compared to their male counterparts whose visits remain largely symbolic. These differences are shaped by social class configurations and gender expectations both in Britain and Vietnam. However, while 'return' visits provide more effective ethnic authentification strategies for women than men who experience a more compromised masculine status and negative experiences in the 'homeland', paradoxically their class differences with the majority of the population weakens and questions this authenticity leading to an 'arrested' achievement of ethnic authenticity.

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2017

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“…Overwhelmingly, research in migration studies about diasporic visits (also called 'visiting friends and relatives' or VFR) focuses on symbolic and ideological identities related to belonging in the nation or family (Chan and Tran 2011;Heine, Licata, and Azzi 2007;Potter and Phillips 2006;Reynolds 2006). Buried within these discussions are a persistent problematic of class distinction, obscured by the focus on the ethno-national and often implicit in the fact of migration, whereby visiting relatives or co-nationals become other -sometimes not unlike tourists -through their relatively increased access to capital (Marlière 2006;Stephenson 2002).…”

Section: Diasporic Mobility: Visiting a Moroccan 'Home'mentioning

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Viscous automobilities: diasporic practices and vehicular assemblages of visiting ‘home’

Wagner

2017

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This paper analyzes how leisure practices of diasporic visitors cut viscous trails of car-based consumption through Morocco. During ethnography of summer holidays with Moroccan-origin visitors from Europe, research participants were often observed consuming elite leisure spaces in ways that were predicated on both their familiarity with Morocco as a homeland and their access to a car. Microanalysis of emergent dynamics of group distinction and cohesion achieved through car-propelled leisure consumption indicates how these visitors may be intentionally avoiding certain kinds of publics, which may unintentionally accumulate towards deeper economic divisions between themselves and a broader Moroccan consuming public.

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“…In the age of growing “brain circulation,” how to gain “brain” from the diaspora, therefore, has become a critical policy issue for many countries (Finch et al., ; Chan and Tran, ). States increasingly try to tap into diaspora resources by extending the boundary of citizenship to emigrants and their descendants (Bauböck, ; Brubaker, ).…”

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The Rise and Fall of Diasporic Bonds in Japanese‐Peruvian “Return” Migration

Takenaka

2014

International Migration

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Two decades after Japanese-Peruvians and other South Americans of Japanese descent began to migrate back to Japan, the return-migration phenomenon has ended. Induced by the Japanese government in the name of shared ethnicity, Japanese policymakers now largely regard return migration as a failed policy. It failed because return-migrants did not, in the view of policymakers, assimilate, integrate, or "make it" in Japan as expected. Thus, once-imagined ethnic bonds ceased to exist in Japan. However, ethnic bonds sustained themselves well outside Japan. The Japanese-Peruvian community in Peru has thrived and maintained continuous ties with Japan. What explains the rise and fall of diasporic ethnic bonds? Drawing on my ethnographic research in Japanese-Peruvian communities in Peru and Japan, I found that diasporic ethnic bonds are cultivated or weakened depending upon where diasporic populations are located in relation to their ancestral homeland, and how such ties are utilized, for what, and by whom. POLICY IMPLICATIONS• The strength of ties among dispersed members of an ethnic or national group is not consistent across countries or amongst all members; such ties may not be durable over generations.• Ethnic return-migration, often induced on the basis and expectation of shared culture and history, does not always work the way it is expected to.• The notion of ethnic and diasporic ties should be evaluated carefully when considered as a motivation or justification of international migration.

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Recycling Migration and Changing Nationalisms: The Vietnamese Return Diaspora and Reconstruction of Vietnamese Nationhood

Cited by 44 publications

References 27 publications

Achieving ethnic authenticity through ‘return’ visits to Vietnam: paradoxes of class and gender among the British-born Vietnamese

Achieving ethnic authenticity through ‘return’ visits to Vietnam: paradoxes of class and gender among the British-born Vietnamese

Viscous automobilities: diasporic practices and vehicular assemblages of visiting ‘home’

The Rise and Fall of Diasporic Bonds in Japanese‐Peruvian “Return” Migration

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