Vietnamese migrants in Australia and the global digital diaspora : Histories of childhood, forced migration, and belonging

Book


Nguyen Austen, Anh. (2023). Vietnamese migrants in Australia and the global digital diaspora : Histories of childhood, forced migration, and belonging Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003169574
AuthorsNguyen Austen, Anh
Abstract

Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after the Vietnam War (and Vietnamese refugees, war orphans, and children of refugees) this book provides insight into the memories of forced migrant childhoods and histories, as well as the complexities of national and transnational identity and belonging in digital diaspora.

As war and displacement compounds the need for creating communities and histories for cultural continuity, this book is a history about childhood and migration for the Vietnamese diaspora of refugees, adoptees, and second generation in Australia and their connectedness to a global and digital diaspora. Using Facebook as a digital archive for historical research, Vietnamese Migrants in Australia and the Global Digital Diaspora presents new methods for the study of what Nguyen Austen proposes as a new area of digital diaspora studies for interdisciplinary research about real and digital life in the humanities and social sciences. As a contemporary digital diaspora study of Vietnamese forced child migrants from 1975 to the present, this book contains a mixed-methods historical analysis of the impact of war and displacement on memories of childhood.

This book presents an innovative history of the national, transnational, digital, and contemporaneous lives of Vietnamese child migrants, which will make a significant contribution to the discourse on transnational childhood, migration, and belonging for refugees and migrants in the twenty-first century.

Keywordsimmigration; Australia; Vietnam; diaspora; migrants
ISBN9780367770549
9780367770525
9781003169574
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003169574
Scopus EID2-s2.0-85138041131
Publisher's version
License
All rights reserved
File Access Level
Controlled
Output statusPublished
Publication dates
Print2022
Online16 Sep 2022
Publication process dates
Deposited23 Jun 2023
Year2023
PublisherRoutledge
Place of publicationLondon, United Kingdom
Permalink -

https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8z2z9/vietnamese-migrants-in-australia-and-the-global-digital-diaspora-histories-of-childhood-forced-migration-and-belonging

Restricted files

Publisher's version

  • 75
    total views
  • 0
    total downloads
  • 2
    views this month
  • 0
    downloads this month
These values are for the period from 19th October 2020, when this repository was created.

Export as

Related outputs

Refiguring Refugee Resistance and Vulnerabilities : Hazara Community Publishing in the Australian Resettlement Context
Choi, Julie, Tomsic, Mary and Nguyen, Anh. (2023). Refiguring Refugee Resistance and Vulnerabilities : Hazara Community Publishing in the Australian Resettlement Context. Journal of Intercultural Studies. pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2023.2259816
Forced migration, oceanic humanitarianism, and the paradox of danger and saviour of a Vietnamese refugee boat journey
Damousi, Joy, Nelli, Filippo, Nguyen Austen, Anh, Toffoli, Alessandro and Tomsic, Mary. (2022). Forced migration, oceanic humanitarianism, and the paradox of danger and saviour of a Vietnamese refugee boat journey. The Historical Journal. 65(2), pp. 505-526. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X21000595