Title After Saigon's fall : refugees and US-Vietnamese relations, 1975-2000 / Amanda C. Demmer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 318 pages) Series Cambridge studies in US foreign relations Cambridge studies in US foreign relations. Contents The fall of Saigon -- Human rights, refugees, and normalization -- Expanding the US agenda -- US-SRV cooperation -- Refugees and the road map -- Humanitarian issues, human rights, and ongoing normalization -- Conclusion Summary "This book traces the American approach to normalization with Vietnam after 1975. It argues understanding the resumption of officials ties between Washington and Hanoi requires centering the migration programs that brought over one million South Vietnamese to the United States. These processes were not merely simultaneous, they were mutually constitutive. Negotiating and implementing migration programs for South Vietnamese became the basis of normalization between Washington and Hanoi. Rather than a moment, something that occurred instantaneously with the announcement of resumed relations, normalization was a highly contentious, often contradictory process where nonexecutive actors played crucial roles. A close examination of the American approach to US-SRV normalization sheds light not only on the vitally important postwar reconciliation process, but also helps us better understand three major transformations of the late twentieth century: the reassertion of US Congress in American foreign policy; the Indochinese diaspora and changing domestic and international refugee norms; and, the intertwining of humanitarianism and the human rights movement. By tracing these domestic, regional, and global phenomena, After Saigon's Fall captures the contingencies and contradictions inherent in US-Vietnamese normalization and also reveals much about US politics and society in last quarter of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2021) Subject Refugees -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century Refugees -- United States -- History -- 20th century Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Refugees Diplomatic relations. Emigration and immigration. Refugees. SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States Vietnam -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century Subject United States. Vietnam. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2020052343 ISBN 9781108770354 1108770355

Other Titles Refugees and US-Vietnamese relations, 1975-2000

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