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

Author
Demmer, Amanda C. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  • ©2021
Description
ix, 318 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

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    Cambridge studies in US foreign relations [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Few historians of the Vietnam War have covered the post-1975 era or engaged comprehensively with refugee politics, humanitarianism, and human rights as defining issues of the period. After Saigon's Fall is the first major work to uncover this history. Amanda C. Demmer offers a new account of the post-War normalization of US-Vietnam relations by centering three major transformations of the late twentieth century: the reassertion of the 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. Using previously untapped archives to recover a riveting narrative with both policymakers and nonstate advocates at its center, Demmer's book also reveals much about US politics and society in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Part I: 1975-1980 : 1. The fall of Saigon
    • 2. Human rights, refugees, and normalization
    • Part II: 1980-1989 : 3. Expanding the US agenda
    • 4. Cooperation on humanitarian issues
    • Part III: 1989-2000 : 5. Refugees and the roadmap
    • 6. Humanitarian issues, human rights, and ongoing normalization
    • Conclusion.
    Other title(s)
    Refugees and US-Vietnamese relations, 1975-2000
    ISBN
    • 9781108488389 ((hardback))
    • 1108488382 ((hardback))
    • 9781108726276 ((paperback))
    • 1108726275 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2020052342
    OCLC
    • 1224161123
    • 1224041958
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