A Displaced Nation: The 1954 Evacuation and Its Political Impact on the Vietnam Wars - Couverture souple

Nguyen, Phi-Van

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1501778617 ISBN 13 : 9781501778612

Editeur : Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, 2024

Synopsis

In A Displaced Nation, Phi-Van Nguyen argues that the displacement of eight hundred thousand mostly Roman Catholic evacuees from North Vietnam in 1954 had a profound impact on the war opposing Saigon on both Hanoi and on the evacuees themselves. Assisting with the transportation, emergency relief, and resettlement of the evacuees allowed diverse organizations and the United States to support Saigon. This transnational mobilization also convinced the evacuees the "free world" would never let Vietnam remain divided.

Many people see the Vietnam wars spanning from 1945 to 1989 as separate conflicts. But Nguyen demonstrates that the evacuees experienced a continuous civil war. A Displaced Nation shows the evacuees felt so validated by transnational support that they thought they could use this external help to return one day to the north. This belief was not constant nor were the strategies to achieve it the same for all, but through their political activism and action the evacuees showed they were willing to seize any opportunity to oppose Hanoi during the subsequent decades, even once established overseas.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Phi-Van Nguyen is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Saint-Boniface.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501778617
• ISBN 13: 9781501778612
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306
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• Personne responsable: non disponible