@article{THESIS,
      recid = {4218},
      author = {Nguyen, Kacey},
      title = {Troubled Refuge: Southeast Asian Resettlement and the  Carceral Empire},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2022-08},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Discourses on Southeast Asian refugees in the United  States commonly depict resettlement as deliverance from the  perils of war, persecution, and displacement. However, a  closer look at the realities of resettlement reveals  systemic poverty, criminalization, and racialized violence  for many Southeast Asian refugees and second generation  youth. Through a historical lens, this thesis poses  questions about the confluence of policing, imperial  warfare, and Southeast Asian resettlement into the U.S. in  the post-Vietnam War era. In light of a contemporary  Southeast Asian criminal deportation crisis, I excavate  entangled histories of racial violence on both imperial and  domestic fronts–arguing that Southeast Asian resettlement  onto American soil is an extension of imperial warfare  rather than purported “refuge” from it. In unsettling the  discourses and realities of resettlement, this essay  contributes to the field of critical refugee studies by  connecting contemporary issues of mass incarceration and  criminal deportation to histories of racialized policing,  border regimes, and American imperialism that fundamentally  produced precarious conditions for Southeast Asian refugee  subjectivities. },
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4218},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.4218},
}