000004218 001__ 4218 000004218 005__ 20251007025207.0 000004218 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.6082/uchicago.4218 000004218 037__ $$aTHESIS$$bThesis 000004218 041__ $$aeng 000004218 245__ $$aTroubled Refuge: Southeast Asian Resettlement and the Carceral Empire 000004218 260__ $$bUniversity of Chicago 000004218 269__ $$a2022-08 000004218 336__ $$aThesis 000004218 502__ $$bM.A. 000004218 520__ $$aDiscourses on Southeast Asian refugees in the United States commonly depict resettlement as deliverance from the perils of war, persecution, and displacement. However, a closer look at the realities of resettlement reveals systemic poverty, criminalization, and racialized violence for many Southeast Asian refugees and second generation youth. Through a historical lens, this thesis poses questions about the confluence of policing, imperial warfare, and Southeast Asian resettlement into the U.S. in the post-Vietnam War era. In light of a contemporary Southeast Asian criminal deportation crisis, I excavate entangled histories of racial violence on both imperial and domestic fronts–arguing that Southeast Asian resettlement onto American soil is an extension of imperial warfare rather than purported “refuge” from it. In unsettling the discourses and realities of resettlement, this essay contributes to the field of critical refugee studies by connecting contemporary issues of mass incarceration and criminal deportation to histories of racialized policing, border regimes, and American imperialism that fundamentally produced precarious conditions for Southeast Asian refugee subjectivities. 000004218 540__ $$a© 2022 Kacey Van di Nguyen 000004218 6531_ $$arefugees 000004218 6531_ $$aresettlement 000004218 6531_ $$aSoutheast Asian 000004218 6531_ $$apolicing 000004218 6531_ $$acrimmigration 000004218 6531_ $$aincarceration 000004218 6531_ $$aborder regime 000004218 6531_ $$aempire 000004218 690__ $$aSocial Sciences Division 000004218 691__ $$aMA Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) 000004218 7001_ $$aNguyen, Kacey$$uUniversity of Chicago 000004218 72012 $$aJulian Go 000004218 72014 $$aMary Elena Wilhoit 000004218 8564_ $$94338e23f-a716-424a-8187-47f6ac2488cd$$s13460425$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4218/files/Nguyen%2C%20Kacey%20Van%20di%20-%20Troubled%20Refuge.pdf$$erestricted 000004218 908__ $$aI agree 000004218 909CO $$ooai:uchicago.tind.io:4218$$pTheses$$pGLOBAL_SET 000004218 983__ $$aThesis