After Saigon's Fall: Refugees and Us-Vietnamese Relations, 1975-2000 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108488389)

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.

Author: Amanda C. Demmer
ISBN-10: 1108488382
ISBN-13: 9781108488389
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2021
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d