About
ABOUT THE GLOBAL VIETNAMESE DIASPORA
This blog coincides with a course of the same title that I am teach at the University of Houston, usually in the fall semester.
Like the course, the blog hopes to facilitate and promote the study of the diasporas in Vietnamese history, as well as Vietnamese diasporas around the globe. The blog attempts to theorize and conceptualize the dimensions, the characterizations, and the trajectories of the diasporic Vietnamese experience across time and space. [1]
The blog includes a Global Vietnamese Diaspora Wiki as a way to facilitate the general knowledge of the overseas Vietnamese communities within and across (but not limited to) Canada, France, Australia, Germany, Norway, Australia, Czech Republic, Russia, Israel, Japan, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, United States, and the Philippines.
In many ways, reading and writing the diasporic Vietnamese experience are interrelated to my own personal and academic journeys to be “here and there” as well as how to rethink the “place” in my displacement.
This is to acknowledge my own social reality or interpretative prism of which may affect how I present this study. But it is my hope that this blog reveals more about the diasporic Vietnamese experience than it does about me.
Lastly, the blog will later include “Guest Contributors,” providing platform for diverse views and perspectives regarding the blog’s subject.
Sincerely,
[1] There will be academic articles that I will post for further readings but the posting of these articles are solely for educational purposes.
[2] I am currently a visiting assistant professor and also the director of international initiatives for the Global Studies Program at the University of Houston. At the same campus, I have been a part of a team, trying to establish a Vietnamese Studies program where I served as a coordinator/lecturer.
