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Scars of War: The Politics of Paternity and Responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam de Sabrina Thomas

Scars of War: The Politics of Paternity and Responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies

Autor Sabrina Thomas Cuvânt înainte de Robert J. Mrazek
en Limba Engleză Hardback – dec 2021
Best First Book Award from the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta

Scars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers denying the Amerasians of Vietnam—the biracial sons and daughters of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers born during the Vietnam War—American citizenship. Focusing on the implications of the 1982 Amerasian Immigration Act and the 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act, Sabrina Thomas investigates why policymakers deemed a population unfit for American citizenship, despite the fact that they had American fathers.

Thomas argues that the exclusion of citizenship was a component of bigger issues confronting the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations: international relationships in a Cold War era, America’s defeat in the Vietnam War, and a history in the United States of racially restrictive immigration and citizenship policies against mixed-race persons and people of Asian descent.

Now more politically relevant than ever, Scars of War explores ideas of race, nation, and gender in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Thomas exposes the contradictory approach of policymakers unable to reconcile Amerasian biracialism with the U.S. Code. As they created an inclusionary discourse deeming Amerasians worthy of American action, guidance, and humanitarian aid, federal policymakers simultaneously initiated exclusionary policies that designated these people unfit for American citizenship.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781496200549
ISBN-10: 1496200543
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: Index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Borderlands and Transcultural Studies

Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Sabrina Thomas is an associate professor of history and David A. Moore Chair in American History at Wabash College. Robert J. Mrazek is a former U.S. congressman of New York.

Cuprins

Foreword by Robert J. Mrazek
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Introduction
1. Setting a Precedent
2. Saving Cold War Children
3. Becoming Refugees
4. Blood Politics
5. Window Dressing
6. The Amerasian Homecoming Act
7. “Like a Home without a Roof”
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
.

Recenzii

“A welcome addition to the growing body of research on the Amerasian issue and deserves a wide readership. It presents, for the first time, a thoroughly researched, comprehensive history of the Amerasian issues, thereby filling a significant research gap. For students and scholars alike, it will be an invaluable resource for exploring the politics of paternity and responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam. A better understanding of the Amerasian issue can contribute to the development of effective policies for children of foreign soldiers and local women in current and future conflicts and post-conflict regions.”—Lukas Schretter, Journal of Cold War Studies

“Rigorously researched, captivatingly written, and compellingly argued, Scars of War details the legislative process surrounding migration programs for Vietnamese Amerasians. Thomas offers keen insight into the ways ideas about war, race, gender, and nation intersect in American thought and law.”—Amanda C. Demmer, author of After Saigon’s Fall: Refugees and U.S.-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000

“Scars of War makes the important, nuanced assertion that the denial of paternity and parental responsibility has shaped the exercise of American empire in Asia. Many scholars and journalists have explored the history of Amerasians, but not with the thoroughness and singularity of focus that this author deploys.”—Allison Varzally, author of Children of Reunion: Vietnamese Adoptions and the Politics of Family Migrations

“Scars of War offers a new perspective that is important for understanding U.S. policy and also provides a window into the lives of marginalized people in Vietnam. It takes up complex issues of human rights and citizenship at a moment in world history when these problems are particularly visible and troubling.”—Karen Gottschang Turner, author of Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam

Descriere

Scars of War examines how the exclusion of mixed-race persons and people of Asian descent in the United States shaped the efforts of policymakers to recognize the Amerasians of Vietnam as American children and initiate legislation that designated them unfit for American citizenship.