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Legacy of Cold War logics: Vietnamese Canadians integrated as enduring refugees CARFMS 2012

Legacy of Cold War logics: Vietnamese Canadians integrated as enduring refugees CARFMS 2012. Anh Ngo PhD Student, School of Social Work York University May 18, 2012. Overview.

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Legacy of Cold War logics: Vietnamese Canadians integrated as enduring refugees CARFMS 2012

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  1. Legacy of Cold War logics: Vietnamese Canadians integrated as enduring refugees CARFMS 2012 Anh Ngo PhD Student, School of Social Work York University May 18, 2012

  2. Overview • Refugee integration as a project of knowledge production informed by Cold war politics with lasting impact on how the refugees represent themselves within Canada • Theoretical lens: Foucaultian, Postcolonialism • Method: Discourse analysis of literature during 1980s-1990s, community participant observations

  3. Cold War Politics Jodi Kim (2010) • “Cold war as an entrenched production of knowledge has shaped how Americans narrate this history of military intervention and how Korean and Asian Americans have come to know their very selves” • “how it continues to generate and teach ‘new’ knowledge by making sense of the world through the Manichean logics and grammars of good and evil” Yen Le Espiritu (2006) • Justification of intervention in order to liberate others from evil regimes • “we-win-even-when-we-lose” syndrome

  4. Canada and the hot war in Vietnam • Canada as the “middle power” • International Control Commission (ICC) member to monitor compliance with the Geneva Accord’s ceasefire agreement • US ally • Canada as refuge for American war resisters • Canada as refugee accepting nation that allows for permanent settlement

  5. Representation of Refugees • Exceptionalism • Proper flight • Victim of communism

  6. Representation of Canada • Generous and benevolent • Multiculturalism • White settler colonial nation

  7. Impacts on Vietnamese Integration • Anti-communist • Model refugees to model multicultural minorities • United community

  8. So What?: Knowing Refugees • Canada’s desire to integrate Vietnamese refugees as particular social political subjects has impacted this community’s understanding of themselves and contributed to community conflicts • Integration for who/ what?  

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