Suburban Refugees: Class and Resistance in Little Saigon - Hardcover

by Jennifer Huynh (Author)

America's suburbs are more diverse and more unequal than ever before. Focusing on Southern California's Little Saigon, a global suburb and the capital of "Vietnamese America," Jennifer Huynh shows how refugees and their children are enacting placemaking against forces of displacement such as financialized capital, exclusionary zoning, and the criminalization of migrants. This book raises crucial questions challenging suburban inequality and complicates our understanding of refugee resettlement--and, more broadly, the American dream.

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Keenly juxtaposes the immigrant 'success story' of Little Saigon in California against the tenuous experience of older, lower-income, and disabled residents fighting the corporatized gentrification of their community. I was blown away by the depth of the research and how Jennifer Huynh weaves together analyses of these interrelated issues and sociological dynamics across institutional and individual levels.--C.N. Le, faculty in Sociology and Director of the Asian & Asian American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Author Biography

Jennifer Huynh is a sociologist and Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is second-generation Vietnamese from Southern California.