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Currencies of imagination : channeling money and chasing mobility in Vietnam /

This book examines the sociocultural dynamics of migration and remittance flows between Vietnam and the United States since 1975.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Small, Ivan Victor, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Vietnamese > United States > Economic conditions.
Vietnamese > United States > Social conditions.
Emigrant remittances > Vietnam.
Vietnam > Economic conditions > 1975-
Immigrants > Family relationships > Vietnam.
Immigrants > Family relationships > United States.
Money > Social aspects > Vietnam.
Money > Social aspects > United States.
Families > Economic aspects > Vietnam.
Families > Economic aspects > United States.
Transnationalism > Social aspects > United States.
Transnationalism > Social aspects > Vietnam.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: money, gifts, and flows
  • The dangerous gift
  • Saigon, overlaid by Ho Chi Minh : capitalist desires and deferrals
  • Coastal flows & hypothetical horizons
  • The beautiful, tired country
  • Crossing the bridge home
  • Conclusion : not yet enough : mobility and its malcontents.