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Keeping Up with the Nguyens: When Poor Immigrants Return to the Homeland

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This lecture focuses on the social and personal sides of monetary flows in the Vietnamese diaspora. With few exceptions, the private use of money has been considered too personal and too mysterious for migration scholars to tackle, unless they examine “development issues,” such as daily household expenditures. Prof. Hung Cam Thai will focus on low-wage … Read more

Someone Else’s War

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In the background of the war in Iraq is an invisible army. It is an army that numbers more than 30,000, yet few Americans have ever seen or heard them. They are low wage workers imported from South and Southeast Asia to cook food, wash laundry, and deliver fuel. They are what the military calls … Read more