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Title: Vietnamese Americans and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: The Grassroots Lobby Takes on the Corporatized State
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: This chapter is about how the conflict between Vietnamese Americans and the SRVN has unfolded in Washington and around the world and the strategies that grassroots activists have used to gain support for their broad and ambitious agenda: democratization in Vietnam. I begin with a brief history of the Vietnamese diaspora, giving emphasis to the stages of politicization of the American community and the changing, as well as paradoxical, nature of its relationship with the SRVN. I then turn to five elements that feature in the groups grassroots lobby, focusing on the ways in which organizations, demonstrations, elections, money, and media forge to contest the SRVN in public spaces, symbolically and sometimes literally. Following this, I move to an analysis of the outcomes of these efforts, 3 looking at 382 pieces of legislation before Congress between 1981 and 2014 for evidence of Vietnamese American or SRVN influence. I conclude with a reflection on the findings.
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Authors: Collet, Christian
Editors: Thurber, ; Campbell, ; Dulio,
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Volume Title: Ethnic Lobbying in Congress
Publisher: SUNY Press
Publisher Location: Albany, NY
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Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity
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