Transpacific Decolonization: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and the Temporality of Settler Militarism on Guam - February 27, 2019

Event Date: 

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Event Contact: 

If you need assistance due to a disability, please contact Cora Danielson at cora@ucsb.edu or at 805.893.8039.

 During Operation New Life (April to November 1975), the U.S. military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam. Attending to the distinct permanent/transient temporality of settler militarism on Guam, this talk will first establish what I call the "refugee settler condition," then discuss potentials for transpacific solidarity between Vietnamese refugee settlers and native Chamorros in the face of ongoing decolonization struggles.
 
Evyn Lê Espiritu is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies in the Asian Studies Program at College of the Holy Cross. She received her PhD in Rhetoric with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory from UC Berkeley in 2018. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers in Guam and Israel-Palestine.