Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar
Biographic Data
| ID | 147226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mytoan |
| FAMILY NAME | Nguyen-Akbar |
| SIGNATURE | NGUYEN-AKBAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Formation of Spatial and Symbolic Boundaries among Vietnamese Diasporic Skilled Return Migrants in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
More than 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War, a younger generation of Vietnamese Americans is returning to their parents' ancestral homeland with career opportunities tied to Vietnam's economic growth in the past decade. These more permanent return migrations reveal strategies of local and global assertions of belonging and identity management among the '1.5' and second generation of Vietnamese Americans who work in high-skilled profession…
Finding the American Dream Abroad? Narratives of Return Among 1.5 and Second Generation Vietnamese American Skilled Migrants in Vietnam
This essay, using multi-sited ethnographic methods, discusses the motivations for the en masse longer-term migration of 1.5 and second generation Vietnamese American professionals to their parents’ ancestral homeland during the 2000s. Social class dynamics, gender, racial, and national identity in the United States and migrant selectivity inform their decisions to migrate to the ancestral homeland for personal growth and to help develop the count…
The Tensions of Diasporic 'Return' Migration: How Class and Money Create Distance in the Vietnamese Transnational Family
Propelled by the globalization of work opportunities in the Global South, thousands of Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese) 1.5- and second-generation migrants are "returning" to Vietnam to find skilled work. Through a global ethnography in urban Ho Chi Minh City, this article illustrates how these diasporic "returnees" negotiate their contentious relationship with their nonmigrating, often poorer extended family. My research contributes to the migran…
The Tensions of Diasporic 'Return' Migration: How Class and Money Create Distance in the Vietnamese Transnational Family
Propelled by the globalization of work opportunities in the Global South, thousands of Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese) 1.5- and second-generation migrants are "returning" to Vietnam to find skilled work. Through a global ethnography in urban Ho Chi Minh City, this article illustrates how these diasporic "returnees" negotiate their contentious relationship with their nonmigrating, often poorer extended family. My research contributes to the migran…
The Formation of Spatial and Symbolic Boundaries among Vietnamese Diasporic Skilled Return Migrants in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
More than 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War, a younger generation of Vietnamese Americans is returning to their parents' ancestral homeland with career opportunities tied to Vietnam's economic growth in the past decade. These more permanent return migrations reveal strategies of local and global assertions of belonging and identity management among the '1.5' and second generation of Vietnamese Americans who work in high-skilled profession…
Finding the American Dream Abroad? Narratives of Return Among 1.5 and Second Generation Vietnamese American Skilled Migrants in Vietnam
This essay, using multi-sited ethnographic methods, discusses the motivations for the en masse longer-term migration of 1.5 and second generation Vietnamese American professionals to their parents’ ancestral homeland during the 2000s. Social class dynamics, gender, racial, and national identity in the United States and migrant selectivity inform their decisions to migrate to the ancestral homeland for personal growth and to help develop the count…
The Tensions of Diasporic 'Return' Migration: How Class and Money Create Distance in the Vietnamese Transnational Family
Propelled by the globalization of work opportunities in the Global South, thousands of Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese) 1.5- and second-generation migrants are "returning" to Vietnam to find skilled work. Through a global ethnography in urban Ho Chi Minh City, this article illustrates how these diasporic "returnees" negotiate their contentious relationship with their nonmigrating, often poorer extended family. My research contributes to the migran…
Finding the American Dream Abroad? Narratives of Return Among 1.5 and Second Generation Vietnamese American Skilled Migrants in Vietnam
This essay, using multi-sited ethnographic methods, discusses the motivations for the en masse longer-term migration of 1.5 and second generation Vietnamese American professionals to their parents’ ancestral homeland during the 2000s. Social class dynamics, gender, racial, and national identity in the United States and migrant selectivity inform their decisions to migrate to the ancestral homeland for personal growth and to help develop the count…
The Formation of Spatial and Symbolic Boundaries among Vietnamese Diasporic Skilled Return Migrants in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
More than 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War, a younger generation of Vietnamese Americans is returning to their parents' ancestral homeland with career opportunities tied to Vietnam's economic growth in the past decade. These more permanent return migrations reveal strategies of local and global assertions of belonging and identity management among the '1.5' and second generation of Vietnamese Americans who work in high-skilled profession…
Anthropology (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Vietnamese (3 works) · Ethnography (2 works)