Phi Hong Su
Biographic Data
| ID | 93004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phi Hong Su |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phi Hong |
| FAMILY NAME | Su |
| SIGNATURE | SU P H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-9521-7605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora , edited by Nathalie Huỳnh Châu Nguyễn
Contested membership
Pandemics refract sociopolitical tensions within societies and highlight how national belonging hinges on informal performances as much as legal status. While return migration has become a common practice and institutionalized strategy of state development, little scholarly work has probed how domestic populations view returnees and their claims to national membership. Using a large-scale, pre-registered online survey experiment deploying a give-…
Discomforting surplus
As sisters and sociologists, we shared an unnerving experience of sexual harassment in one of our preliminary field sites. Our research pursuits split thereafter, with one of us leaning into questions of gender and sexuality and the other steering clear. Despite our diverging interests, we both encountered discomforting moments that raise questions about what data we render surplus in our analysis. In this article, we draw on ethnographic and int…
The Militarized Imagined Family
After the end of war in Vietnam, Vietnamese Americans debate the balance between artistic freedom and Cold War politics. How do community arts organizers continue their work after anticommunist backlash? To answer this, I conducted participant observation and interviews with organizers of the Vietnamese International Film Festival in California. I analyze how children of refugees inherit the legacies of war outside of the family setting. Through …
Competing contexts of reception in refugee and immigrant incorporation
Scholars have long recognised the importance of contexts of reception in shaping the integration of immigrants and refugees in a host society. Studies of refugees, in particular, have examined groups where the different dimensions of reception (government, labour market, and ethnic community) have been largely positive. How important is this merging of positive contexts across dimensions of reception? We address this through a comparative study o…
Invisible, successful, and divided
Until the 1970s, only 1000 Vietnamese lived in West and East Germany, most of them international students. West Germany, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around 35,000 “boat people” from Viet Nam and other countries in South East Asia, who arrived as part of a contingent quota admission. Their entry led to new strategies for integration, including obligatory language…
Party identification and the immigrant cohort hypothesis
Party identification has long been considered a key marker of political incorporation. Yet, there remains substantial room in extant scholarship for a compelling portrait of how and when members of immigrant groups decide to affiliate with either of the two dominant political parties in the U.S., versus remaining non-partisan. Using the case of Vietnamese Americans and multivariate regression analyses of the 2008 National Asian American Survey (N…
There’s No Solidarity”
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 reunited factions of not just one, but two formerly divided countries: Germany and Vietnam. Utilizing this theoretically unique case of Vietnamese refugee and immigrant resettlement in Germany, I ask: How do ethnic Vietnamese individuals’ perceptions of coethnics complicate or reinforce social divisions? This essay is based on participant-observation in various sites across Berlin and semi-structured, in-depth …
Competing contexts of reception in refugee and immigrant incorporation
Scholars have long recognised the importance of contexts of reception in shaping the integration of immigrants and refugees in a host society. Studies of refugees, in particular, have examined groups where the different dimensions of reception (government, labour market, and ethnic community) have been largely positive. How important is this merging of positive contexts across dimensions of reception? We address this through a comparative study o…
Discomforting surplus
As sisters and sociologists, we shared an unnerving experience of sexual harassment in one of our preliminary field sites. Our research pursuits split thereafter, with one of us leaning into questions of gender and sexuality and the other steering clear. Despite our diverging interests, we both encountered discomforting moments that raise questions about what data we render surplus in our analysis. In this article, we draw on ethnographic and int…
Party identification and the immigrant cohort hypothesis
Party identification has long been considered a key marker of political incorporation. Yet, there remains substantial room in extant scholarship for a compelling portrait of how and when members of immigrant groups decide to affiliate with either of the two dominant political parties in the U.S., versus remaining non-partisan. Using the case of Vietnamese Americans and multivariate regression analyses of the 2008 National Asian American Survey (N…
There’s No Solidarity”
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 reunited factions of not just one, but two formerly divided countries: Germany and Vietnam. Utilizing this theoretically unique case of Vietnamese refugee and immigrant resettlement in Germany, I ask: How do ethnic Vietnamese individuals’ perceptions of coethnics complicate or reinforce social divisions? This essay is based on participant-observation in various sites across Berlin and semi-structured, in-depth …
Party identification and the immigrant cohort hypothesis
Party identification has long been considered a key marker of political incorporation. Yet, there remains substantial room in extant scholarship for a compelling portrait of how and when members of immigrant groups decide to affiliate with either of the two dominant political parties in the U.S., versus remaining non-partisan. Using the case of Vietnamese Americans and multivariate regression analyses of the 2008 National Asian American Survey (N…
There’s No Solidarity”
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 reunited factions of not just one, but two formerly divided countries: Germany and Vietnam. Utilizing this theoretically unique case of Vietnamese refugee and immigrant resettlement in Germany, I ask: How do ethnic Vietnamese individuals’ perceptions of coethnics complicate or reinforce social divisions? This essay is based on participant-observation in various sites across Berlin and semi-structured, in-depth …
Invisible, successful, and divided
Until the 1970s, only 1000 Vietnamese lived in West and East Germany, most of them international students. West Germany, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around 35,000 “boat people” from Viet Nam and other countries in South East Asia, who arrived as part of a contingent quota admission. Their entry led to new strategies for integration, including obligatory language…
The Militarized Imagined Family
After the end of war in Vietnam, Vietnamese Americans debate the balance between artistic freedom and Cold War politics. How do community arts organizers continue their work after anticommunist backlash? To answer this, I conducted participant observation and interviews with organizers of the Vietnamese International Film Festival in California. I analyze how children of refugees inherit the legacies of war outside of the family setting. Through …
Competing contexts of reception in refugee and immigrant incorporation
Scholars have long recognised the importance of contexts of reception in shaping the integration of immigrants and refugees in a host society. Studies of refugees, in particular, have examined groups where the different dimensions of reception (government, labour market, and ethnic community) have been largely positive. How important is this merging of positive contexts across dimensions of reception? We address this through a comparative study o…
Discomforting surplus
As sisters and sociologists, we shared an unnerving experience of sexual harassment in one of our preliminary field sites. Our research pursuits split thereafter, with one of us leaning into questions of gender and sexuality and the other steering clear. Despite our diverging interests, we both encountered discomforting moments that raise questions about what data we render surplus in our analysis. In this article, we draw on ethnographic and int…
Contested membership
Pandemics refract sociopolitical tensions within societies and highlight how national belonging hinges on informal performances as much as legal status. While return migration has become a common practice and institutionalized strategy of state development, little scholarly work has probed how domestic populations view returnees and their claims to national membership. Using a large-scale, pre-registered online survey experiment deploying a give-…
Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora , edited by Nathalie Huỳnh Châu Nguyễn
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Vietnamese (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Immigration (4 works)