Finding the American Dream Abroad? Narratives of Return Among 1.5 and Second Generation Vietnamese American Skilled Migrants in Vietnam

Bibliographic Data

ID12814151
AuthorsMytoan Nguyen-Akbar (corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume11
Issue2
Pages96-121
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Vietnamese Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1559-372X • E-ISSN: 1559-3738
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/jvs.2016.11.2.96
OpenAlexW2489262325
LanguageEN
Citations received6

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 country. The interviewees’ framing of return experiences reflects the social ambivalence of returning as “in between” subjects in pursuit of a liberal capitalist American Dream abroad

Ambivalence · Dream · Ethnography · Framing (construction · Homeland · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vietnamese · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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