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X-WR-CALNAME:The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nat
 ionalism in Berlin
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DESCRIPTION:Gatty Lecture Series\n\nJoin us for a talk by Phi Hong Su\, (As
 sistant Professor of Sociology\, Williams College)\, who will speak about 
 Vietnamese migrants in Berlin.\n\nThis Gatty Lecture will take place at th
 e Kahin Center\, but people are also welcome to join us on Zoom. Lunch wil
 l be served. For questions\, contact seapgatty@cornell.edu. \n\nParticipat
 e by Zoom here.\n\nAbout the Talk\n\nWhen the Berlin Wall fell\, Germany u
 nited in a wave of euphoria and solidarity. Also caught in the current wer
 e Vietnamese border crossers who had left their homeland after its reunifi
 cation in 1975. Unwilling to live under socialism\, one group resettled in
  West Berlin as refugees. In the name of socialist solidarity\, a second g
 roup arrived in East Berlin as contract workers. The Border Within paints 
 a vivid portrait of these disparate Vietnamese migrants' encounters with e
 ach other in the post-socialist city of Berlin. Journalists\, scholars\, a
 nd Vietnamese border crossers themselves consider these groups that left t
 heir homes under vastly different conditions to be one people\, linked by 
 an unquestionable ethnic nationhood. Phi Hong Su's rigorous ethnography un
 packs this intuition. In absorbing prose\, Su reveals how these Cold War c
 ompatriots enact palpable social boundaries in everyday life. This book un
 covers how 20th-century state formation and international migration—toge
 ther\, border crossings—generate enduring migrant classifications. In do
 ing so\, border crossings fracture shared ethnic\, national\, and religiou
 s identities in powerful ways.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nPhi Hong Su is Assi
 stant Professor of Sociology at Williams College. Previously\, she was a P
 ostdoctoral Research Associate in the Division of Social Science at New Yo
 rk University Abu Dhabi. She is interested in people on the move\, the und
 erstandings and convictions they carry with them across borders\, and how 
 these transform as folks rebuild home. In her research and teaching\, she 
 draws on these threads to think about im/mobilities\, intersectional ident
 ities\, and inequality.
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LOCATION:Kahin Center
SUMMARY:The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic National
 ism in Berlin
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 hin_vietnamese_migrants_transforming_ethnic_nationalism_in_berlin
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