Jennifer Huynh’s Suburban Refugees: Class and Resistance in Little Saigon (University of California Press) explores the dynamics of one of America’s most diverse yet unequal suburbs. Focusing on Southern California's Little Saigon, a global suburb and the capital of "Vietnamese America," Huynh shows how refugees and their children are enacting placemaking against forces of displacement such as financialized capital, exclusionary zoning, and the criminalization of migrants. This book raises crucial questions challenging suburban inequality and complicates our understanding of refugee resettlement—and, more broadly, the American dream.
Jennifer Huynh is an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, a faculty fellow of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. She is affiliated faculty to Notre Dame's Initiative on Race and Resilience. Huynh teaches courses in Asian American Studies, Immigration, and Refugee Studies. Huynh earned her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D from Princeton University. She is the recipient of the Grenville Clark Award, an award given to a faculty member whose voluntary activities advance the cause of peace and human rights, and her current research is supported by the Russell Sage Foundation. She is a first-generation college student from Southern California.
Sponsored by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies and the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, both part of the Keough School of Global Affairs.
Originally published at asia.nd.edu.