Works on the Vietnamese in Thailand

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 2:57 PM Erik Harms wrote:

Dear VSG Colleagues,

An undergraduate student of mine is interested in learning more about the community of Vietnamese living in the Isan region of Thailand. The student writes:

Concerning the Vietnamese diasporic experience, I would like to know more about the ethnic Vietnamese who now reside in Isan (Vietnamese Thais). Ethnic Vietnamese have been immigrating and/or fleeing to Thailand as far back as the Ayutthaya Dynasty and the Nguyễn lords. Ethnic Vietnamese over the centuries came in multiple waves: they came either to escape persecution, to seek refuge, or to find a better life for themselves and their families. I want to find out more about their experiences and what it means to be a minority in a minority so to speak (There is a history of Thai Isan marginalization/discrimination, and that could have also extended to the Vietnamese Thais). How do Vietnamese Thais feel about their new "homeland"? What does it mean to reside in the "borderlands" of the Thai nation state? How do undocumented Vietnamse migrant workers naviagate the liminal space of blue collar employment?

I too would love to learn of any sources and will share them with the student, who is hoping to use the summer months to read up on the topic. I will share the same question on the TLC list serve.

best wishes,

Erik

Erik Harms

Anthropology

Yale U

Dear VSG Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who replied on and off list to my student's query about the Vietnamese community in Thailand.

The student has compiled all the sources mentioned in the many emails into a full bibliography, which I paste below.

best wishes,

Erik

Bibliography of Works on the Vietnamese in Thailand

(including background works and works with minor references to the topic)

Based on suggestions from the Vietnam Studies Group and Thailand Laos Cambodia Group

Beemer, Bryce. 2016. “Bangkok, Creole City: War Slaves, Refugees, and the Transformation of

Culture in Urban Southeast Asia.” Literature Compass 13 (5): 266–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12310.

Boontawee, Kampoon. 1988. A Child of the Northeast. Translated by Susan Fulop Kepner.

Bangkok: Editions Duangkamol. https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/944240?counter=1.

Chandler, David, Norman G. Owen, William R. Roff, David Joel Steinberg, Jean Gelman

Taylor, Robert H. Taylor, Alexander Woodside, and David K. Wyatt. 2005. The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History. Edited by Norman G. Owen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Denes, Alexandra. 2015. “Folklorizing Northern Khmer Identity in Thailand: Intangible Cultural

Heritage and the Production of ‘Good Culture.’” Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 30 (1): 1–34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24779828.

Good, Jennifer, Paul Lowe, Brigitte Lardinois, Val Williams, Jennifer Good, and Paul Lowe.

2014. Mythologizing the Vietnam War: Visual Culture and Mediated Memory. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UNKNOWN: Cambridge Scholars Publisher. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/yale-ebooks/detail.action?docID=2076841.

Goscha, Christopher E. 1999. Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese

Revolution, 1885-1954. Richmond: Curzon Press.

Gunn, Geoffrey C. c1998. Theravadins, Colonialists, and Commissars in Laos /. Bangkok,

Thailand: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041705461.

Hardy, Andrew. 2016. “New European–Southeast Asian Research on the Region: Conclusions of

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Lefferts, Leedom. 2005. “Sticky Rice, Fermented Fish, and the Course of a Kingdom: The

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Malarney, Shaun Kingsley. 1993. Ritual and Revolution in Viet Nam. 2002. Culture, Ritual and

Revolution in Vietnam. London: Routledge Curzon 2007. “Festivals and the Dynamics of the Exceptional Dead in Northern Vietnam.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 38 (3): 515–32.

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A171295978/AONE?u=29002&sid=zotero&xid=5b69f72b.

Miller, Terry E. 2005. “From Country Hick to Rural Hip: A New Identity Through Music for

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https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2005.0014.

Nguyen, Huong Ngoc, Melissa Hardesty, and Khuat Thu Hong. 2013. “‘I Am Tired But If I

Don’t Try to Have Sex, My Wife Will Think I’ve Been Fooling around in the City’:

Work, Migration, and Sex Among Vietnamese Migrant Laborers.” Journal of Sex Research 50 (6): 548–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2012.663419.

Nguyen, Huong, Cheng-Shi Shiu, and Melissa Hardesty. 2016. “Extramarital Sex Among

Vietnamese Married Men: Results of a Survey in Urban and Rural Areas of Northern and Southern Vietnam.” Journal of Sex Research 53 (9): 1065–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2015.1104287.

Ouyyanont, Porphant. 2017. “Thailand’s Northeast ‘Problem’ in Historical Perspective.”

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015002352329.

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1940-1944.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 42 (1): 59–87. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A249058029/AONE?u=29002&sid=zotero&xid=39ddb79c. n.d. “The Lost Territories: Thailand’s History of National Humiliation,” 24. https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1494284.

Sucharithanarugse, Witthaya, ed. 2015. “Luang Prabang and Bangkok: A 19th Century

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Tejapira, Kasian. 2018. “Pigtail: A Pre-History of Chineseness in Siam.” Sojourn: Journal of

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