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SUMMARY:Memory and Identity in Vietnamese Migrant Literature in Europe
LOCATION:Room 1.404
DESCRIPTION:Vietnamese people in Europe account for about one-fifth of the 
 overseas Vietnamese population with diverse groups. The Vietnamese group of
  students or workers in France during the period of French colonialism can 
 be considered as the first Vietnamese residing outside of Vietnam. The seco
 nd group of Vietnamese is the refugees who escaped from Communist in South 
 Vietnam in 1975. The former contract workers, who lived and worked mainly i
 n Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Berlin War in 1989 also made up 
 a significant number of the Vietnamese community in Europe. In addition, th
 e wave of Vietnamese students choosing Europe to study and work after gradu
 ation forms the intellectual Vietnamese community. Last but not least, the 
 group of Vietnamese arriving in Germany in the form of family reunion and o
 f political asylum contributed to the diversity of the Vietnamese community
  in Europe.\n\nCorresponding to the varied groups of the Vietnamese communi
 ty, Vietnamese literature in Europe has a clear distinction. The first lite
 rary sector, which was formed and developed in the late 1970s and early 198
 0s, is the literature of the refugees, or diaspora literature. The waves of
  Vietnamese migrants going overseas after 1990 for many reasons transformed
  the nature of Vietnamese migrant literature. From the starting point as th
 e literature of the refugees, the Vietnamese literature now has authors lea
 ving Vietnam but was not dissent with the communist government. For example
 , most works by authors as former contract workers focused on their lives i
 n host land, i.e their struggle with surviving and working in Europe. In co
 ntrast, writings by other groups of Vietnamese touched upon the spiritual l
 ives of migrants between two worlds, host land and homeland. In such an in-
 between-space, memory and identity of the migrants reflected through their 
 writings become the core issues in the quest for the significance of migran
 ts. The expression of memory in the migrants’ writings is not just the way 
 for the writers to reproduce a lost homeland in the past but also to the qu
 ery, thereby forming their identities in the future. By organizing this pan
 el, the convener seeks to provide a forum for the latest research in Vietna
 mese migrants literature in Europe. Presenters are welcomed to explicitly d
 iscuss the methodological and practical issues of memory and identity repre
 nted in Vietnamese migrants literature, such as the issues of collective me
 mory, cultural identity, hybridity or in-between-ness.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/memory-and-identity-in-vietnamese-migrant-literature-in-europe
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