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America's suburbs are more diverse and more unequal than ever before. Focusing on Southern California's Little Saigon, a global suburb and the capital of "Vietnamese America," Jennifer 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.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 252
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
11 March 2025
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520403895
Format: Hardcover
“Challenges the myth of suburban homogeneity. Orange County . . . is undergoing demographic change. . . The county was nearly 90% White in 1970, but is now more than two-thirds non-White with a large and growing Vietnamese American population. The book focuses on Little Saigon, which stretches across six cities, and is considered the capital of Vietnamese America.”
Jennifer Huynh is a sociologist and Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is second-generation Vietnamese from Southern California.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Suburban Refugees
1 • The Right to Placemaking
2 • The Right to Home
3 • The Right to Organize
4 • The Right to the Suburb
Conclusion: Suburban Organizing Playbook
Appendix: A Personal Note on Methods
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Suburban Refugees
1 • The Right to Placemaking
2 • The Right to Home
3 • The Right to Organize
4 • The Right to the Suburb
Conclusion: Suburban Organizing Playbook
Appendix: A Personal Note on Methods
Notes
References
Index