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Vietnamese Diasporic Citizenship

Sutherland, Claire

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Authors

Claire Sutherland



Contributors

E. Isin
Editor

P. Nyers
Editor

Abstract

This chapter explores diaspora citizenship through the case of Vietnam. There, as elsewhere, nationality – in the strict sense of national belonging – is so closely bound up with citizenship and naturalization that citizenship can be considered the legal expression of national belonging (Sutherland 2012a ). In the Southeast Asian context, the practical and spiritual connotations of nationality and citizenship are very wide-ranging, as is evidenced in the anthropological work of Aihwa Ong ( 1999 ) and Kate Jellema ( 2007 ) among others. Jellema ( 2007 , 70) has used the term ‘kinetic nationalism’ to describe the Vietnamese state’s readiness to countenance the long-distance belonging and periodic return of its diaspora as part of its nation-building project, one which is increasingly premised on the shared practice of ancestor worship as a source of national solidarity. This marks a new departure in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s (SRV) positioning of citizenship to appeal to its diaspora, and a greater readiness among some members of that diaspora to engage with an ideological foe. Vietnamese citizenship is thus clearly a site of struggle over its ideological, religious, and ethnic parameters. The following chapter uses the concepts of territory, ideology, and solidarity to illuminate different facets of citizenship in the Vietnamese case.

Citation

Sutherland, C. (2014). Vietnamese Diasporic Citizenship. In E. Isin, & P. Nyers (Eds.), Routledge handbook of global citizenship studies (522-531). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203102015.ch47

Online Publication Date Jun 27, 2014
Publication Date Jun 27, 2014
Deposit Date Sep 10, 2014
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Routledge
Pages 522-531
Series Title Routledge international handbooks
Book Title Routledge handbook of global citizenship studies.
Chapter Number 47
ISBN 9780415519724
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203102015.ch47
Publisher URL https://www.routledge.com/9780415519724/

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