ASIA AM 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operation Frequent Wind, United Nations General Assembly, Vietnamese Boat People
30 Mar 2021
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Phoebe story: she falls in love with sam and. That"s what a boat person must feel like - bereft. Boat person : refers to her sense of loss and break up. We imagine an unending state of loss - culture, language. Vietnam in pop culture today = revisit of a nightmare in history. How we come to understand a refugee as a stateless person displaced from his/her natural homeland, and thus suffering from loss (of home, nation, culture, national identity) But there wasn"t proto refugee figure as there weren"t proto nation states. Emergence of this understanding about refugees could be attributed to practices at 2 particular moments: post wwii moment in europe: Refugee camp as standardized, generalized technology of mass movement management. Military model (displaced person branch the supreme headquarters of allied expeditionary force - shaef) Gamut of surveillance panoptic technology, including documentation that becomes basis of knowledge about refugees. Everyone is assigned to a tent in a camp.
