Based on YCAR's 2015 Asia Lecture, our latest Asia Colloquia Paper  by Yen Le Espiritu examines how military colonialism in the Asia Pacific region enabled the construction of the United States as a "refuge" for Vietnamese refugees.  Using the example of the Vietnam war, she elaborates on her conceptualization of "militarized refuge" to show how U.S. imperialism works to construct narratives of war and refuge.

Read the full paper here https://yorku.ca/research/ycar/vietnam-the-philippines-guam-and-california-connecting-the-dots-of-u-s-military-empire/