Archipelago of Resettlement

"This is a phenomenal book. Archipelago of Resettlement takes seriously the implication of Indigenous calls for place-based scholarship to refugee and migration studies and it ups the ante by engaging the accountabilities such calls demand. Gandhi exemplifies the possibilities of reading 'archipelagically' across Indigenous and Asian American studies, across settler colonies, and against US militarism and empire."--Jodi A Byrd, author of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism "Exploring with great rigor the refugee settlers' vexed relationship to Indigenous sovereignty, this strikingly original study demonstrates for us ways of knowing and connection otherwise--within, across, and beyond the incommensurable structural divides and multiple belongings. Deeply inspiring, Gandhi's archipelagic methodology elucidates compelling political possibilities for decolonial futures." --Lisa Yoneyama, author of Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes "This brilliant book interweaves archival research, site visits, and oral interviews to map and grapple with the entangled histories of Vietnamese refugee resettlement, Indigenous displacement in Guam and Palestine, and the settler colonialism of the United States and Israel. Throughout, an archipelagic epistemology of the 'nước' is poetically articulated, an inspiring vision that calls forth refugee futurity and decolonial solidarities."--Craig Santos Perez, author of Navigating CHamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization "Once dispersed across seemingly unconnected geographies of US empire, the aesthetic and archival sands, pebbles, and stones of the refugee settler condition are brilliantly gathered herein. The result is an archipelagic imaginary at once moved by and contributing to the confluence of today's most powerful decolonial currents."--Keith Feldman, author of A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America "A thought-provoking and truly original way of 'seeing' Vietnamese diasporic resettlement. Gandhi convincingly juxtaposes two numerically small and seemingly marginal populations and in the process raises universal questions of interest to scholars in refugee studies and US empire."--Jana K. Lipman, author of In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates