Returns of war: South Vietnam and the price of refugee memory

Introduction

Archival others : the Vietnamese as absent presence in the historical record

Refugee assets : the political reeducation of personal trauma and family bonds

Dismembered lives : the fractured body politics of the "Little Saigon" community

Militarized freedoms : Vietnamese American soldiers fighting "future Vietnams"

Empire's residuals : the return migration of former exiles to globalizing Vietnam

Epilogue.