Envisioning Vietnamese Migrants In Germany

Download or read book Envisioning Vietnamese Migrants in Germany written by Pipo Bui and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic stigma is the worst-case scenario for a migrant group, but migrants also cope with origin narratives and partial masking--two novel concepts introduced in this book. Parallel to the national narratives of natives, immigrant origin narratives by Vietnamese in Germany invoke and retrench the histories of East and West Germany and North and South Vietnam. By partially masking their identity as Chinese or Asian, Vietnamese entrepreneurs circumvent ethnic stigma and use their physiognomy to market exotic goods. Pipo Bui is researcher at Stanford University.