Unsettling Refugees: Vietnamese Refugees Fighting Gentrification in America's Suburbs 

October 23, Thursday, 12-1pm 

AAARCC (915 5th St)

Cannot join in-person? Zoom stream available: bit.ly/aaarcc-speaker 

Author Bio: Jennifer Huynh is a sociologist and an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Suburban Refugees: Class and Resistance in Little Saigon (University of California Press, 2025). She is on the editorial board for American Quarterly, and her next book project is a comparative study of Southeast Asian deportation. She is a first generation college student from Southern California.  

This guest speaker series is generously co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies program and Southeast Asia in the Midwest Initiative. 

Flyer: https://aaarcc.short.gy/speaker1023 

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