"Courageous and fiercely argued, Unsettled... brings to light the political ecology of a community that has survived war, genocide, and displacement and is now struggling to remake the Bronx hyperghetto, exposing in the process the ‘impossible’ condition that may be the fate of all refugee communities in the neoliberal city."
—JUNOT DÍAZ
"Courageous and fiercely argued, Unsettled... brings to light the political ecology of a community that has survived war, genocide, and displacement and is now struggling to remake the Bronx hyperghetto, exposing in the process the ‘impossible’ condition that may be the fate of all refugee communities in the neoliberal city."
—JUNOT DÍAZ
“A description of uprooting, captivity, poverty, displacement, and fugitivity—and the ever elusive project of ‘arrival.”
—LISA LOWE
Professor of English and American Studies, Tufts University
“A description of uprooting, captivity, poverty, displacement, and fugitivity—and the ever elusive project of ‘arrival.”
—LISA LOWE
Professor of English and American Studies, Tufts University
“An outstanding example of engaged scholarship that will inspire new understandings about the movement of people and...contested spaces. Tang’s riveting account of struggle, change, and resistance is a remarkable achievement.”
—BETH RITCHIE
Professor of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
“An outstanding example of engaged scholarship that will inspire new understandings about the movement of people and...contested spaces. Tang’s riveting account of struggle, change, and resistance is a remarkable achievement.”
—BETH RITCHIE
Professor of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
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"The book contributes to the debate about the extent of socioeconomic advancement by Southeast Asian refugees in the US. Tang argues that these refugees experience the same extreme inequality as African Americans. The book supports this argument with a riveting, cinematic account of the hardships experienced by one Cambodian woman and her children...Summing Up: Recommended."
—CHOICE