柏林墙倒塌后，德国团结一致，欢欣鼓舞。越南1975年统一后离开祖国的越境者也陷入了当前的困境。由于不愿生活在社会主义制度下，一批人在西柏林重新定居，成为难民。以社会主义团结的名义，第二批人作为合同工抵达东柏林。边境线生动地描绘了这些截然不同的越南移民在后社会主义城市柏林的遭遇。记者、学者和越南人自己都认为，这些在截然不同的条件下离开家园的群体是一个民族，由一个无可置疑的民族国家联系在一起。Phi Hong Su严谨的民族志揭示了这种直觉。在吸收散文中，苏揭示了这些冷战同胞如何在日常生活中设定明显的社会界限。这本书揭示了20世纪的国家形成和国际移民是如何结合在一起的，边境过境产生了持久的移民分类。在这样做的过程中，过境点以持久的方式分享了种族、民族和宗教身份。
The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin
When the Berlin Wall fell, Germany united in a wave of euphoria and solidarity. Also caught in the current were Vietnamese border crossers who had left their homeland after its reunification in 1975. Unwilling to live under socialism, one group resettled in West Berlin as refugees. In the name of socialist solidarity, a second group arrived in East Berlin as contract workers. The Border Within paints a vivid portrait of these disparate Vietnamese migrants’ encounters with each other in the post-socialist city of Berlin. Journalists, scholars, and Vietnamese border crossers themselves consider these groups that left their homes under vastly different conditions to be one people, linked by an unquestionable ethnic nationhood. Phi Hong Su’s rigorous ethnography unpacks this intuition. In absorbing prose, Su reveals how these Cold War compatriots enact palpable social boundaries in everyday life. This book uncovers how 20th-century state formation and international migration—together, border crossings—generate enduring migrant classifications. In doing so, border crossings fracture shared ethnic, national, and religious identities in enduring ways.
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