Vietnamese Adoptions and the Politics of Family Migrations

By Allison Varzally ’94. The University of North Carolina Press, February 2017. Available on Amazon. As Allison Varzally details in this book, a desire to redeem defeat in Vietnam, faith in the nuclear family, and commitment to capitalism guided American efforts on behalf of Vietnamese youths. By tracing the stories of Vietnamese migrants, however, Varzally reveals that while many had accepted separations as a painful strategy for survival in the midst of war, most sought, and some eventually found, reunion with their kin.