The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890–1980 (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory)

Download ! The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890–1980 (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) PDF by ^ Christina Elizabeth Firpo eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890–1980 (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) Part of a larger historical trend, the Indochina case shows striking parallels to that of Australias Stolen Generation and the Indian and First Nations boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Metis children, Eurasians in particular, were seen as a threat on multiple fronts--colonial security, white French dominance, and the colonial gender order. French child welfare organizations continued to work in Vietnam well beyond independence, until 1975. Although the program succeeded in resc

Author	:	Christina Elizabeth Firpo
Rating	:	4.78 (876 Votes)
Asin	:	082487515X
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	288 Pages
Publish Date	:	2013-04-19
Language	:	English

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Examines the systematic removal and Europeanization of fatherless Eurasian children in Indochina in this easily readable and at times heartrending account of French policies that caused metis children of absent or dead French fathers to be taken away from their Vietnamese mothers and placed in French-controlled institutional settings.-- "CHOICE"

Part of a larger historical trend, the Indochina case shows striking parallels to that of Australia's Stolen Generation and the Indian and First Nations boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Metis children, Eurasians in particular, were seen as a threat on multiple fronts--colonial security, white French dominance, and the colonial gender order. French child welfare organizations continued to work in Vietnam well beyond independence, until 1975. Although the program succeeded in rescuing homeless children from life on the streets, for those in their mothers' care it was disastrous. The story of the metis children they sought to help highlights the importance--and vulnerability--of indigenous mothers and children to the colonial project. In many cases, and for a wide range of reasons--death, divorce, the end of a romance, a return to France, or because the birth was the result of rape--the father had left the child in the mother's care. This poignant and little known story will be of interest to scholars of French and Southeast Asian studies, colonialism, gender studies, and the historiography of the family.. Metis were considered particularly vulnerable to the lure of anticolonialist movements--their ambiguous racial identity and outsider status, it was thought, might lead them to rebellion. Metischildren who could pass for white also played a key role in French plans to augment their own declining numbers and reproduce