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Cu Chi tunnels: Vietnamese transmigrant's perspective

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dc.contributor.authorLe, Kelly
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-14T23:20:36Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.updated2016-06-14T08:50:50Z
dc.description.abstractMade famous during the Vietnam War as underground passages of the Viet Cong guerillas, the Cu Chi Tunnels historical site is a tourist attraction, commonly associated with a kind of low-brow entertainment aimed at foreign visitors. This article expands the scholarship of this site using auto-ethnographic and qualitative survey research methods. Aimed at agitating Cu Chi’s kitsch and political associations, the author considers the Vietnamese market economy and the reversed-migration flows, in order to contextualize Cu Chi as an identity-negotiation nexus for transmigrant Vietnamese professionals. Particular focus is placed on how visitation to Cu Chi tunnels and the abstention of visitation can allude to the participant’s heritage affiliations.
dc.identifier.issn0160-7383
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/103458
dc.publisherPergamon-Elsevier Ltd
dc.sourceAnnals of Tourism Research
dc.titleCu Chi tunnels: Vietnamese transmigrant's perspective
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage88
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage75
local.contributor.affiliationLe, Kelly, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidLe, Kelly, u4767392
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor150600 - TOURISM
local.identifier.ariespublicationU3488905xPUB7778
local.identifier.citationvolume46
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.annals.2014.02.007
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84897874814
local.type.statusPublished Version

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