Cu Chi tunnels: Vietnamese transmigrant's perspective

Kelly L. Le

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2014.02.007

Cu Chi tunnels: Vietnamese transmigrant's perspective

Kelly L. Le^*

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Abstract

Made 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	75-88
Number of pages	14
Journal	Annals of Tourism Research
Volume	46
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2014.02.007
Publication status	Published - May 2014

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