{"id":7565,"date":"2025-06-11T20:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7565"},"modified":"2025-06-11T20:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:05:20","slug":"anhhuy-do-c24-traces-familys-remarkable-journey-from-sai-gon-to-nashville-in-southern-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/06\/11\/anhhuy-do-c24-traces-familys-remarkable-journey-from-sai-gon-to-nashville-in-southern-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Anhhuy Do (C’24) Traces Family’s Remarkable Journey from S\u00e0i G\u00f2n to Nashville in ‘Southern Spaces’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Do’s grandfather, \u0110\u1ed7 Ph\u01b0\u01a1ng Anh, in front of B\u00e1ch Th\u1ea3o Market in Nashville, after passing his citizenship test in 2000. Photo courtesy of the Anhhuy Do.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Alumnus Anhhuy Do, a 2024 graduate who completed majors in History and Political Science, has published a powerful article in Southern Spaces<\/em>. The piece, “S\u00e0i G\u00f2n to Nashville: A Refugee Journey<\/a>,” traces the remarkable and harrowing migration of his family from Vietnam to Nashville, Tennessee, where they resettled in the 1990s as part of the U.S. government’s Humanitarian Operation<\/a>. Published fifty years after the fall of S\u00e0i G\u00f2n and the communist takeover of Laos, Cambodia, and Vi\u1ec7t Nam, Do’s piece illuminates the legacies of the post-Vi\u1ec7t Nam War era in Southeast Asia and among Vietnamese American communities throughout the U.S. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While at Emory, Do was active in many groups, including Asian Pacific-Islander Desi American Activists, Pi Sigma Alpha, the Vietnamese Student Association, he Atlanta Urban Debate League, Center for Civic and Community Engagement (CCE) Society, and Imagining Democracy Lab.\u00a0In his senior year, he won the History Department’s Matthew A. Carter Citizen-Scholar Award and the Jane Yang Award for Community Advocacy from the Office of Campus Life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do is pursuing his PhD in Vietnamese History from Princeton University, supported by a Presidential Fellowship. He extends a special thank you to Dr. Allen Tullos, Professor and Co-Director of Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, “for making this publication possible and remaining steadfast in amplifying unheard voices across Southern US history.\u201d Read Do’s piece here: “S\u00e0i G\u00f2n to Nashville: A Refugee Journey<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Many South Vietnamese sought new identities as they resettled in locations such as California, Texas, Washington State, Louisiana, and the DC metro area including Maryland and northern Virginia. Perhaps surprisingly, Tennessee also became home to generations of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants with intense transnational migration histories. One family\u2019s story is that of my own, whose refugee experience does not follow the typical timeline of helicopter escapees and boat people. Rather, as\u00a0Humanitarian Operation<\/a>\u00a0arrivals, my family\u2019s history offers an illuminating narrative.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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