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Vietnam has never been more global. The movement of people, ideas, practices, and institutions into and out of the country has resulted in extensive transnational networks and global fields of exchange. Through fine-grained ethnographic analyses, this book examines how these processes of economic and social transformation affect individual and communal lives. The contributors also explore how Vietnamese today navigate increasingly translocal lifeworlds characterized by ever more complex mobility trajectories, economic systems and networks, and communities of practice. Contributors: Hoang Cam, Bùi Thị Thu Đoài, Kim Anh Dang, Kirsten W. Endres, Arve Hansen, Erik Harms, Lan Anh Hoang, Esther Horat, Sandra Kurfürst, Nicolas Lainez, Ann Marie Leshkowich, Hy V. Luong, Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Minh T. N. Nguyen, Emmanuelle Peyvel, Helle Rydstrom, Jessica Steinman, Phung N. Su, An Huy Tran, Allison Truitt, Trịnh Phan Khánh Yale Southeast Asia Studies Monograph #70