Somewhere beyond Berlin and Hanoi: Revisiting German-Vietnamese Realities in Historic Perspective

This is one of many articles that was submitted to our "Call for Contributions" that couldn't be printed due to the limited capacity of our latest publication "Ist Zuhause da, wo die Sternfrüchte süß sind? Viet-deutsche Lebensrealitäten im Wandel“. We are happy to share it here. We will be posting 3 more articles in the following weeks of December. This text was first published on: th.boell.org Read More

Vietnamese Berlin Walk

The „Vietnamese Berlin walk“ is supposed to give a short insight into the history of the former contract workers and their families in Berlin who… Read More

Call for Abstracts and Creative Contributions

VLab in Kooperation mit der Rosa-Luxemburg- Stiftung arbeitet an der Umsetzung einer Publikation zu Lebensrealitäten der jungen Generationen der deutsch-vietnamesischen Diasporen (1½, 2. und 3. Generation). Wir suchen nach Autor*innen bzw. Illustrator*innen, die zu diesem Sammelband beitragen. Read More

Food Breaking Through Migration Barriers

To one who comes from a diasporic family with ties to China, Vietnam and Thailand, this was a familiar scene. My childhood memories consist of seeing the kitchen bench being overtaken by ingredients, everyone sprawling across the dining table and into the lounge with our allocated stations, each of us in charge of a task to bring the meal together. Read More

Kitchen Stories 1 bis 3

In der Veranstaltungsreihe „Kitchen Stories!” in Kooperation mit der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung möchten wir die vielschichtige vietnamesische Migrationsgeschichte anhand von Esskultur als „Überlebensinstrument” in der Fremde, als Ausdruck von Fürsorge, als identitätsstiftendes Element und als zentraler Bestandteil des kollektivistischen Zusammenhalts innerhalb von Familien und Communities erlebbar machen. In den generationsübergreifenden Koch-Sessions mit Gästen aus deutsch-vietnamesischen Communities soll die historische Heterogenität der Migranten*innen bzw. ihre multiplen Narrativen sichtbarer gemacht werden. Read More

Công dân Đức – bố mẹ Việt

Nhât dịp sinh nhật 2 tuổi (07.07.2017) của VLab, chúng tôi gửi đến các bác (nhất là thế hệ 1), các cô chú, anh chị em và bạn bè bài nghiên cứu bằng tiếng Việt này. Chúng tôi mong muốn sự kết nối và trao đổi giữa các thế hệ cộng đồng người Việt-Đức tại CHLBĐ được tăng cường và mạnh mẽ hơn... Read More

Not your Vorzeigemigrant

Denkt man an Beispiele von rassistischen Vorurteilen, fallen einem zuerst negative Zuschreibungen ein. Faulheit, erhöhte Gewaltbereitschaft, Dummheit - all das sind Dinge, die einer Gruppe von Menschen, die ein beliebiges Merkmal wie das Aussehen vereint, angedichtet werden... Read More

International Summer School 2018

Cac ban oi, the application period for the International Summer School in Southeast Asian Studies 2018 "Glocalization in Vietnam" starts now! The VLab team is thrilled to have the possiblity to be in the front row to intensify the German-Vietnamese education and cultural transfer. Read More