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Dissertation Information for Christina Elizabeth Firpo

NAME:
- Christina Elizabeth Firpo

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2007)

ADVISORS:
- Geoffrey B. Robinson
- Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Kathryn Norberg
- George Dutton

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: "The durability of the empire": Race, empire and "abandoned" children in colonial Vietnam, 1870--1956

Abstract: This dissertation explores the policies of private welfare societies and the French colonial government toward abandoned Eurasian children in Indochina 1870-1956. French colonists identified these children as a threat to French colonial prestige and authority. Being of obvious European descent yet supposedly corrupted by Vietnamese culture, the children were considered a potential embarrassment to the colony. Moreover, French colonists suspected that abandoned Eurasians would come to resent their place in the colonial racial hierarchy and would eventually channel their resentment into anti-colonial activities. The colonial government's anxiety about the presumed Eurasian threat was exacerbated by historical exigencies that exposed the vulnerabilities of French rule in Indochina. Eurasian welfare societies were established to remove the colony's abandoned Eurasian children from the Vietnamese milieu--at times against their mothers' will--and to educate them as loyal French citizens.

In addition to providing a history of colonial policies toward abandoned Eurasian children, this dissertation analyzes how these policies changed as a result of increased threats to French colonial authority and the evolution of Metropolitan discourses on race and childcare. The project draws on works of scholars such as Ann Stoler, Nira Yuval-Davis and Gloria Anthias.

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