Viet Thanh Nguyen on trauma, displacement, and identifying as a refugee

Pulitzer prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen is the guest on this episode of Displaced, and talks to Grant and Ravi about his background, and the traumatic experience of being separated from his parents when he was 4 years old. He goes on to talk about the role of trauma in shaping the lives of refugees, and how that has informed his own work. They discuss the label 'refugee', and the place of refugees in America in this current moment. This is the last episode of Displaced in season 1. Check out our previous episodes here in the show notes: Get in touch with the show via email: displaced@rescue.org Support the show by leaving us a review, and

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Viet Thanh Nguyen on trauma, displacement, and identifying as a refugee is an episode from Displaced by Vox Media Podcast Network.

This episode is 57:55 long.

This episode was published on Oct 30, 2018.

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