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

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

Update: 2018-10-30
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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.

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

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

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