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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam: Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression
Description: Does ‘citizenship’ exist in a socialist or communist context? If it does, what would this mean in the case of Vietnam? To what extent do the Vietnamese state and Vietnamese citizens perceive citizenship differently? And how are those differences negotiated? Why does the wave of recent popular protests in neighbouring countries concern the Vietnamese government? Two lecturers from the University of Passau, Mirjam Le and Franziska Nicolaisen, share and discuss with Linh Phương Lê their findings on these issues.Mirjam Le is a lecturer and PhD researcher in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Passau, Germany...