‘Demmer’s book beautifully evokes the bodies that loomed over efforts at US-Vietnamese normalization - the POW/MIAs for whom Americans demanded a ‘full accounting’ and the Vietnamese who migrated en masse to the United States in the decades following the war. As she illuminates the war’s final chapter, Demmer exposes the myriad ways in which family reunification was at the center of reconciliation efforts after Saigon’s fall.’ Sarah Snyder, author of From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy

‘Built on impressive research and showcasing incisive analysis, After Saigon’s Fall shows how migration vitally shaped the post-war relationship between Vietnam and the United States. Astute and engaging, Amanda Demmer’s book is a must read for scholars of immigration, the Cold War, and human rights and humanitarianism.’ Carl J. Bon Tempo, author of Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War

‘In After Saigon’s Fall, Amanda Demmer examines the interconnectedness of war and peace. By foregrounding refugees, the politics of humanitarianism, and the memory of war, she offers profound insights of how the aftermath of war is in many ways its continuation.’ Judy Wu, author of Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism and Feminism during the Vietnam Era

‘Beyond illuminating a vital dimension of US-Vietnam relations and using it to think more carefully about the war’s legacies, it seems to me that this is the value of Demmer’s book: to alert foreign relations scholars to the ways in which even stateless actors shape the behavior of states, and to offer a model of how to research that dynamic.’ Michael J. Allen, H-Diplo

‘Her work is nothing short of a model for how to write a new history of the Vietnam War.’ Heather Marie Stur, H-Diplo

‘Amanda Demmer presents us with an entirely new way of looking at U.S.-Vietnamese relations after 1975 … Demmer’s book is a most welcome addition to what is still a relatively scarce scholarship on the post war period, and is undoubtedly the definitive study on the complex intertwined processes of U.S-SRV normalization and South Vietnamese migration to the United States.’ Kathryn C. Statler, Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review