Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA (Tovaangar). Her work engages critical refugee studies, comparative ethnic studies, and transpacific studies. She is the author of Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine (U of California P, 2022) and co-editor with Vinh Nguyen of The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives (Routledge 2023). She is currently working on a second book project which revisits Gramsci’s “southern question” by constellating the southern spaces of South Korea, South Vietnam, and the US South.