Mimi Thi Nguyen examines the self-interested claims of the United States to provide freedom to others, even as it does so by generating violence and displacement through overpowering warfare.

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. The Empire of Freedom 1
1. The Refugee Condition 33
2. Grace, the Gift of the Girl in the Photograph 83
3. Race Wars, Patriot Acts 133
Epilogue. Refugee Returns 179
Notes 191
Bibliography 239
Index 267

Mimi Thi Nguyen is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a coeditor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, also published by Duke University Press.