Documentary “Quan 13' explores Vietnamese diaspora in France through food.
Gray, a former senior producer at CNN, said she was inspired to create the documentary because as a Vietnamese American, she wanted to tell her community's stories, which aren't well represented in media. While she worked at CNN, she helped launch and promote the travel and food TV series “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.”
In “Quan 13,” Gray begins her quest to answer a central question – what does it mean to be Vietnamese around the world? – in Paris' 13th district. The area ishome to a large Asian population, including Vietnamese, Gisele Bousquet, a lecturer at San Jose State University whose work focuses on the Vietnamese diaspora in Europe and the U.S., said., and it was the first place Gray experienced the Vietnamese diaspora outside of the United States.
France is home to the oldest Vietnamese diasporic community, which is linked to France's colonization of Vietnam in the late 19th century, Bousquet noted. She said that Vietnamese began migrating to France in the early 1900s, making the community more established and assimilated compared to the U.S. However, unlike in the U.S.
While the community in the U.S. is not as established, with an influx of Vietnamese refugees migrating after the fall of Saigon in 1975, the country is home to the
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