Stories of settling and civilizing a landscape often mask or conceal stories of displacement. Settling stories are often unsettling stories—and scholarship on urban settlement should strive to show both faces of the settlement process. This article analyzes interview excerpts collected between 2010 and 2012 from residents who have been evicted from an urban development site located across the Saigon River from Ho Chi Minh City’s central business district. I highlight how evictees evoke their own histories of settlement as a way of unsettling the triumphalist story of contemporary urban development in the city. Along the way, an unexpected, yet equally unsettling, irony emerges. The settlement stories evictees rely upon to prove their own status as legitimate urban settlers evoke the larger story of Vietnamese manifest destiny, which is also an unsettling tale of conquest, displacement, and settler colonialism.

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新西贡令人不安的驱逐故事

定居和文明景观的故事常常掩盖或掩盖流离失所的故事。解决故事通常是令人不安的故事，关于城市住区的奖学金应努力展现住区过程的两个方面。本文分析了2010年至2012年期间从胡志明市中央商务区西贡河对岸的城市开发场所逐出的居民中摘录的采访。我着重介绍被遣送者如何唤起自己的定居历史，以使这个城市当代城市发展的胜利故事动摇。一路上，出现了意想不到的但同样令人不安的讽刺。当合法的城市定居者唤起更大的越南清单命运故事时，定居者被驱逐者的故事就证明了自己的地位，