Multisensory Refuge and Placemaking in Cambodian North Carolina

This study seeks to foreground multisensory practices surrounding music, food, and religion as modes through which refugees claim a sense of place and refuge. Focused on the Cambodian American communities at Khmer Buddhist temples in Greensboro and Lexington, North Carolina, the project will inform understanding about refuge as it spans long past an original crisis of displacement. In doing this, the project provides a record of Southeast Asian American experience in the American Southeast.