Ethnic Dissent and EmpowermentVietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low skill jobs abroad. Angie Ngc Trn concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers belonging to the Kinh, Hoa, Hr, Khmer, and Chm ethnic groups challenge a transnational process that coerces and exploits them. Focusing on migrant laborers working in Malaysia, Trn looks at how they carve out a third space that allows them a socially accepted means of resistance to