In this talk, I examine how the political imperative for racialized Louisianians to be resilient to ongoing environmental harm has specifically impacted Vietnamese American families who rely on commercial fishing. This includes thinking about disaster and responses thereto, restoration policy, and, increasingly, calls for structurally vulnerable communities to relocate away from the coast. In so doing, I argue that refugee resilience—or the community’s “innate” resilience as refugees of US and other conflicts—produces and maintains fishing families’ environmental expendability.