Dorchester: Strangers in a Strange Land is a follow-up to Mark F. Erickson's award-winning photobook Other Streets: Scenes from a Life in Vietnam not Lived. Erickson shares an intimate, rarely seen view of what life was like for the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese who fled Vietnam and re-settled in the United States in the two decades after the end of the war. Black-and-white photographs taken in Boston's largest Vietnamese community between 1991 and 1994 are centered around moments of family life, as well as capturing scenes of school, church, and community.