Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relief
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Refugee Crisis in Cambodia
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relief
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Years of Horror, Days of Hope
Author: Barry S. LevyPublisher: Associated Faculty PressInc
ISBN: 9780804693998
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Survivors
Author: Sucheng ChanPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252071799
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In this clear, comprehensive, and unflinching study, Sucheng Chan invites us to follow the saga of Cambodian refugees striving to distance themselves from a series of cataclysmic events in their homeland. Survivors tracks not only the Cambodians' fight for life lives but also their battle for self-definition in new American surroundings. Unparalleled in scope, Survivors begins with the Cambodians' experiences under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, following them through escape to refugee camps in Thailand and finally to the United States, where they try to build new lives in the wake of massive trauma. Their struggle becomes primarily economic as they continue to negotiate new cultures and deal with rapidly changing gender and intergenerational relations within their own families. Poverty, crime, and racial discrimination all have an impact on their experiences in America, and each is examined in depth. Although written as a history, this is a thoroughly multidisciplinary study, and Chan makes use of research from anthropology, sociology, psychology, medicine, social work, linguistics and education. She also captures the perspective of individual Cambodians. Drawing on interviews with more than fifty community leaders, a hundred government officials, and staff members in volunteer agencies, Survivors synthesizes the literature on Cambodian refugees, many of whom come from varying socioeconomic backgrounds. A major scholarly achievement, Survivors is unique in the Asian American canon for its memorable presentation of cutting-edge research and its interpretation of both sides of the immigration process.
Refugees from Cambodia
Author: Leaving the House of Ghosts
Author: Sarah StreedPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786481934
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
On April 17, 1975, after five years of civil war, the Khmer Rouge guerrillas invaded Cambodia's major cities and forced the residents on a mass exodus to the countryside. Their leader, Pol Pot, established a government based on terror to bring about his dream of an agrarian society where work was done by hand--without what he believed to be corruptive influences. By the time the Vietnamese captured Phnom Penh and ended this brutal experiment in communism in 1979, an estimated two million Cambodians were dead and hundreds of thousands had begun to flee the country for refugee camps in Thailand. Survivors of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge now living in the Midwest tell their stories in this work. Many of them were children during that time, unable to comprehend exactly what was happening and why, but now able to reveal the trauma they experienced. Noeun Nor and Sinn Lok recollect being wrenched from their families and put into labor camps around the age of five. Prum Nath talks about her mother encouraging her to eat the last grains of her family's rice. Sokhary You remembers giving birth on a mountain without a doctor or hospital and using rusty scissors to cut the umbilical cord.
Refugee Crisis in Cambodia
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relief
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Beyond the Killing Fields
Author: Usha WelaratnaPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804723725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In 1975, after years of civil war, Cambodians welcomed the Khmer Rouge. Once in power, the regime closed Cambodia to the outside world. Four years later, when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and defeated the Khmer Rouge, the world learned how the Khmer Rouge had turned the country into killing fields. After the Vietnamese takeover, thousands of Cambodians fled their homeland. This book presents the Cambodian refugee experience through nine first-person narratives of men, women and children who survived the holocaust and have begun new lives in America.
The Kampuchean Refugee Crisis and the Response of the International Community
Author: Charles F. SilvaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This Mémoire argues that throughout the Cambodian refugee crisis there has existed a tangled web of humanitarian and political concerns. The author begins with a brief chronology sketching the movements of Cambodians, especially into Thailand, and the appearance of international actors in the crisis. The first part of the study focuses on the political factors which affected how certain agents responded to the crisis. Special attention is given to Thailand, ASEAN and the United States. The latter two are examined in terms of how they influenced or were influenced by the Thai response to the Cambodian influx. The author argues that no country in South East Asia feels the burden from refugees as does Thailand, and he describes in detail the Thai reaction to various influxes from Cambodia. The second part of the study examines how humanitarian organizations are able to function in a highly politicized atmosphere, i.e. how aid organizations such as UNHCR and the ICRC can maintain their principles in often compromising situations. In looking at the activities of UNHCR and ICRC in this crisis, the author raises the issue of whether a purely humanitarian ethic is possible in a heavily politicized context. An extensive bibliography accompanies the text.
Gift of Freedom
Author: Brian BuckleyPublisher: GeneralStore PublishingHouse
ISBN: 9781897113912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Unsettled
Author: Eric TangPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781439911648
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and ‘90s. Unsettled chronicles the unfinished odyssey of Bronx Cambodians, closely following one woman and her family for several years as they survive yet resist their literal insertion into concentrated Bronx poverty. Eric Tang tells the harrowing and inspiring stories of these refugees to make sense of how and why the displaced migrants have been resettled in the “hyperghetto.” He argues that refuge is never found, that rescue discourses mask a more profound urban reality characterized by racialized geographic enclosure, economic displacement and unrelenting poverty, and the criminalization of daily life. Unsettled views the hyperghetto as a site of extreme isolation, punishment, and confinement. The refugees remain captives in late-capitalist urban America. Tang ultimately asks: What does it mean for these Cambodians to resettle into this distinct time and space of slavery’s afterlife?