Author: Publisher:
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Category : Political refugees
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Refugee Services in Thailand
Author: Ban Vinai, the Refugee Camp
Author: Lynellyn LongPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231078634
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Long documents the reality of daily life in Ban Vinai, a refugee camp in northern Thailand. Based on the author's ethnographic research, the book offers rich narrative description of the lives of the Hmong and lowland Lao refugees and explores the effects of long-term residence in the camp.
Voices from the Camps
Author: James M. FreemanPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295801611
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Wave after wave of political and economic refugees poured out of Vietnam beginning in the late 1970s, overwhelming the resources available to receive them. Squalid conditions prevailed in detention centers and camps in Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia, where many refugees spent years languishing in poverty, neglect, and abuse while supposedly being protected by an international consortium of caregivers. Voices from the Camps tells the story of the most vulnerable of these refugees: children alone, either orphaned or separated from their families. Combining anthropology and social work with advocacy for unaccompanied children everywhere, James M. Freeman and Nguyen Dinh Huu present the voices and experiences of Vietnamese refugee children neglected and abused by the system intended to help them. Authorities in countries of first asylum, faced with thousands upon thousands of increasingly frightened, despairing, and angry people, needed to determine on a case-by-case basis whether they should be sent back to Vietnam or be certified as legitimate refugees and allowed to proceed to countries of resettlement. The international community, led by UNHCR, devised a well-intentioned screening system. Unfortunately, as Freeman and Nguyen demonstrate, it failed unaccompanied children. The hardships these children endured are disturbing, but more disturbing is the story of how the governments and agencies that set out to care for them eventually became the children�s tormenters. When Vietnam, after years of refusing to readmit illegal emigrants, reversed its policy, the international community began doing everything it could to force them back to Vietnam. Cutting rations, closing schools, separating children from older relations and other caregivers, relocating them in order to destroy any sense of stability--the authorities employed coercion and effective abuse with distressing ease, all in the name of the �best interests� of the children. While some children eventually managed to construct a decent life in Vietnam or elsewhere, including the United States, all have been scarred by their refugee experience and most are still struggling with the legacy. Freeman and Nguyen�s presentation and analysis of this sobering chapter in recent history is a cautionary tale and a call to action.
Refugee Abstracts
Author: Thailand, a First Asylum Country for Indochinese Refugees
Author: Refugees Magazine
Author: Taking Refuge
Author: Penny Van EsterikPublisher: Arizona State University Program for Southeast Asian Monogra
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Political Refugees
Author: Mary A. VancePublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
A Guide to the Collection of the Asian Library
Author: Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation. Asian LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Revival: The Cambodian Agony (1990)
Author: David A. AblinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351715194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This title was first published in 1990: Cambodia, it has been said, has gone through the most radical social upheaval and transformation of any country in recorded history. From the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk, who ruled for 29 year, in 1970 to the victory of the Cambodian Communist Party in 1975, Cambodia suffered massive saturation bombing and an unusually violent civil war. It is estimated that half a million people of the seven million total population died. From 1975 to the end 1978 as many as another three million perished because of the brutal policies of the government, and spurred the civil war that has been simmering ever since. In this book, the world's leading experts on Cambodia and the politics of Indochina address the major issues facing Cambodia since the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime in 1978.