In camps : Vietnamese refugees, asylum seekers, and repatriates /

"After the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This is the story of what happened in the camps. In Camps raises key questions that remain all too relevant today: Who is a refugee? Who det...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lipman, Jana K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Colección:Critical refugee studies ; 1.
Temas:
1900-1999
Refugees > Vietnam > 20th century.
Refugee camps > Political aspects > 20th century.
Réfugiés > Viêt-nam > 20e siècle.
Camps de réfugiés > Aspect politique > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
Refugees
Vietnam
activism.
activists.
asian migration.
asylum seekers.
asylum.
bataan.
border.
communism.
diaspora.
government.
guam.
history.
hong kong.
immigration.
international refugee policy.
international relations.
malaysia.
philippines.
political science.
refugee camps.
refugee policy.
refugee.
refugees.
repatriates.
southeast asia.
southeast asian migration.
un high commissioner for refugees.
vietnam war.
vietnam.
vietnamese activism.
vietnamese refugee.
vietnamese.
war.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "Give us a ship" : The Vietnamese Repatriate Movement on Guam, 1975
  • To "shoot" or to "shoo" : Vietnamese in Malaysia, 1975-1979
  • A model camp
  • Hong Kong and "Voluntary repatriation," 1980-1989
  • Competing projects : humanitarianism and human rights in Hong Kong, 1989-1997
  • Palawan and diasporic imaginaries, 1996-2005
  • Epilogue.

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