| Description |
319 P: ill ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical refugee studies ; 1 |
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Critical refugee studies ; 1
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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 determines this status? And how does it change over time? From Guam to Malaysia and the Philippines to Hong Kong, In Camps is the first major work on Vietnamese refugee policy to pay close attention to host territories and to explore Vietnamese activism in the camps and the diaspora. This book explains how Vietnamese were transformed from de facto refugees to individual asylum seekers to repatriates. Ambitiously covering people on the ground--local governments, teachers, and corrections officers--as well as powerful players such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the US government, Jana Lipman shows that the local politics of first asylum sites often drove international refugee policy. Unsettling most accounts of Southeast Asian migration to the US, In Camps instead emphasizes the contingencies inherent in refugee policy and experiences"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Refugees -- Vietnam -- 20th century
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Refugee camps -- Political aspects -- 20th century
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| ISBN |
9780520343658 (cloth) |
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9780520343665 (paperback) |
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