In Camps

Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates

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Jana K. Lipman

Verlag:

University of California Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 57KPYNP

EAN: 9780520343665

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Zustellung: Di, 21.07.2026

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Beschreibung

Robert Ferrell Book Prize Honorable Mention 2021, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in History Honorable Mention 2022, Association for Asian American Studies. 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.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Jana K. Lipman

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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