Voices from the Camps Vietnamese Children Seeking Asylum

Name: Voices from the Camps Vietnamese Children Seeking Asylum
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ISBN: 9780295983592

ISBN-10: 0295983590

ISBN-13: 9780295983592

Edition: 2003

Authors: James M. Freeman, Nguyen Dinh Huu

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 7/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English




Victims of politics



A guided tour of misery



Vicissitudes of fate



The unbearable life



Screening and its critics



Repatriation



Resettlement



Interventions



Continuing concerns