The Chinese/Vietnamese diaspora : revisiting the boat people / edited by Yuk Wah Chan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chan, Yuk Wah.

Series:

Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 33.

Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnamese diaspora--History.

Vietnamese diaspora.

Refugees--Vietnam.

Refugees.

Boat people.

History.

Vietnam.

Refugees--China--Hong Kong.

Refugees--United States.

United States.

Boat people--Vietnam.

China--Hong Kong.

Physical Description:

xiv, 183 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee era (1975-1991), refugee settlement and different patterns of host-guest interactions that will have implications for refugee studies elsewhere. The book provides: -- a clearer historical understanding of the group dynamics among refugees - the ethnic Chinese Vietnamese refugees from both the North and South as well as the northern Vietnamese refugees -- an examination of different aspects of migration including: planning for migration, choices of migration route, and reasons for migration -- an analysis of the ethnic and refugee politics during the refugee era, the settlement and subsequent resettlement. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, migration, ethnicities, refugee histories and politics.

Contents:

Revisiting the Vietnamese refugee era : an Asian perspective from Hong Kong / Yuk Wah Chan

Rethinking the Vietnamese exodus : Hong Kong in comparative perspective / David W. Haines

The boat people crisis of 1978-1979 and the Hong Kong experience examined through the ethnic Chinese dimension / Ramses Amer

In search of history : the Chinese in South Vietnam, 1945-1975 / Li Tana

The Vietnamese minority : boatpeople settlement in Hong Kong / Yuk Wah Chan and Terence C.T. Shum

Vietnamese youth and their adaptation in Hong Kong / Ocean W.K. Chan

Thanh Loc Hong Kong's refugee screening system : from a refugee perspective / Peter Hansen

Visions of resistance and survival from Hong Kong detention camps / Daniel C. Tsang

Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong : a visual history / Sophia Suk-Mun Law

Sojourn in Hong Kong, settlement in America : experiences of Chinese-Vietnamese refugees / Jonathan H.X. Lee

Dark tourism, diasporic memory and disappeared history : the contested meaning of the former Indochinese refugee camp at Pulau Galang / Ashley Carruthers and Boitran Huynh-Beattie

The repatriated

from refugee migration to marriage migration / Yuk Wah Chan

Epilogue / Yuk Wah Chan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415613101

0415613108

9780203813102

0203813103

OCLC:

663952410