Download or read book Khmer Displaced Persons in the Thai Cambodian Border written by N. Raymond and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper, written in conjunction with the Refugee Studies Program at Webster University in Geneva, describes a three week visit to Thailand in March/April 1989 to study the displaced Khmer along the Thai-Cambodian border. The author, a student in the Program, recounts briefings given to the group in Bangkok by a representative of UNHCR, by members of the Supreme Command of the Royal Thai Government, by representatives of the United Nations Border Relief Operations (UNBRO) and by the Committee for the Coordination of Services to the Displaced Persons in Thailand (CCSDPT). The paper then focuses on the camps along the border. Descriptions are given of Site 2, Greenhill, Site 8, and Khao-I-Dang. There is a detailed description of a follow-up seminar which took place at San Remo. The author summarizes the discussions held in workshops relating to organizational, psychological, legal, political and economic problems dealing with the Khmer displaced persons. A review is also given of an International Labor Office (ILO) mission concerning voluntary repatriation. The author presents repatriation as viewed by political factions at different sites and her analysis of the components of a successful repatriation.
Download or read book Khmer Rouge Abuses Along the Thai Cambodian Border written by Asia Watch Committee (U.S.) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1989 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Double Vision written by Court Robinson and published by Asian Research Center for Migration Institu. This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cambodians in Thailand written by Virginia Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over ten years hundreds of thousands of Kampucheans have fled their country, seeking refuge in neighbouring Thailand. The first section of this paper discusses the history of the Kampuchean flight to Thailand and the evolution of Thailand's response to the influx of refugees. It identifies three phases of conflict: 1) 1975-1979: Kampucheans flee the communist regime of Pol Pot; 2) 1979-1980: Kampucheans flee Vietnamese invaders; 3) 1980-1985: Kampucheans continue to move into Thailand to escape the escalating conflict in the border area between Kampuchean resistance armies and the Vietnamese. The second section of the paper describes the current situation of approximately 70,000 official and undocumented Kampuchean refugees living in camps in Thailand. It also describes the current plight of more than 230,000 displaced Kampucheans living in border camps. The author concludes that after ten years of crisis, the Kampucheans still need and must be given international assistance.
Download or read book Seeking Shelter written by Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D. Exodus in Thailand
Download or read book Beyond the Killing Fields written by Josh Getlin and published by Aperture. This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a photographic witness of the lifestyle of displaced Cambodians who still live in camps on the Thai border. The book draws its title from the Khmer Rouge genocide that took the lives of more that one million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979. When Vietnamese troops intervened in 1979, thousands of Cambodians sought refuge along the Thai border, many of them in settlements just inside Cambodia, hoping for a quick return home. However, civil war broke out in Cambodia and the border camps that had been set up to temporarily house displaced persons became outposts for Cambodian resistance leaders and were thus military targets. In 1985 the Vietnamese and allied Cambodian forces drove the inhabitants of the camps over the border into Thailand, where an estimated 350,000 still live in dusty, crowded camps, subject to artillery bombardments. There are eight such camps, Site 2 being the largest with an estimated 200,000 residents. Because the Cambodians are labelled 'displaced persons' rather than 'refugees', they are not eligible for resettlement and do not qualify for UNHCR protection. A new international organization, the United Nations Border Relief Operations (UNBRO) was established to distribute food, water and housing material to the camps on a temporary basis.
Download or read book Between Hope and Insecurity written by Peter W. Nathanielsz and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction: linking peace and rehabilitation in Cambodia; transition to what? Cambodia, UNTAC and the peace process; the economic dimension of social development and the peach process in Cambodia; Cambodia: NGOs in transition; women, children and returnees; the return of the border Khmer: repatriation and reintegration of refugees from the Thai-Cambodian border. Also includes a 21-page report by Michael W. Doyle, "Peacebuilding in Cambodia" (1996).
Download or read book Just Waiting to Die Cambodian Refugees in Thailand written by T. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr Jackson went to Thailand in 1986 as an evaluator from Oxfam to examine the work of the dozen non-governmental agencies (NGOs) in the refugee camps. He was a member of the first World Food Programme (WFP) evaluation mission to look at the UN Border Relief Operation (UNBRO). UNBRO, formed in 1982 to look after the needs of Kampucheans living in camps on the Thai-Kampuchean border, provides humanitarian assistance to over 250,000 displaced Kampucheans. WFP has had a major role in establishing and servicing UNBRO, but had never undertaken a review of its work, nor the long-term needs of the operation. This report is Mr Jackson's to the International Council for Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), the NGO umbrella group, and preliminary to two more extensive reports to be published later. After describing the history of the camps, the author then delves into the specifics of the 8 camps strung out over a 400-mile stretch just inside Thailand. Since the Thai border area is under martial law, the refugees are under the authority of the Thai military and the camps closed areas, with access in and out extremely difficult. The major feature of the population profile of the camps is that there are an extremely large number of children under 15, a reported 150,000. Near the camps are satellite military camps where thousands more Kampucheans live. The report describes the camps, although the group's access to 2 of the 8 was extremely limited. Site 2, the second biggest Khmer city in the world after Phnom Penh, is described as having a sinister and foreboding air and epitomizing the hopelessness and futility of the border populations. Since the camps are in a martial law region, people are under the control of the military, and are in fact a captive population. The Thai Government classifies people in the camps as displaced persons, not refugees. To make matters worse, UNBRO and ICRC have not agreed on the responsibility for the physical safety of the refugees. Many of these problems are blamed on the border politics, which Mr Jackson analyses. The voluntary agencies are praised for their humanitarian work, but criticized for the lack of long-term goals and for not giving the people a voice. The author concludes with several recommendations aimed at ameliorating the Thai-Kampuchean crisis situation.
Download or read book Survivors written by Sucheng Chan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004-05-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this clear, comprehensive, and unflinching study, Sucheng Chan invites us to follow the saga of Cambodian refugees striving to distance themselves from a series of cataclysmic events in their homeland. Survivors tracks not only the Cambodians' fight for life lives but also their battle for self-definition in new American surroundings. Unparalleled in scope, Survivors begins with the Cambodians' experiences under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, following them through escape to refugee camps in Thailand and finally to the United States, where they try to build new lives in the wake of massive trauma. Their struggle becomes primarily economic as they continue to negotiate new cultures and deal with rapidly changing gender and intergenerational relations within their own families. Poverty, crime, and racial discrimination all have an impact on their experiences in America, and each is examined in depth. Although written as a history, this is a thoroughly multidisciplinary study, and Chan makes use of research from anthropology, sociology, psychology, medicine, social work, linguistics and education. She also captures the perspective of individual Cambodians. Drawing on interviews with more than fifty community leaders, a hundred government officials, and staff members in volunteer agencies, Survivors synthesizes the literature on Cambodian refugees, many of whom come from varying socioeconomic backgrounds. A major scholarly achievement, Survivors is unique in the Asian American canon for its memorable presentation of cutting-edge research and its interpretation of both sides of the immigration process.
Download or read book Cambodia Toward Peace and Relief written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cambodia written by United States. General Accounting Office. National Security and International Affairs Division and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Just Waiting to Die written by Tony Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Rice Truck to Paddy Field written by Lynda Thorn and published by . This book was released on 1991* with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rice Rivalry and Politics written by Linda Mason and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cambodian Refugees in Southeast Asia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Refugee Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Brotherhood at War written by Grant Evans and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
