Download or read book Hong Kong and the Asylum Seekers from Vietnam written by Leonard Davis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Davis gives the background to the 15-year-long saga of Hong Kong and the asylum seekers from Vietnam. In the run-up to 1997 there has been increasing tension associated with the presence of 50,000 Vietnamese men, women and children in Hong Kong. The principal themes of the book cover screening and repatriation, the violence in the detention centres, the plight of children and the urgent need for the international community to be more generous to the refugees.

Download or read book Refugees from Vietnam in Hong Kong written by Refugee Action, Derby (GB) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Closed Camps written by Kristen Grim Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Boat Refugees from Vietnam written by and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inhumane Deterrence written by Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book PROBLEM OF VIETNAM BOAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG written by Gutti Raja Mohan Rao and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the legacies of the unification of Vietnam under Communist leadership in 1976 was the problem of Vietnamese boat people. Tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees fled the country in order to escape persecution and economic hardships. Since majority of them used small boats to flee the country to the neighbouring Southeast Asian Countries and Hong Kong, the Vietnamese refugees came to be called as 'boat people'. This dissertation is an attempt to analyse the problem of Vietnam boat people from 1975 to 1991 - that is from the birth of the boat people problem in the wake of American withdrawal from Vietnam in April 1975, to the conclusion of Paris Peace Accords on Cambodia in October 1991, which, among other things, facilitated Vietnam's "reintegration into the World Community" and the consequent growth of Vietnamese economy which in turn, it was fervently hoped, would not only induce the Vietnamese refugees to return to their native country but also discourage the Vietnamese from leaving the country.

Download or read book In Camps written by Jana K. Lipman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Invisible Citizens of Hong Kong written by Sophia Suk-mun Law and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 3, 1975, Hong Kong received its first cohort of 3,743 Vietnamese boatpeople. The incident opened a 25-year history that belongs to a larger context of forced migration in modern social history. By researching all possible textual material available, the book provides a comprehensive review of the collective history of the Vietnamese boatpeople. Moreover, it intertwines historical archives with personal drawings created by the Vietnamese living in Hong Kong detention camps, recapping a collective memory with its human face. By interpreting and analyzing these drawings, the author demonstrates the expressive and communicative power of imagery as a form of language, and illustrates how art can tell a personal tragic story when language fails. She unfolds the stories and artworks throughout the whole book with the hope that new insights and meanings can be attained through the conscious review and re-interpretation of the past.

Download or read book How Hong Kong Cares for Vietnamese Refugees written by Oxfam Hong Kong and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ethnocide A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong written by Joe Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: An ethnographic inquiry into the socio-cultural dynamics of the Vietnamese asylum seeker detention centres in Hong Kong during the period of 1988-1995. It deals essentially with the British asylum policy towards Vietnamese refugees and its outcome in Hong Kong. Based on the author's first hand experience of working in refugee camps, this book argues that the administrators managed to solve the crisis by perpetuating horrendous human rights violations and subsequent ethnocide of the asylum seekers trapped in the detention centres.

Download or read book Refugees From Vietnam written by Jo Campling and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-10-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Chinese Vietnamese Diaspora written by Yuk Wah Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book In Camps written by Jana K. Lipman and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book De Facto Local Integration written by Ravi C Lulla and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "De Facto Local Integration: a Case Study of Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong" by Ravi C, Lulla, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled DE FACTO LOCAL INTEGRATION: A CASE STUDY OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG submitted by Ravi C. Lulla for the degree of Master of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong August 2007 This study provides an account of different factors by which the Vietnamese refugee population in Hong Kong were left out from resettlement and became 'de facto locally integrated'. These factors may be said to have been driven by changes of various groups created as a result of different migration control policies and gaps in available durable solutions and problems affecting refugees living in Pillar Point Refugee Camp (Pillar Point). The change in migration control polices in Hong Kong created three groups of Vietnamese refugees. They are the Open camp group, Closed camp group and Family Reunion group. Two gaps in durable solutions for refugees living in Pillar Point are identified from analysing available durable solutions. These are considered as the sieve effect of non available durable solutions and de facto local integrations for these refugees until they were finally granted local integration after the closure of Pillar Point in 2000. Resettlement problems are analysed in relation to the sieve effect of non available durable solutions which are indicative of a concentrated population of refugees with criminal records and heroin addiction problems. Criminal records from different refugees groups created as a result of migration control polices are analysed based on Bourhis dominant host majority framework. Analysing the arrest records of different acculturated groups from 1979 to 1994 reveals that refugees who are filtered out due to criminal records from the Open camp group have a steady pattern of offending similar to a criminalised subgroup (Toohey 1985). Male refugees segregated from the host population are more vulnerable to becoming addicted to heroin as compared to those who have received an integration strategy. Female refugees who are excluded from the host population due to higher acculturative pressure and the effects of being excluded are more likely to be arrested, when these refugees are allowed to integrate with the host population as compared to those who have received an integration or segregation orientation. Adopting an integration orientation towards refugees from the outset has the least acculturative stress as compared to integrating refugees who have received different acculturative orientations. By comparison crimes committed during different acculturative periods indicate that the Open camp period has the lowest rate of crimes as compared to the Pillar Point period, when refugees created by different migration control policies are housed together. Lastly factors which prevented early identification and documentation of various agencies are pieced together to portray de facto local integration of refugees at Pillar Point from 1995 until May 2000, when the Hong Kong Government finally decided to offer local integration to this population at the time. This thesis illustrates that in the process of acculturating with the host population a residual population of refugees, in this case refugees with criminal records and history of drug abuse, will be filtered from other refugees in a protracted refugee situation. The only option for these refugees is local integration. Hence this study offers a 20-year analysis of refugee acculturation in Hong Kong

Download or read book The Boat Refugees from Vietnam Impact on Hong Kong written by Hong Kong. Information Services and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pamphlet contains the official review of the influx of Vietnamese refugees into Hong Kong during 1979. After a summary of developments in Hong Kong since 1945, the exodus of the boat people from Viet Nam and the initial reactions of the Hong Kong Government are described. By September 1979, there were 68,695 refugees in the camps and information is given on governmental, intergovernmental and voluntary agency assistance programmes. There is also mention of the efforts to organize resettlement programmes and of relations with the People's Republic of China.

Download or read book Refugee written by Lesleyanne Hawthorne and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the personal accounts of 20 Vietnamese refugees describing their experiences before, during and after their flight from Viet Nam. All the refugees have been resettled in Australia. Most of the contributions focus on the causes of the exodus but there is also information on traditional life in Viet Nam as well as descriptions of the refugees' experiences during the exodus, in the refugee camps and after their resettlement in Australia.

Download or read book Proxy Humanitarianism written by Hong-Kiu Yuen and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Proxy Humanitarianism: Hong Kong's Vietnamese Refugee Crisis, 1975-79" by Hong-kiu, Yuen, 袁康翹, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Set against the backdrop of the Cold War and the declining British Empire, this thesis explores how the Hong Kong government handled the Vietnamese refugee crisis of the 1970s. The Vietnamese refugee influx started after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and temporarily stopped after the Geneva Conference on Indochinese refugees in 1979. Drawing extensively upon recently declassified files from the National Archives in London and the National Archives in Maryland, the thesis discusses several important themes, for example, international concerns about human rights during the Cold War era, interpretations of humanitarianism, and Hong Kong's autonomy in the age of decolonization. It argues that Britain exerted its international influence by forcing Hong Kong to be a first asylum for refugees. Hong Kong played an important role in demonstrating Britain's contribution to resolving the refugee crisis. The colony served as a place for Britain's proxy humanitarianism. This thesis shows that international expectations of human rights conflicted with local politics in Hong Kong. Unlike studies that stress Hong Kong's increasing autonomy, this thesis shows that the colonial authorities played a passive role in the refugee crisis, and the British government still had the final say on Hong Kong's refugee policy. This thesis comprises three chapters. The first chapter investigates the case of two freighters that rescued Vietnamese refugees in 1975 and 1976. The Danish-registered Clara Maersk arrived in Hong Kong on 30 April 1975, marking the beginning of the refugee crisis. As the British and Hong Kong governments were uncertain about the scale of the influx and had different expectations about Britain's contribution to ending the refugee problem, the Clara Maersk incident triggered heated debates. The incident demonstrates how Britain's domestic affairs led to the British government's reluctant assistance to Hong Kong. The Burmese-registered Ava that arrived in Hong Kong on 6 July 1976 with ninety-eight refugees reveals the unclear responsibility for shipwrecked refugees rescued by foreign vessels. The Ava incident shows how Hong Kong's refugee influx was treated as an American problem. The U.S. government saw Hong Kong's regional role of strengthening Southeast Asian countries' involvement in America's refugee program. The second chapter investigates the second wave of Vietnamese refugees. The deteriorating Sino-Vietnamese relations in 1978 led to an exodus of ethnic Chinese from Vietnam. The Vietnamese government officially permitted the ethnic Chinese to leave in return for payment. This chapter examines the pre-arranged vessels that transported refugees to other countries under collaboration with the Vietnamese authorities. The final chapter focuses on how the British government relieved Hong Kong's refugee burden as cheaply as possible. On the one hand, the British government wanted to show its contribution to resolving the refugee crisis by maintaining Hong Kong's humanitarian policy. On the other hand, it did not want to take the Vietnamese refugees because of Britain's own immigration problems. By initiating an international conference on Indochinese refugees, the British government internationalized the refugee problem and minimized its responsibility for the crisis. Subjects: Refugees - China - Hong Kong Refugees - Vietnam