Download or read book Report on Vietnamese Migrants and Asylum seekers in Hong Kong boat People written by Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 25 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 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 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 The Chinese Vietnamese Diaspora written by Yuk Wah Chan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 199 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 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 Boat People written by Hong Kong. Security Branch. Refugees Division and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Search of Asylum written by Janelle M. Diller and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an inquiry into the situation of Vietnamese asylum seekers in Hong Kong, and was made shortly after the announcement of the government in June 1988 to introduce procedures for the determination of their refugee status, in order that those who are recognized as refugees can be resettled, and those whose case are rejected can eventually be repatriated. The author analyzes the procedure in the early days and the difficulties inherent in establishing individual determination of refugee status for a caseload which for more than a decade has enjoyed group determination as refugees and benefitted from resettlement. She also discusses the involvement of UNHCR after the conclusion of a Statement of Understanding between the Office and the Hong Kong government in September 1988. Then the author describes the living conditions of the detention centres where Vietnamese who arrived after the change of policy are gathered: the conditions under which the persons are held violate international human rights law and national regulations. She then considers the most controversial issue of the refugee status determination process: the proposed return of rejected cases. She argues against repatriation or deportation of any asylum seekers because in the Vietnamese context it is impossible to make a distinction between refugees and those who leave for economic reasons. The author goes further on to say that because no one can return without fear of recrimination, even those who cannot establish a case in terms of Convention criteria should be considered as "non-Convention" refugees entitled to protection against “refoulement” under the mandate of UNHCR and should be given temporary refuge. The book ends with some recommendations relating to the procedure and repatriation.
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 The Forgotten People written by and published by . This book was released on 1988* with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncertain Harbors written by Joseph Cerquone and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistics.
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 Boat People in Transit written by John Chr Knudsen and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed study of the communal life of Vietnamese in refugee camps in the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan. The author visited Bataan Processing Center, Palawan, Kai Tak North, Gose and Himeji camps over a period of 28 days in April-May 1982. The object was to discover how the camp stay might affect later adjustment in Norway. The author stresses that his analysis is based on refugees' own perceptions of their camp experience. Each camp was evaluated and compared with regard to planning and establishment; location and climate; housing and sanitary conditions; mental and physical health; turnover and length of stay; camp management and organization; camp objectives; collective living, and other aspects. The author discusses the special nature of life in a transit camp, a psychologically painful experience. Because their attention is focused upon the possibility of imminent departure, refugees avoid strong emotional ties. Nonetheless, the moment of departure remains difficult, since they are anxious about the future, asserts the author. In all the camps there are problems of alcohol misuse, family violence, insomnia, loneliness and depression. The author emphasizes that transfers from camp to camp should be avoided if at all possible, because refugees are forced to re-negotiate the same ambiguous adjustment. The author concludes by discussing improvements to be made in preparing the refugees for resettlement and in reception and resettlement procedures in Norway. Bibliography, appendix, photographs.
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 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 Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong written by Refugee Council of Australia and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 50 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:
