Download or read book The Repatriation of Vietnamese Boat People from Hong Kong written by Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 4 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 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 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 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 Long Term Detainment Or Forced Repatriation of Vietnamese Boat People written by James E. Salisbury and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of the Screening and Repatriation Program to the Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong written by Iris Hing-lin Lee and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 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 The Vietnamese Boat People 1954 and 1975 1992 written by Nghia M. Vo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest diaspora in Vietnamese history occurred between 1975 and 1992, when more than two million people fled by boat to escape North Vietnam's oppressive communist regime. Before this well-known exodus from Vietnam's shores, however, there was a massive population shift within the country. In 1954, one million fled from north to south to escape war, famine, and the communist land reform campaign. Many of these refugees went on to flee Vietnam altogether in the 1970s and 1980s, and the experiences of 1954 influenced the later diaspora in other ways as well. This book reassesses the causes and dynamics of the 1975-92 diaspora. It begins with a discussion of Vietnam from 1939 to 1954, then looks closely at the 1954 "Operation Exodus" and the subsequent resettlements. From here the focus turns to the later events that drove hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese to flee their homeland in 1975 and the years that followed. Planning for escape, choosing routes, facing pirates at sea, and surviving the refugee camps are among the many topics covered. Stories of individual escapees are provided throughout. The book closes with a look at the struggles and achievements of the resettled Vietnamese.
Download or read book Hong Kong written by Teresa E. Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Along the Southern Boundary written by Les Bird and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We had no jurisdiction outside Hong Kong waters. But we could see their vessels sinking in heavy seas. It was life or death. We just went." Former Marine Police officer Les Bird tells of the harrowing journey to Hong Kong made by tens of thousands of refugees in the years following the Vietnam War. He photographed their makeshift boats and his pictures tell the stories of these desperate refugees searching for a new life.
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 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 Protection of Vietnamese Asylum Seekers in Hong Kong Detention Screening and Repatriation written by A. Wagley Gow and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the extent to which the administrative detention of asylum seekers, especially Vietnamese 'boat people', and the methods of refugee status determination and repatriation employed in Hong Kong violate the human rights and fundamental freedoms recognized under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Hong Kong is bound. Similarly, it judges the Government of Hong Kong by the standards of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners, and the Body of Principles on the Protection of all Persons under any Form of Detention or Imprisonment; the author considers these instruments to reflect customary international law as accepted by State practice. After providing a background to the detention of asylum seekers, therefore, the paper analyses the manner in which this policy of detention is implemented, noting detention centres, the conditions of detention and the use of excessive force. It then uses individual case studies as a basis for analysis of the legality of such procedures. The paper moves on to consider the screening process used to determine the status of asylum seekers, citing a range of criticisms from alleged use of a 'quota' system to outright intimidation of refugees when they seek legal advice. The procedures of both voluntary and forced repatriation are examined in depth and particular attention is given to non-volunteer/non-objector repatriation as arising from the September 1990 agreement between the UK, Hong Kong and Viet Nam. Following an analysis of the role played by the UNHCR in all these areas, the paper concludes that the policy of detention, the substantial and well-documented flaws in the status determination procedure and the existence of non-voluntary repatriation represent clear violations of international law including accepted standards of human rights. Moreover, the paper offers several recommendations to be implemented as soon as possible so that these violations in standards do not set precedents for the future situation of human rights in this area, which is seen to be of particular importance given that Hong Kong will become a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China in 1997.
Download or read book Vietnamese Boat People Crisis in Hong Kong written by Nguyen Van Canh and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 29 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.
