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Survivors: CAMBODIAN REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES
Sucheng Chan
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Description for Survivors: CAMBODIAN REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES
Paperback. Presents a multidisciplinary study of why and how Cambodians have come to the US and how they have fared since. Drawing on interviews with more than fifty community leaders, government officials, and staff members in volunteer agencies, this book synthesizes the literature on the refugees, many of whom come from varying socioeconomic backgrounds. Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
The Asian American Experience
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252071799
SKU
V9780252071799
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About Sucheng Chan
Sucheng Chan is professor emeritus of Asian American studies and global studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author or editor of twelve books, including This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910, Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America, and Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States. She ... Read more
Reviews for Survivors: CAMBODIAN REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES
"An excellent, comprehensive, elegantly written multidisciplinary survey of recent Cambodian history and the resettlement of Cambodian refugees in the United States. This book by a highly accomplished scholar of Asian Americans will be the definitive work on the subject."
Ben Kiernan, Yale University, author of The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, ... Read more
Ben Kiernan, Yale University, author of The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, ... Read more