Asian refugees in America
Subtitle: narratives of escape and adaptation
By: Eleanor Herz Swent ; foreword by Judy Yung
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780786463398
Subjects: Asian Americans; Refugees
Description: "This oral history documents the Asian immigrant experience as never before. Here are the stories of desperate individuals who swam to escape from China to Macao and Hong Kong; of Chinese daughters considered worthless by their families; of political refugees from Vietnam; of ethnic Chinese who fled by boat from Vietnam; of refugees from the genocide in Cambodia"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Newcomers from China; title: Newcomers from Vietnam; title: The first wave, 1975; title: Looking back, years later; title: The second wave, the "boat people"; title: Newcomers from Cambodia; title: Land of the free.