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Habrock, Christopher Dale.

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A mass exodus: The refugee experience from Vietnam to Wichita, Kansas.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A mass exodus: The refugee experience from Vietnam to Wichita, Kansas./
Author:	Habrock, Christopher Dale.
Description:	83 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 49-01, page: 0149.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International49-01.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1486264
ISBN:	9781124237916

A mass exodus: The refugee experience from Vietnam to Wichita, Kansas.
Habrock, Christopher Dale.

A mass exodus: The refugee experience from Vietnam to Wichita, Kansas. - 83 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 49-01, page: 0149.

Thesis (M.A.)--Emporia State University, 2010.

Saigon fell to communist North Vietnam on April 30, 1975. Many Vietnamese feared they would be persecuted for their political beliefs, involvement, or their assistance---alleged or actual---to the United States during the war. Evacuations occurred in the immediate aftermath of Saigon's fall but that was just the beginning. Shortly after, with Cambodia having already fallen, communist forces overran Vietnam's neighbor Laos. The United States began admitting refugees who were most at risk to persecution, as well as those who were likely in harm's way. Meanwhile, the newly installed communist regimes throughout Indochina ushered in new policies of collectivism, centralized planning, and brutality. After a couple of years of bleak living conditions and fear of the government, many fled their native countries in any manner they could---by land or by sea. This led to a second wave of emigration and the infamous term "boat people" was born of it.

ISBN: 9781124237916Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

A mass exodus: The refugee experience from Vietnam to Wichita, Kansas.
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520 $a Conditions were rough and often deadly for those who fled Indochina. Few went overland; most went by sea. To make the journey, refugees sold almost everything they owned. Once enroute, they were often subjected to piracy, beatings, rape, rough conditions at sea, shoddy boats, mechanical failure, starvation, illness, and even murder. A crisis was at hand. The United States began its involvement during the First Indochina War with advisory consultations and eventually landed itself in the middle of a full-scale hot war by the mid-1960s. Its decisions and actions undertaken and failure to achieve its desired result left Vietnam ravaged with a crisis at hand. The refugee crisis had America's name written all over it and it was now responsible for alleviating the situation, even if only by moral standards. The refugee crisis impacted the international community and many nations accepted refugees as the crisis ensued. However, the United States resettled more refugees than all other countries combined. Initially, they arrived at one of four processing centers in the U.S. but as the number of refugees increased and the dynamics to refugee resettlement changed, secondary migration and sponsorship scattered refugees throughout the country. Through the use of reports, hearings, accounts, newspapers, journal publications, and interviews, this study seeks to explain how America's initial advisory role and subsequent war in Vietnam sowed the seeds to the crisis, how that crisis evolved, and ultimately, the establishing of a sizable Vietnamese community in Wichita, KS.
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