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Between Two Cultures

Author : Mitra Das
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820474939
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Between Two Cultures written by Mitra Das and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Two Cultures: The Case of Cambodian Women in America is a study of Cambodian (Khmer) refugee women who settled in Lowell, Massachusetts, a city known for its immigrant history. This study describes the «journeys» made and the challenges faced by these newcomers as they attempted resettlement in an environment very different from their home country. Simply and lucidly, Mitra Das gives us captivating insights and an understanding of the experiences of this group of refugees from «different shores.» In so doing, she brings to life the processes and conditions that are important for adaptation to American society. It can be a valuable source for understanding the dynamics of migration, ethnicity, and gender and can be used for those courses in sociology. People outside of academia working with refugee and immigrant groups will also find this book to be a valuable resource.

Cambodians in Long Beach

Author : Susan Needham
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738556239
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Cambodians in Long Beach written by Susan Needham and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A relatively new immigrant group in the United States, Cambodians arrived in large numbers only after the 1975 U.S. military withdrawal from Southeast Asia. The region's resulting volatility included Cambodia's overthrow by the brutal Khmer Rouge. The four-year reign of terror by these Communist extremists resulted in the deaths of an estimated two million Cambodians in what has become known as the "killing fields." Many early Cambodian evacuees settled in Long Beach, which today contains the largest concentration of Cambodians in the United States. Later arrivals, survivors of the Khmer Rouge trauma, were drawn to Long Beach by family and friends, jobs, the coastal climate, and access to the Port of Long Beach's Asian imports. Long Beach has since become the political, economic, and cultural center of activities influencing Cambodian culture in the diaspora as well as Cambodia itself.

Cambodians in America

Author : Los Angeles County (Calif.). Commission on Human Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Cambodians in America written by Los Angeles County (Calif.). Commission on Human Relations and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grace after Genocide

Author : Carol A. Mortland
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785334719
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Grace after Genocide written by Carol A. Mortland and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from life in agrarian Cambodia to survival in post-industrial America, while maintaining their identities as Cambodians. The ethnography contrasts the lives of refugees who arrived in America after 1975, with their focus on Khmer traditions, values, and relations, with those of their children who, as descendants of the Khmer Rouge catastrophe, have struggled to become Americans in a society that defines them as different. The ethnography explores America’s mid-twentieth-century involvement in Southeast Asia and its enormous consequences on multiple generations of Khmer refugees.

Beyond the Killing Fields

Author : Usha Welaratna
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804723725
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Killing Fields written by Usha Welaratna and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, after years of civil war, Cambodians welcomed the Khmer Rouge. Once in power, the regime closed Cambodia to the outside world. Four years later, when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and defeated the Khmer Rouge, the world learned how the Khmer Rouge had turned the country into killing fields. After the Vietnamese takeover, thousands of Cambodians fled their homeland. This book presents the Cambodian refugee experience through nine first-person narratives of men, women and children who survived the holocaust and have begun new lives in America.

Cambodians in America

Author : Alice Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Cambodians in America written by Alice Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Khmer American

Author : Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520213491
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Khmer American written by Nancy J. Smith-Hefner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-01-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A richly detailed ethnography on Khmer social practices and concepts of socialization in the diaspora community that is unparalleled in the English language."—Kate Frieson, University of Victoria

Golden Bones

Author : Sichan Siv
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061983160
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Golden Bones written by Sichan Siv and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the United States battled the Communists of North Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s, the neighbouring country of Cambodia was attacked from within by dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge imprisoned, enslaved, and murdered the educated and intellectual members of the population, resulting in the harrowing "killing fields"–rice paddies where the harvest yielded nothing but millions of skulls. Young Sichan Siv–a target since he was a university graduate–was told by his mother to run and "never give up hope!" Captured and put to work in a slave labor camp, Siv knew it was only a matter of time before he would be worked to death–or killed. With a daring escape from a logging truck and a desperate run for freedom through the jungle, including falling into a dreaded pungi pit, Siv finally came upon a colorfully dressed farmer who said, "Welcome to Thailand." He spent months teaching English in a refugee camp in Thailand while regaining his strength, eventually Siv was allowed entry into the United States. Upon his arrival in the U.S., Siv kept striving. Eventually rising to become a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Siv returned with great trepidation to the killing fields of Cambodia in 1992 as a senior representative of the U.S. government. It was an emotionally overwhelming visit.

Cambodian Buddhism in the United States

Author : Carol A. Mortland
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143846665X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Cambodian Buddhism in the United States written by Carol A. Mortland and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambodian Buddhism in the United States is the first comprehensive anthropological study of Khmer Buddhism as practiced by Khmer refugees in the United States. Based on research conducted at Khmer temples and sites throughout the country over a period of three and a half decades, Carol A. Mortland uses participant observation, open-ended interviews, life histories, and dialogues with Khmer monks and laypeople to explore the everyday practice of Khmer religion, including spirit beliefs and healing rituals. This ethnography is enriched and supplemented by the use of historical accounts, reports, memoirs, unpublished life histories, and family memorabilia painstakingly preserved by refugees. Mortland also traces the changes that Cambodians have made to religion as they struggle with the challenges of living in a new country, learning English, and supporting themselves. The beliefs and practices of Khmer Muslims and Khmer Christians in the United States are also reviewed.

Buddha Is Hiding

Author : Aihwa Ong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520229983
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Buddha Is Hiding written by Aihwa Ong and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work tells the story of Cambodians whose route takes them from refugee camps to California's inner-city and high-tech enclaves. We see these refugees becoming new citizen-subjects through a dual process of being made and self-making, balancing religious salvation and entrepreneurial values.

Not Just Victims

Author : Audrey U. Kim
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071010
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Not Just Victims written by Audrey U. Kim and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Just Victims contains twelve oral histories based on conversations with Cambodian community leaders in eight American cities -- Long Beach, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and the Massachusetts towns of Fall River and Lowell. Unlike the dozens of autobiographies published by Cambodians that focus largely on their victimization, these narratives describe how Cambodian refugees have adapted to life in the United States. Sucheng Chan's extensive introduction provides a historical framework; she discusses the civil war (1970-75), the bloody Khmer Rouge revolution (1975-79), the border war during the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia (1979-89), and the additional travails faced by those who escaped to holding camps in Thailand. The book also includes an essay on oral history and a substantial bibliography.

Cambodian American Experiences

Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781465266613
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Cambodian American Experiences written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Caring for Cambodian Americans

Author : Sharon K. Ratliff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780815329893
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Caring for Cambodian Americans written by Sharon K. Ratliff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection will present works that offer illuminating perspectives on the remarkably diverse Asian American populations of the United States. As a population that is neither black nor white, the range of experiences of these groups, many of whom arrived as refugees, presents other perspectives on the cultural mosaic that constitutes the United States. Studies of Asian Americans sheds light on issues related to immigration, refugee policy, transnationalism, return migration, cultural citizenship, ethnic communities, community building, identity and group formation, panethnicity, race relations, gender and class, entrepreneurship, employment, representation, politics, adaptation, and acculturation. The writings in this collection are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines to provide a broad and informative array of insights on these fascinating and diverse populations.A practical guideThis comprehensive compilation of information on virtually every aspect of Cambodian culture is designed as a practical resource for health care and social service providers, hospitals, agencies, and students of intercultural studies. Comparatively researched in rural Cambodian villages and among refugees in the United States, this work is unique in its scope and detail about this American subculture.Explores challenges to traditionsSignificant challenges to traditional attitudes, beliefs, values, and expectations impact Cambodian refugees differentially according to generation, former family situation, and opportunities or barriers experienced in the United States. The horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime are reflected in Cambodians' frequent inability to adapt successfully to an alienenvironment. This work highlights the dynamic but stressful transitions currently experienced by this resilient people.Examines lifestyles and medical issuesThe book first explores the Cambodian religious spectrum both in Cambodia and in the United States, and provides

From the Land of Shadows

Author : Khatharya Um
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479876321
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book From the Land of Shadows written by Khatharya Um and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the country's population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million Cambodians fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand finding refuge in America. From the Land of Shadows surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma. Drawing on more than 250 interviews with survivors across the United States as well as in France and Cambodia, Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions, totalitarianism, transnationalism, and memory works to illuminate the pathology of power as well as the impact of auto-genocide on individual and collective healing. Exploring the interstices of home and exile, forgetting and remembering, From the Land of Shadows follows the ways in which Cambodian individuals and communities seek to rebuild connections frayed by time, distance, and politics in the face of this injurious history.

Survivors

Author : Sucheng Chan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071799
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Survivors written by Sucheng Chan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004-05-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 primarily economic as they continue to negotiate new cultures and deal with rapidly changing gender and intergenerational relations within their own families. Poverty, crime, and racial discrimination all have an impact on their experiences in America, and each is examined in depth. Although written as a history, this is a thoroughly multidisciplinary study, and Chan makes use of research from anthropology, sociology, psychology, medicine, social work, linguistics and education. She also captures the perspective of individual Cambodians. Drawing on interviews with more than fifty community leaders, a hundred government officials, and staff members in volunteer agencies, Survivors synthesizes the literature on Cambodian refugees, many of whom come from varying socioeconomic backgrounds. A major scholarly achievement, Survivors is unique in the Asian American canon for its memorable presentation of cutting-edge research and its interpretation of both sides of the immigration process.

Leaving the House of Ghosts

Author : Sarah Streed
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786481934
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Leaving the House of Ghosts written by Sarah Streed and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 17, 1975, after five years of civil war, the Khmer Rouge guerrillas invaded Cambodia's major cities and forced the residents on a mass exodus to the countryside. Their leader, Pol Pot, established a government based on terror to bring about his dream of an agrarian society where work was done by hand--without what he believed to be corruptive influences. By the time the Vietnamese captured Phnom Penh and ended this brutal experiment in communism in 1979, an estimated two million Cambodians were dead and hundreds of thousands had begun to flee the country for refugee camps in Thailand. Survivors of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge now living in the Midwest tell their stories in this work. Many of them were children during that time, unable to comprehend exactly what was happening and why, but now able to reveal the trauma they experienced. Noeun Nor and Sinn Lok recollect being wrenched from their families and put into labor camps around the age of five. Prum Nath talks about her mother encouraging her to eat the last grains of her family's rice. Sokhary You remembers giving birth on a mountain without a doctor or hospital and using rusty scissors to cut the umbilical cord.

Unsettled

Author : Eric Tang
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439911648
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Unsettled written by Eric Tang and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and ‘90s. Unsettled chronicles the unfinished odyssey of Bronx Cambodians, closely following one woman and her family for several years as they survive yet resist their literal insertion into concentrated Bronx poverty. Eric Tang tells the harrowing and inspiring stories of these refugees to make sense of how and why the displaced migrants have been resettled in the “hyperghetto.” He argues that refuge is never found, that rescue discourses mask a more profound urban reality characterized by racialized geographic enclosure, economic displacement and unrelenting poverty, and the criminalization of daily life. Unsettled views the hyperghetto as a site of extreme isolation, punishment, and confinement. The refugees remain captives in late-capitalist urban America. Tang ultimately asks: What does it mean for these Cambodians to resettle into this distinct time and space of slavery’s afterlife?