{"product_id":"in-camps-9780520343665","title":"In Camps","description":"\u003cb\u003eRobert Ferrell Book Prize Honorable Mention 2021, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations\u003cbr\u003e Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in History Honorable Mention 2022, Association for Asian American Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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. \u003ci\u003eIn Camps\u003c\/i\u003e raises key questions that remain all too relevant today: Who is a refugee? Who determines this status? And how does it change over time?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From Guam to Malaysia and the Philippines to Hong Kong,\u003ci\u003e In Camps\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eIn Camps\u003c\/i\u003e instead emphasizes the contingencies inherent in refugee policy and experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jana K. Lipman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48275284984059,"sku":"9780520343665","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_4aaac527-b298-47b2-9645-059dd09d3b18.jpg?v=1771244406","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/in-camps-9780520343665","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}