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A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s We thank the Mackintosh Foundation/US Bui Doi Committee, which granted us funds to initiate our project for repatriated unaccompanied minors and other children at risk in Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam. We are grateful to San Jose State University for granting James M. Freeman a sabbatical leave in 1998 to work on this book. We wish to thank the following organizations and government agencies for their assistance and for granting us access to persons and sites that otherwise we could not have visited. We have been critical of some of these organizations ; their magnanimous assistance to us in light of our differences is noteworthy. In 1991, the O‹ce of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) provided initial access for Nguyen Dinh Huu to visit repatriated unaccompanied minors in Vietnam and instructed its missions in Hong Kong, Vietnam, and the other Southeast Asian countries we visited to meet with us. Nordic Assistance to Repatriated Vietnamese (NARV) took us to visit repatriated unaccompanied minors in North and South Vietnam, opened their records for us, and discussed their projects with us at length. The United States Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, and the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong responded to our several queries and allowed us to interview some of their o‹cers concerned with refugee affairs. The Refugee Status Review Board, Hong Kong, granted us an extensive interview with their chairman. Many other organizations worked with us in our projects and helped us with aspects of this book. We wish to thank Agency for Volunteer Services, Hong Kong; Caritas, Thailand; Catholic O‹ce for Emergency Relief and Refugees, Thailand; Center for Assistance to Displaced Persons, Philippines; Community and Family Service International, Hong Kong and Philippines; International Social Services, Hong Kong Branch; Jesuit Refugee Service, Philippines; Joint • xvii • Voluntary Agency, Hong Kong; Red Crescent Society, Malaysia; Refugee Concern, Hong Kong. The following countries kindly allowed us to visit their refugee and detention camps: Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. We were given access to every camp we asked to visit. The camps are listed below. We especially wish to thank Vietnamese o‹cials in Vietnam, who allowed us to visit the repatriated minors and to establish a project for their assistance. In Vietnam, we were warmly welcomed and assisted by o‹cials in the following agencies and organizations, listed alphabetically: Committee for Protection and Care of Children, Hanoi and Thua Thien Hue; o‹ces of the Department of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs (DELISA) in Thua Thien Hue and Binh Thuan Provinces; Institute for International Relations/Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Institute of Sociology/National Center for Social Sciences; Ministry of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs (MOLISA); People’s Aid Coordination Committee (PACCOM); People’s Committee of Thua Thien Hue Province; People’s Committee of Hue City; Vietnamese Fund for Children. In this book, we use the real names of persons who are public figures, or who have identified themselves through their writings. We refer to all other people by their titles (Field O‹cer, Colonel, etc.), or, in the case of the children or adult narrators, by pseudonyms. We wish to thank the many persons who kindly granted us interviews or helped us in other ways. We list them in alphabetical order. Vietnamese persons are listed in the traditional way with their surnames first unless they use European names. Aziz Ahamed, Daniel Alberman, Ramon Arguelles, Jahanshah Asadi, Pam Baker, Kate Balian, Catherine Bertrand, Frances W. Blackwell, Joseph M. Bracken, Brian J. Bresnihan, Stenn Bronee, Christopher J. Carpenter, Pierre Ceyrac, Craig Clarke, John W. Crowley, Dao Huy Ngoc, Charles N. Darrah, Anne Dawson-Shepherd, J. A. English-Lueck, Peter Hansen, Luke Hardy, Alice Ho, Kathleen G. Howe, Brian Hurlock, Eugenia Janias, Kersten Karlen, Kirstie Laine, Le Van Anh, Veronique LeBlanc, Machiko Kondo, Carole McDonald, Anne McDonnell, Christie McKenzie, Carolyn McLure, Erik Bo Mikkelsen, Dan Miller, Morgan Morris, Irene Mortensen, Jacques Mouchet, Christine Mougne, Nghiem Xuan Tue, Nguyen H. Duyen, Nguyen Nhien, Paul Nguyen, Nguyen Thao, Nguyen Thiet, Naoko Obi, Jon Olson, Guy Ouellet, Adrielle Panares, Pascale Le Thi Triu, Pham Thi Hoa, Imran Riza, Goren Rosen, A. Shaharbi bin Shaari, Tove Skarstein , Sumaryo, Dan Tate, Bounlert Tharachatr, Tran Thi Hoang, Tuong Lai, xviii • A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S Adrie van Gelderen, Vo Van Hieu, Vuong Tuoc, Jane Warburton, Hans...

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