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Selected Bibliography: The Vietnam War and the Exodus of Refuge-Seekers from Vietnam Unlike most bibliographies that list the works authors have consulted, this bibliography is the first part of a stand-alone compilation to help readers find existing writings on various aspects of the Vietnam War, the exodus of refugeseekers , their detention in refugee camps, and their resettlement abroad, particularly in the United States. The last bibliography on the Vietnamese in America, Emergence of the Vietnamese American Communities: A Bibliography of WorksIncludingSelectedAnnotatedCitations, was published by the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1996. It did not include studies of the Vietnam War. Many new works on Vietnamese communities in the United States have appeared since then, so a more upto -date bibliography is warranted. Listed here are selected books and government documents about the Vietnam War; books and journal articles about Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese refuge-seekers in the countries of first asylum in Southeast Asia and in Hong Kong; overviews of the first phase of Vietnamese resettlement in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, France, Norway, and Sweden; the American public’s perception of and response to the refugee influx; books written in English by South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese political and military leaders who have retrospectively assessed the outcome of the Vietnam War; and book-length memoirs and short autobiographies and oral histories collected in anthologies. Studies of the postresettlement period will be listed in the second part of the bibliography, which will appear in my forthcoming book on the interactions between Vietnamese newcomers and the institutional structures that both facilitated and constrained their settlement in the United States. It will include books, government documents, and articles on U.S. policies regarding refugee resettlement; the bureaucracy created or modified to handle the influx; the economic, social, cultural, psychological, medical, and educational challenges the refugees confronted as they adapted to life in the United States; and studies of the elderly, women, and youth. Selected Bibliography 275 There are two big gaps in the existing literature. There are no systematic , large-scale studies of how the socioeconomic status of the refugees, immigrants, and transmigrants has changed over time. (There exists only a handful of studies on how they fared during the early years of their resettlement .) Even scarcer are works that analyze the political differences among Vietnamese in the United States and in other countries in the Vietnamese diaspora. Several hundred PHD dissertations and MA theses have been written about the Vietnamese who have come to the United States, but because of space limitation I list only those on topics not well covered in published writings. These include unaccompanied minors placed into foster homes after their arrival; Amerasians; former political prisoners who had been incarcerated in so-called re-education camps; the ethnic Chinese from Vietnam; and Vietnamese interactions with other racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Space limitation also prevents me from including tens of thousands of short articles published in newspapers and popular periodicals about the American phase of the wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as the refugee exodus. Of these short articles, only those I cite in the Endnotes are included in the two parts of the Bibliography. Adelman, Howard. 1980. The Indochinese Refugee Movement: The Canadian Experience . Toronto: Operation Lifeline. . 1982. Canada and the Indochinese Refugees. Regina, Canada: L.A. Weigl Educational Associates. Adelman, Howard, Charles Le Blanc, and Jean-Philippe Therien. 1980. “Canadian Policy on Indochinese Refugees.” In Southeast Asian Exodus: From Tradition to Resettlement. Ed. Elliot L. Tepper, 135–50. Ottawa: Canadian Asian Studies Association. Agency for International Development. 1975. “Operation Baylift: Report on the Emergency Movement of Vietnamese and Cambodian Orphans for Intercountry Adoption.” Washington, D.C.: Author. Allen, Rebecca and Harry H. Hiller. 1985. “The Social Organization of Migration : An Analysis of the Uprooting and Flight of Vietnamese Refugees.” International Migration 23, no. 4: 439–52. Anker, Deborah E. 1981. “The Forty Year Crisis: A Legislative History of the Refugee Act of 1980.” San Diego Law Review 19, no. 1: 9–89. Ashworth, Georgina. 1979. The Boat People and the Road People: Refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Sunbury, England: Quartermaine House. “Asia.” 1978. World Refugee Survey, 1978. New York: U.S. Committee for Refugees, 20–26. “Asia and the Pacific.” 1982. World Refugee Survey, 1982. New York: U.S. Committee for Refugees, 25–28. Asia Watch. 1991. “Indefinite Detention and Mandatory...

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