Voices from the Camps: Vietnamese Children Seeking Asylum

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Aid to Children Without Parents (ACWP), x, xi, 127, 131, 166–67, 177 Aid to Refugee Children Without Parents (ARCWP). See Aid to Children Without Parents Amerasians, and humanitarian resettlement, 154–59 Asylum seeker, defined, 3–4, 6 Baker, Pam, 169, 207n10. See also Refugee Concern Hong Kong Ban Thad (refugee camp, Site 2, Thailand), 34, 119, 168 Best interests of the child, xii, 1–5, 6, 17, 39, 92, 119–22, 127–30, 182–84 Binh Thuan Province (Vietnam), case history of three repatriated siblings from, 119–27 Center for Assistance to Displaced Persons (CADP), 17, 40, 99–102 passim, 108, 169. See also Pascale, Le Thi Triu Ceyrac, Pierre, 169–71 Chi Ma Wan (refugee camp, Hong Kong), 25– 28, 73, 95–96 Children: abuse and neglect of, 20–22, 24–28, 68–70, 82–84, 90, 111, 112, 123–25, 160, 165, 178–82, 184, 212–13n1; assistance to, x, xi, 166–77; metaphors used by, 56–59; and psychological responses to abuse and neglect, 41–42, 82–84, 179. See also Binh • 233 • I n d e x Included in this index are the names of some public figures who were directly involved in the care and protection of unaccompanied minors. All other commentators and critics are mentioned in the notes and references. Thuan Province, case history of three repatriated siblings from; Department of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs; European Community International Program; Family Reunion Program; Nordic Assistance to Repatriated Vietnamese; Refugee camps; Resettlement; Unaccompanied minors; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Comprehensive Plan of Action, 12–18, 29, 38, 46, 97, 105, 119, 182, 190 Culture: as concept, misuse of 123, 125, 128–29; and context of abuse, 179–80; questions about relativism of, 125–26, 164–65, 211n2, 211–12n4; and rights, 182–84; Vietnamese, 167, 180 Data collection, methods of, ix–xiv Department of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs, Vietnam (DELISA), 110, 113, 123, 124, 127; and repatriation, 111–19 passim, 123–25, 130–37 European Community International Program (ECIP), 108, 111, 132–34 passim. Family, Vietnamese, 31, 36, 37, 56–59, 123–26, 129, 167, 180, 186 Family Reunion Program (Operation Family Reunion), and repatriation, 113–14 Foreign Affairs O‹ce (Vietnam), 172 Friends of Hue Foundation, xi, 177 Galang (refugee camp, Indonesia) 32, 98, 168 Gow, Anne Wagley, 89, 91–92, 95 High Island (refugee camp, Hong Kong), 22, 63–65 Hong Kong, refugee camps in. See Chi Ma Wan; High Island; Pillar Point; Shek Kong; Tai A Chau; Whitehead Hue. See Thua Thien Hue, Humanitarian Operation in Indonesia, refugee camps in. See Galang International Social Service (ISS), Hong Kong, 60, 169. See also Yau, Stephen Malaysia, refugee camps in. See Pulau Bidong; Sungei Besi Mougne, Christine, 90–91, 109, 184–85 Ngo Van Ha, court case of, 114–15, 207n10 Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, court case of, 91–92 Nordic Assistance to Repatriated Vietnamese (NARV), 108–19, 121–27, 187 Ogata, Sadako (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), 129 Orderly Departure Program (ODP), 11–12 Palawan (refugee camp, Philippines) x, 22, 40–56 , 60, 68–71, 80–82, 98–99, 149–50, 168–69; humane treatment in, 4, 15–17, 40, 48–56, 101–2, 169 Pascale, Le Thi Triu, 16, 169. See also Center for Assistance to Displaced Persons People’s Committee of Hue City (Vietnam), 172 Phanat Nikhom (refugee camp, Thailand), 65– 66, 77–79 Philippines, refugee camps in. See Palawan Pillar Point (refugee camp, Hong Kong), 73–74 Pulau Bidong (refugee camp, Malaysia), 9–10, 31, 67, 142–43 Refugee camps: alleged corruption in, 93–95, 97, 98, 205nn17,20; conditions in, 9–10, 19–24, 32–36, 40–42; criticisms of, 28–32, 41, 82–84; hunger and rations in, 21, 22, 234 • I N D E X 24, 27, 28, 31, 36, 40–42, 56, 61, 68–70, 75; illness in, 24; impacts of on children, 28–36, 41–42, 56–59, 82–84, 100–101, 159, 160; and resistance to authority, 14–15, 25, 26–28, 38, 51, 55, 63–67, 71–73; sexual abuse in, 22, 24, 32, 33, 34, 35, 42, 54, 67, 83–84, 160, 201n13, 202n16, 205n17; violence in, 20, 22, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 51, 70, 83–84, 160, 201n13 Refugee Concern Hong Kong, 169, 207n10. See also Baker, Pam Refugees: compared with economic and illegal migrants, 6, 12–13, 15, 195n12; defined, 4, 6, 194n7, 195nn9,10; history of in Indochina , 3...