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- Refugee Crises, 1945–2000
- Publications of the German Historical Institute
- Refugee Crises, 1945–2000
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Responses to Refugee Crises in International Comparison
- Part I The Postwar and Decolonization Moment
- Part II Refugee Movements during the Cold War and beyond
- 7 The 1956–1957 Hungarian Refugee Crisis and the Role of the Canadian Press in Opening the Doors to Asylum Seekers
- 8 Responding to and Resettling the Vietnamese Boat People
- 9 US State and Civil Society Responses to Salvadoran Refugees, 1980–1991
- 10 The Plight of the First Post–Cold War Refugees
- 11 Rwandan Refugees in Tanzania, 1994–1996
- Part III Afterword
- Index
8 - Responding to and Resettling the Vietnamese Boat People
Perspectives from the United States and West Germany
from Part II - Refugee Movements during the Cold War and beyond
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2023
- Refugee Crises, 1945–2000
- Publications of the German Historical Institute
- Refugee Crises, 1945–2000
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Responses to Refugee Crises in International Comparison
- Part I The Postwar and Decolonization Moment
- Part II Refugee Movements during the Cold War and beyond
- 7 The 1956–1957 Hungarian Refugee Crisis and the Role of the Canadian Press in Opening the Doors to Asylum Seekers
- 8 Responding to and Resettling the Vietnamese Boat People
- 9 US State and Civil Society Responses to Salvadoran Refugees, 1980–1991
- 10 The Plight of the First Post–Cold War Refugees
- 11 Rwandan Refugees in Tanzania, 1994–1996
- Part III Afterword
- Index
Summary
Between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s, more than one million Vietnamese “boat people” fled from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam by crossing the South China Sea. Some 700,000 were permanently resettled more than two dozen countries across the world. This essay compares the resettlement of Vietnamese refugees in West Germany and the United States to illuminate similarities and differences in international and local responses to the influx of this refugee population within the context of the Cold War.Covering topics such as government responses, humanitarian interventions, public perception/reception, and refugee networks in the US and West Germany, the essay emphasizes connections overlooked in previous studies that examine Vietnamese boat people resettlement in only one national context.It underscores the multilateral impacts of the Vietnamese boat people exodus and its legacies in contemporary Germany and America.
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- Refugee Crises, 1945-2000Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison, pp. 181 - 208Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020