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Not Just Victims:

Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States
  • ISBN-13: 9780252071010
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • Edited by Sucheng Chan, Introduction by Sucheng Chan, Other Audrey U. Kim
  • Price: AUD $49.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2003
  • Format: Paperback 336 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
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Not Just Victims contains twelve oral histories based on conversations with Cambodian community leaders in eight American cities -- Long Beach, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and the Massachusetts towns of Fall River and Lowell. Unlike the dozens of autobiographies published by Cambodians that focus largely on their victimization, these narratives describe how Cambodian refugees have adapted to life in the United States. Sucheng Chan's extensive introduction provides a historical framework; she discusses the civil war (1970-75), the bloody Khmer Rouge revolution (1975-79), the border war during the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia (1979-89), and the additional travails faced by those who escaped to holding camps in Thailand. The book also includes an essay on oral history and a substantial bibliography.
Long Beach California - the capital of Cambodian America; on Buddhism and psychotherapy; law enforcement issues; how Massachusetts became a refugee-friendly state; Lowell Massachusetts - the ''Long Beach of the east coast''; getting established in Fall River Massachusetts; Cambodians in Philadelphia; the Cambodian network council; Cambodians in Portland Oregon; Cambodians in Tacoma Washington; a holistic approach to mental health; The Khmer Krom.
ADVANCE PRAISE ''Not Just Victims is of very high quality as a piece of scholarship. The review of the literature on Cambodia and Cambodian refugees is extraordinary. The book contains easily the single best synthesis of Cambodian history, migration and resettlement I have ever read.'' -- Jeremy Hein, author of From Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia: A Refugee Experience in the United States
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