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193 Terms of Refuge: The Indochinese Exodus & The International Response

Robinson, W.C. (1998). Terms of Refuge The Indochinese Exodus and the International Response London: Zed Books Ltd. Copyright © United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1998.

Subjects (Group/Subheading): Migration and Resettlement/Government policy and actions

One liner: A detailed account of UNHCR activities in SE Asia 1975-1995

Date Published: 1998   Acquired: 2015-01-09

Source (Type/Source/Notes): Publication / Book /

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Author: Robinson, W. Courtland

Notes:

Although not a Canadian book, this book is essential to a study of the Canadian program because there are no Canadian books that cover the program right up to its end in 1996. This book is an account of UNHCR's activities in SE Asia and is relevant to Canada because Canada followed UNHCR's lead throughout.

This covers the responses of all countries that worked with UNHCR; the coverage of Canada is brief but precise. The US had its own additional programs and they are described briefly, too. The author works from both personal experience and extensive research. An appendix contains a good statistics summary.

One of the striking things that comes out in this book and others with an international perspective is that the movement of people from Vietnam to the SE Asian refugee camps was only one of several major refugee movements going on in the area at the time. UNHCR was dealing with all of them, except for the evacuation of Saigon, which UNHCR called an "evacuation" and left it as a problem for the US to deal with. Of all the refugee movements of the time, the Vietnamese boat people account for the most international resettlements. Since our project is focussed on the Vietnamese who came to Canada, there is a lot of material in this book that just provides context.

UNHCR supported the author's research and the copyright is held by UNHCR.

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