Notes: This tells a story mainly from the American perspective. The US was the only receiving country that had its own programs outside of the UNHCR programs, so in terms of the Canadian story this book just provides some context, but no specifically Canadian information. US information is often relevant to the extent that Canada and the US had a common understanding of the situation, but different motivations and programs for responding to it. This is told from the perspective of an American who was involved in working with refugees in southeast Asia. . From the perspective of someone who was on the ground at the time, the humanitarian crisis in Cambodia was far greater than that in Vietnam, but the difference was that Vietnam was expelling successful entrepreneurs while the Cambodians were poor farmers who could not reasonably be resettled in western countries. Although published in 2010, the book covers events only up to 1982, often using references published later. The author does not reveal why he chose to put "1975-1982" in the title; presumably that's when the refugee workers that he is covering were at work. He does mention in the introduction that refugees continued to flow (to the US) until 2000. |