This text is part of The New Immigrants Series edited by Nancy Foner. This groundbreaking new series fills the gap in knowledge relating to today's immigrants, how these groups are attempting to redefine their cultures while here, and their contribution to a new and changing America.

Changing Identities: Vietnamese Americans 1975 - 1995

Foner, Nancy

Freeman, James M.

History

Pearson

Wave after wave of political and economic refugees poured out of Vietnam beginning in the late 1970s, overwhelming the resources available to receive them. Squalid conditions prevailed in detention centers and camps in Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia, where many refugees spent years languishing in poverty, neglect, and abuse while supposedly being protected by an international consortium of caregivers. Voices from the Camps tells the story of the most vulnerable of these refugees: children alone, either orphaned or separated from their families. Combining anthropology and social work with advocacy for unaccompanied children everywhere, James M. Freeman and Nguyen Dinh Huu present the voices and experiences of Vietnamese refugee children neglected and abused by the system intended to help them. Authorities in countries of first asylum, faced with thousands upon thousands of increasingly frightened, despairing, and angry people, needed to determine on a case-by-case basis whether they should be sent back to Vietnam or be certified as legitimate refugees and allowed to proceed to countries of resettlement. The international community, led by UNHCR, devised a well-intentioned screening system. Unfortunately, as Freeman and Nguyen demonstrate, it failed unaccompanied children. The hardships these children endured are disturbing, but more disturbing is the story of how the governments and agencies that set out to care for them eventually became the children’s tormenters. When Vietnam, after years of refusing to readmit illegal emigrants, reversed its policy, the international community began doing everything it could to force them back to Vietnam. Cutting rations, closing schools, separating children from older relations and other caregivers, relocating them in order to destroy any sense of stability--the authorities employed coercion and effective abuse with distressing ease, all in the name of the “best interests” of the children. While some children eventually managed to construct a decent life in Vietnam or elsewhere, including the United States, all have been scarred by their refugee experience and most are still struggling with the legacy. Freeman and Nguyen’s presentation and analysis of this sobering chapter in recent history is a cautionary tale and a call to action.

Voices from the Camps: Vietnamese Children Seeking Asylum (Donald R. Ellegood International Publications)

Dinh Huu, Nguyen

Asia

University of Washington Press

Wave after wave of political and economic refugees poured out of Vietnam beginning in the late 1970s, overwhelming the resources available to receive them. Squalid conditions prevailed in detention centers and camps in Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia, where many refugees spent years languishing in poverty, neglect, and abuse while supposedly being protected by an international consortium of caregivers. Voices from the Camps tells the story of the most vulnerable of these refugees: children alone, either orphaned or separated from their families. Combining anthropology and social work with advocacy for unaccompanied children everywhere, James M. Freeman and Nguyen Dinh Huu present the voices and experiences of Vietnamese refugee children neglected and abused by the system intended to help them. Authorities in countries of first asylum, faced with thousands upon thousands of increasingly frightened, despairing, and angry people, needed to determine on a case-by-case basis whether they should be sent back to Vietnam or be certified as legitimate refugees and allowed to proceed to countries of resettlement. The international community, led by UNHCR, devised a well-intentioned screening system. Unfortunately, as Freeman and Nguyen demonstrate, it failed unaccompanied children. The hardships these children endured are disturbing, but more disturbing is the story of how the governments and agencies that set out to care for them eventually became the children’s tormenters. When Vietnam, after years of refusing to readmit illegal emigrants, reversed its policy, the international community began doing everything it could to force them back to Vietnam. Cutting rations, closing schools, separating children from older relations and other caregivers, relocating them in order to destroy any sense of stability--the authorities employed coercion and effective abuse with distressing ease, all in the name of the “best interests” of the children. While some children eventually managed to construct a decent life in Vietnam or elsewhere, including the United States, all have been scarred by their refugee experience and most are still struggling with the legacy. Freeman and Nguyen’s presentation and analysis of this sobering chapter in recent history is a cautionary tale and a call to action.

With the help of an American anthropologist, a member of the Bauri caste in Orissa describes his daily life and socioeconomic milieu as a member of India's lowest social class

Untouchable: An Indian Life History

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Stanford Univ Pr

Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives

The first-person narratives in this book provide a glimpse into the personal lives of fourteen Vietnamese-Americans who were devastated by war and the refugee experience but who were able to create new lives in a new cultural environment.

Americas

Stanford University Press

Scarcity and opportunity in an Indian village (The Kiste and Ogan social change series in anthropology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Cummings Pub. Co.

This study reveals the complex and elaborate social and ritual life of the people of Kapileswar, an Indian temple village, and provides a sobering glimpse of the pervasive effects of poverty, natural calamities, and scarce resources in stifling modernization. It also contains an array of statistical data as well as lengthy statements by the villagers themselves about their own lifestyles. Freeman's approach to life in a contemporary Indian village is sensitive, yet admirably objective and precise. He has discovered just the right combination of scientific and humanistic approaches to appeal to a wide range of readers.

Scarcity and Opportunity in an Indian Village

Anthropology

Waveland Pr Inc.

Manners and Customs of the Bible

This is a valuable resourse book through the Bible, explaining many customs practiced in Bible times. Not only is it easy to understand, but it is also filled with many helpful illustrations.

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Bridge-Logos Publishers

For over 100 years, Freeman's Manners and Customs of the Bible has been the serious Bible student's choice. Short of enrolling in a course in ancient Hebrew civilization, The New Manners &amp; Customs of the Bible is the quickest, easiest, and most enjoyable way to understand the people and culture of the Bible. It is an invaluable key to unlocking a complete and accurate understanding of Scripture that is often hidden in ancient Hebrew culture. Do you know, for example: What significance earrings had in Biblical times? What the sources were for the waters for Noah's Flood? What Jesus really meant by the "eye of the needle"? What it means for Christ to wear "many crowns"? What Paul was referring to by a "triumphal procession"? What the differences are between a modern and a Biblical wedding celebration? All these questions and hundreds more are answered in The New Manners &amp; Customs of the Bible. It's a reference book that belongs on the bookshelf of every earnest Bible student and teacher.

The New Manners and Customs of the Bible (Pure Gold Classics)

World

Have you ever wondered how a camel can go through the eye of a needle? How the four men got their paralytic friend through the roof to Jesus? What it means to greet one another with a holy kiss? This book answers these questions and others. You will learn:
<ul>
<li>What it meant to be adopted in Bible times</li>
<li>Who the magi were</li>
<li>How lots were used</li>
<li>How the potter formed clay</li>
<li>What a whited sepulcher is</li>
<li>What fiery darts are</li>
<li>What it means to be espoused</li>
<li>Why Jesus is crowned with many crowns</li>
<li>What it means to be engraved on the palm of God’s hand</li>
</ul>This valuable resource goes book by book through the Bible, explaining many customs practiced in Bible times. Not only is it easy to understand, but it is also filled with many helpful illustrations. This useful tool will greatly aid anyone wanting to understand more about the Bible.

Whitaker House

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Books by Freeman, James M.

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Changing Identities: Vietnamese Americans 1975 - 1995

Voices from the Camps: Vietnamese Children Seeking Asylum (Donald R. Ellegood International Publications)

Voices from the Camps: Vietnamese Children Seeking Asylum (Donald R. Ellegood International Publications)

Untouchable: An Indian Life History

Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives

Scarcity and opportunity in an Indian village (The Kiste and Ogan social change series in anthropology)

Scarcity and Opportunity in an Indian Village

Manners and Customs of the Bible

The New Manners and Customs of the Bible (Pure Gold Classics)

Manners and Customs of the Bible