The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora

Yuk Wah Chan is Assistant Professor at the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong.

Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, and in particular in Hong Kong, this book sheds new light on refugee settlement and different patterns of host-guest interactions which will have implications for refugee studies elsewhere.

Part 1: Revisiting an Era of Refugees and Boat People 1. Revisiting the Vietnamese Refugee Era: An Asian Perspective from Hong Kong 2. Rethinking the Vietnamese Exodus: Hong Kong in Comparative Perspective 3. The Boat People Crisis of 1978-1979 and the Hong Kong Experience Examined through the Ethnic Chinese Dimension 4. In Search of History: The Chinese in South Vietnam, 1945-1975 Part 2: Hong Kong Vietnamese Boat People and Their Settlement 5. The Vietnamese Minority: Boatpeople Settlement in Hong Kong 6. Vietnamese Youth and Their Adaptation in Hong Kong 7. Thanh Loc- Hong Kong's Refugee Screening System: From A Refugee Perspective 8. Visions of Resistance and Survival from Hong Kong Detention Camps 9. Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong: Visual Images and Stories Part 3: Hong Kong and Beyond 10. Sojourn in Hong Kong, Settlement in America: Experiences of Chinese-Vietnamese Refugees 11. Dark Tourism, Diasporic Memory and Disappeared History: The Contested Meaning of the Former Indochinese Refugee Camp at Pulau Galang 12. The Repatriated: From Refugee Migration to Marriage Migration 13. Epilogue