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The Critical Refugee Studies Collective
Refugee
November 24, 2018. By Maya Espiritu
Artist Biography
Asian American artist
Interested in bright, bold, and colorful artwork
Receive a bachelor in Psychology (focus on child development)
She is a first grade teacher now
Meaning
Depicts the journey and experiences of the refugee boat people
Emphasize the tumultuous and dangerous nature of the sea
United State
Omaha Talons Academy
Teach young refugees how to play basketball
basketball provide them one pathway toward a college education
Since that most of them are below the poverty line
Nebraska is home to the largest South Sudanese refugee population outside of Africa
Militarized Silence
MAY 2, 2019 By Ryan Nguyen
Purpose of the artwork -- to show the physical aftermath is as intergenerational as the psychological aftermath of the war.
For some of the Vietnamese people, the U.S. military has taken away their ability to tell their stories of escape and survival.
Ability to speak
Agent Orange
Cause the birth defects, disabilities, and other toxic effects
Environmental degradation
For some of them, they lose the ability to listen to a story
The cannon to fire takes away the ability to listen
Become the generation, the newborn baby might not able to make a sound or hear a sound
Expectation of the art work
Vietnamese-American viewers to think
Not only think about those who lost their life
But also think about those people who still survive even though they lost the important parts of themselves.
Vaan Nguyen
1977-1979
Israel granted asylum and eventual citizenship to the first non-Jewish population
Vietnamese Israelis
Face a lot of racial discrimination
Mistaken for temporary laborers from Thailand or the Philippines
They didn’t have citizenship
Vaan Nguyen
Born in Israeli
She published her first poems in 2005
First Hebrew-language collection of poetry published by a Vietnamese Israeli
Explore themes of sexuality, travel, disease, displacement, and alienation
Others Float as Others Fly
OCTOBER 1, 2020, By Neud's Saint-Cyr
The story of the author’s uncle’s journey to America as a refugee.
Her uncle was the first person in their family to come to America and he did so by boat during the late 1970s in an attempt to escape Haiti’s oppressive regime at the time
He made it so that everyone else in our family was able to come to the U.S. by plane, including herself.
Journey
Live in Haiti,
his family and he was poor
and his mom was a widow, trying to make money on her own to feed the seven boys and send them to school.
Decided to join his cousin to go to America when
he's 20.
Running out of gas
Full of good food
.
Somewhere comfortable to sleep.
he thoughts he was
destined for this trip.
They saw a
U.S. cargo ship
while they were running out of gas, and they settled in the ship.
They stop at
Cuba
due to the
hurricane season
Everyone
lied
about their
names
to the officials just to make sure
nothing to risk
their chances of
being able to get to America.
Aftermath
He began to work as a
fruit picker
.
To get paid, he would have to pick enough fruit to
fill a bin that was the size of a large room
, he did not even fill up half of it for the first day. -> Couldn't get paid well.
Due to the
Jimmy Carter administration
, his uncle was able to establish himself in America
legally as a refugee.
He found out that there was a
night school
that he could go to and allow him to get his
G.E.D.
to go to college.
Attending night school and going to work
was hard.
He believed that was the
sacrifice
that he needed to
make something out of himself in America.
He took
11 years
to complete his undergraduate degree, and graduated with his master’s degree
at the age of 34.
He was able to achieve his childhood dream o
f taking care of his mom.
Haiti became politically unstable, again, and the author’s family and her were
forced to leave Haiti,
just like her uncle
.
But because of her uncle, they
had visas
and were
able to fly to America easily.
Bidong Refugee Camp
1975-1991
250,000
Vietnamese refugees had passed through or resided in the Bidong Refugee Camp on Bidong Island.
In Refuges
Children in the camp learned
new skills
like
hand sewing
.
Houses were shacks loosely constructed of wood and covered with tarps that
made for hot days and cold nights.
Orgainized well on
efficient food & water distribution system
.
June 1979
The refugee camp was said to be the->Most densely populated area on earth with about
40,000
refugees
crowded into a flat area no larger than a football field
.
The author believes that: " Refugees were
not just victims
, and their stories
did not only encompass their hardships.
Their stories said
little about their struggles
, but
everything about their strength
. Just like the author’s uncle,
refugees are heroes
, if not revolutionaries. They
take
on
journeys
,
sometimes dangerous,
for the
greater good of not only themselves but for future generations
also."
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