In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates (IN-PERSON)

1132 Royal Street,New Orleans LA 70116

08 December, 2021

Description

Taking the example of Vietnamese at the end of the Vietnam War, this talk will explore how Vietnamese experienced refugee camps. *This is an in-person lecture at Gallier House. With the visible numbers of refugees in Afghanistan and along the U.S. southern border, refugees have been in the news. What is the history of U.S. refugee policy? Who is a refugee and why? Taking the example of Vietnamese at the end of the Vietnam War, this talk will explore how Vietnamese experienced refugee camps in Southeast Asia and the Pacific before coming to the United States. It examines refugee activism in the camps and in the diaspora, and it explains why this history remains relevant today. This event is made possible by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Funding for 2021 Rebirth grants has been administered by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) and provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.” “Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.” Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses, managed by The Woman’s Exchange, preserves two 19th-century French Quarter homes and, through their architecture, collections, and history, inspires discourse about our collective past and its relevance to our present and future. Visitors, students, and researchers explore such diverse topics as the lives of the houses’ owners and enslaved people, free people of color, open-hearth cooking, mourning rituals, and the entrepreneurial pursuits of women.