Capricious Worlds: Vietnamese Life JourneysLIT Verlag Münster, 2005 - 209 pages Capricious Worlds covers a period of 20 years of exile. Through the life journeys of Vietnamese refugees, the book presents a world rich in experience and wisdom, where the will to survive is complemented by the skills to do so. Individuals must learn to conquer systems that transform human beings into numbers, and men, women and children into de-personalized figures. The transformations render an unsettling peace that refugees struggle against, inspired by a search for recognition, a search not only for what is lost, but also for what might yet be. The book is about refugees en route to, and in, Norway. It also speaks to the challenges of being exiled in general: a reality for 40 million refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide. |
Contents
LVI | 105 |
LVII | 107 |
LX | 108 |
LXI | 109 |
LXII | 110 |
LXIII | 112 |
LXIV | 114 |
LXV | 116 |
X | 18 |
XI | 21 |
XII | 23 |
XIII | 25 |
XIV | 33 |
XV | 34 |
XVI | 35 |
XVII | 36 |
XVIII | 37 |
XIX | 38 |
XX | 39 |
XXI | 40 |
XXII | 41 |
XXIII | 43 |
XXIV | 45 |
XXV | 46 |
XXVI | 48 |
XXVII | 50 |
XXVIII | 55 |
XXX | 57 |
XXXI | 63 |
XXXII | 65 |
XXXIII | 66 |
XXXV | 68 |
XXXVI | 70 |
XXXVII | 72 |
XXXVIII | 74 |
XXXIX | 75 |
XL | 76 |
XLI | 77 |
XLII | 79 |
XLIII | 80 |
XLIV | 81 |
XLV | 83 |
XLVI | 84 |
XLVII | 87 |
XLVIII | 90 |
XLIX | 92 |
L | 93 |
LI | 96 |
LII | 99 |
LIII | 100 |
LIV | 103 |
LV | 104 |
LXVI | 118 |
LXVII | 120 |
LXVIII | 121 |
LXIX | 123 |
LXX | 124 |
LXXI | 126 |
LXXII | 127 |
LXXIII | 129 |
LXXIV | 132 |
LXXV | 134 |
LXXVI | 136 |
LXXVII | 138 |
LXXVIII | 141 |
LXXX | 142 |
LXXXI | 143 |
LXXXII | 145 |
LXXXIII | 147 |
LXXXIV | 149 |
LXXXV | 150 |
LXXXVI | 152 |
LXXXVII | 155 |
LXXXIX | 156 |
XC | 157 |
XCI | 159 |
XCII | 160 |
XCIII | 164 |
XCIV | 167 |
XCV | 168 |
XCVI | 169 |
XCVII | 170 |
XCVIII | 172 |
XCIX | 173 |
C | 175 |
CI | 176 |
CII | 179 |
CIII | 180 |
CIV | 181 |
CV | 182 |
CVI | 183 |
CVII | 185 |
CVIII | 195 |
CIX | 199 |
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adults Anh's arrivals asylum seekers August-group background Bataan become behavior Bergen biographies camp dwellers challenges Chapter Chi Ma Wan chickenwing child cocks cohort compatriots culture dance disco discotheque established Vietnamese exile milieu experiences fear feel flee flight friends homeland Hong Kong Hong Kong government Humane Deterrence Policy images Knudsen language lives memories middle-class namese natives needs networks newcomers Nguyen Nguyen Du Norway Norwegian Norwegian language offered one's Oslo pain parents past peace perceptions person Philippines positions prison camps problems professionals reception center refugee camps refugee status refugee's regime relief machinery relief workers remain repatriation resettlement rience roles Saigon screening sense shared silence society speak Stop making sense story strangers strategies struggle style survive Tale of Kieu tango tell terror threatening tion told transit UNHCR Viet Vietnam Vietnamese refugees youth
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