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Survivors: CAMBODIAN REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES (Asian American Experience) by Sucheng Chan; Roger Daniels is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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In this clear, comprehensive, and unflinching study, Sucheng Chan invites us to follow the saga of Cambodian refugees striving to distance themselves from a series of cataclysmic events in their homeland. Survivors tracks not only the Cambodians' fight for life lives but also their battle for self-definition in new American surroundings. Unparalleled in scope, Survivors begins with the Cambodians' experiences under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, following them through escape to refugee camps in Thailand and finally to the United States, where they try to build new lives in the wake of massive trauma. Their struggle becomes primarily economic as they continue to negotiate new cultures and deal with rapidly changing gender and intergenerational relations within their own families. Poverty, crime, and racial discrimination all have an impact on their experiences in America, and each is examined in depth. Although written as a history, this is a thoroughly multidisciplinary study, and Chan makes use of research from anthropology, sociology, psychology, medicine, social work, linguistics and education. She also captures the perspective of individual Cambodians. Drawing on interviews wit

Author

Sucheng Chan; Roger Daniels

Publisher

Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252029202

Subjects

History, Sociology, Biography

Rating

4.33 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14