Título: Voices From the Camps
Autor: James M. Freeman
Sinopse: Wave after wave of political and economic refugees poured out of Vietnam beginning in the late 1970s, overwhelming the resources available to receive them. Squalid conditions prevailed in detention centers and camps in Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia, where many refugees spent years languishing in poverty, neglect, and abuse while supposedly being protected by an international consortium of caregivers. Voices from the Camps tells the story of the most vulnerable of these refugees: children alone, either orphaned or separated from their families. Combining anthropology and social work with advocacy for unaccompanied children everywhere, James M. Freeman and Nguyen Dinh Huu present the voices and experiences of Vietnamese refugee children neglected and abused by the system intended to help them. Authorities in countries of first asylum, faced with thousands upon thousands of increasingly frightened, despairing, and angry people, needed to determine on a case-by-case basis whether they should be sent back to Vietnam or be certified as legitimate refugees and allowed to proceed to countries of resettlement. The international community, led by UNHCR, devised a well-intentioned screening system. Unfortunately, as Freeman and Nguyen demonstrate, it failed unaccompanied children. The hardships these children endured are disturbing, but more disturbing is the story of how the governments and agencies that set out to care for them eventually became the children’s tormenters. When Vietnam, after years of refusing to readmit illegal emigrants, reversed its policy, the international community began doing everything it could to force them back to Vietnam. Cutting rations, closing schools, separating children from older relations and other caregivers, relocating them in order to destroy any sense of stability--the authorities employed coercion and effective abuse with distressing ease, all in the name of the "best interests" of the children. While some children e Acabamento: Brochura. Peso: 262g. Dimensões: 23 x 16 x 1.
Contexto da obra
Dentro do catálogo, este livro pode ser situado a partir do tema, da autoria e da proposta editorial. “Voices From the Camps”, de James M. Freeman, publicado pela editora University of Washington Press, em 2005 e com 235 páginas, integra a categoria História Geral. Esse enquadramento pode tornar mais clara a proposta do livro e o tipo de interesse que ele costuma despertar.
Editora: University of Washington Press
Páginas: 235
Ano: 2005
Edição: 1ª EDICAO
ISBN:
ISBN13: 9780295983592
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora University of Washington Press costumam oferecer uma leitura que combina rigor acadêmico com narrativas que exploram profundamente contextos históricos, culturais e ambientais. O catálogo apresenta obras que transitam entre análises detalhadas, como estudos botânicos e jurídicos, e relatos pessoais ou coletivos que trazem vozes indígenas e minoritárias, criando um contraste entre o mais informativo e o mais narrativo. A experiência de leitura frequentemente envolve um tom reflexivo e denso, mas também acessível, que convida o leitor a compreender complexidades sociais, naturais e políticas, muitas vezes a partir de perspectivas regionais específicas, como o Noroeste Pacífico ou comunidades indígenas do Alasca.
