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June 4, 1-3 p.m. Odd Fellows Hall
The United States has a long history of first welcoming, then expelling refugees who sought escape from war, persecution, violence and privation abroad. This course will focus on one telling refugee group, our Cambodian allies during the Viet Nam War. Their American immigrant experience will explore the legal grounds for deportation, the processes of expulsion, and the human costs of double displacement and betrayal.
The deportation of legal permanent residents is not new, it has been happening for decades. Included among those sent back are refugees who sought shelter in the U.S. from war, persecution or violence. This talk will explore the legislation that allows for their deportation, telling the story largely through one group, Cambodian Americans who arrived after the Vietnam War. The trauma they endured, the role U.S. policy played in their displacement and what happened to them once they were resettled here, as well as how they fared after they were sent back, will all be discussed
Katya Cengel is a Cal Poly professor in Journalism and the author of four non-fiction books covering everything from minor league baseball in Bluegrass Baseball to life in a children’s psych ward in Straitjackets and Lunch Money. She has received an Eric Hoffer Academic Press award, two Independent Publisher Book Awards and a Foreword INDIES. Cengel’s magazine writing has taken her to Utah to search for Bigfoot (she didn’t find him) and to Mongolia to write about female street artists.
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