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portada Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980 (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)
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Publisher
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Language
English
Pages
612
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780773548817

Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980 (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

Michael Molloy; Kurt Jensen; Peter Duschinsky; Robert Shalka; Michael J. Molloy; Kurt F. Jensen; Robert J. Shalka (Author) · Mcgill Queens Univ Pr % Univ T · Paperback

Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980 (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History) - Michael Molloy; Kurt Jensen; Peter Duschinsky; Robert Shalka; Michael J. Molloy; Kurt F. Jensen; Robert J. Shalka

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Synopsis "Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980 (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)"

The fall of Saigon in April 1975 resulted in the largest and most ambitious refugee resettlement effort in Canada's history. Running on Empty presents the challenges and successes of this bold refugee resettlement program. It traces the actions of a few dozen men and women who travelled to seventy remote refugee camps, worked long days in humid conditions, subsisted on dried noodles and green tea, and sometimes slept on their worktables while rats scurried around them - all in order to resettle thousands of people displaced by war and oppression. After initially accepting 7,000 refugees from camps in Guam, Hong Kong, and military bases in the US in 1975, Canada passed the 1976 Immigration Act to establish new refugee procedures and introduce private refugee sponsorship. In July of 1979, the federal government under Prime Minister Joe Clark announced that Canada would accept an unprecedented 50,000 refugees - later increased to 60,000 - more than half of whom would be sponsored by ordinary Canadians. Running on Empty presents gripping first-hand accounts of the government officials tasked with selecting refugees from eight different countries, receiving and matching them with sponsors, and helping churches, civic organizations, and groups of neighbours to receive and integrate the newcomers in cities, towns, and rural communities across Canada. Timely and inspiring, Running on Empty offers essential lessons for governments, organizations, and individuals trying to come to grips with refugee crises in the twenty-first century.

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