From Both Sides of the Fence: Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong 1975 – 2000

After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975, Hong Kong was confronted with the Vietnamese Crisis which lasted 25 years. It involved the arrivals by boat of 213,000 Vietnamese refugees, riots in the detention centres and complex repatriation schemes. Using grounded theory, interviews and a creative web...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoang, Carina Oanh
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70556
_version_ 1848762280357920768
author Hoang, Carina Oanh
author_facet Hoang, Carina Oanh
author_sort Hoang, Carina Oanh
building Curtin Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
description After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975, Hong Kong was confronted with the Vietnamese Crisis which lasted 25 years. It involved the arrivals by boat of 213,000 Vietnamese refugees, riots in the detention centres and complex repatriation schemes. Using grounded theory, interviews and a creative website, the thesis documents and provides a historical account of what took place in Hong Kong from the perspective of the refugees and those who handled the crisis.
first_indexed 2025-11-14T10:45:03Z
format Thesis
id curtin-20.500.11937-70556
institution Curtin University Malaysia
institution_category Local University
last_indexed 2025-11-14T10:45:03Z
publishDate 2018
publisher Curtin University
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling curtin-20.500.11937-705562018-11-07T03:44:01Z From Both Sides of the Fence: Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong 1975 – 2000 Hoang, Carina Oanh After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975, Hong Kong was confronted with the Vietnamese Crisis which lasted 25 years. It involved the arrivals by boat of 213,000 Vietnamese refugees, riots in the detention centres and complex repatriation schemes. Using grounded theory, interviews and a creative website, the thesis documents and provides a historical account of what took place in Hong Kong from the perspective of the refugees and those who handled the crisis. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70556 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Hoang, Carina Oanh
From Both Sides of the Fence: Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong 1975 – 2000
title From Both Sides of the Fence: Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong 1975 – 2000
title_full From Both Sides of the Fence: Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong 1975 – 2000
title_fullStr From Both Sides of the Fence: Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong 1975 – 2000
title_full_unstemmed From Both Sides of the Fence: Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong 1975 – 2000
title_short From Both Sides of the Fence: Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong 1975 – 2000
title_sort from both sides of the fence: vietnamese boat people in hong kong 1975 – 2000
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70556