Selected WWW Resources Related to Southeast Asian Refugee/Immigrant/Diasporic Communities in the US

http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/sasian.html

Since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 over 1,200,000 refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam have arrived in the United States, with 40% settling in California. In order to document their experiences in a new culture the University of California, Irvine Library established the Southeast Asian Archive in 1987. The Archive collects materials relating to the resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants in the United States (and to a lesser extent, worldwide), the boat people and land refugees, and the culture and history of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Holdings are in English and in Southeast Asian languages (primarily Vietnamese), and include books, refugee orientation materials, government documents, reports and surveys, periodicals, journal articles, newspaper clippings, video and audio recordings, ephemera, personal and institutional papers. Particular attention is given to collecting theses and dissertations. An on-line gateway to the archives will be ready in late 2004.

http://www.searac.org/resourcectr.html

SEARAC is a national organization advancing the interests of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese-Americans through leadership development, capacity building, and community empowerment. SEARAC seeks to serve as a coalition-builder and leader, carry out action-oriented research projects, strengthen the capacity of community-based organizations, foster civic engagement among Southeast Asian Americans, and represent our communities at the national level in Washington, DC. As part of its mission, SEARAC

carries out research and analysis and distributes information on issues of particular concern and importance to Americans of Southeast Asian descent.

http://hmongstudies.learnabouthmong.org/

The Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center website is a source of comprehensive information about studies of Hmong history, culture, and adaptation in diasporic communities around the world. The site also includes detailed Hmong, Lao, Cambodian, and Vietnamese census data from the U.S. Census as well as bibliographies. This website has received a 5 star rating of "Essential" Scholarly Usefulness from the Asian Studies WWW Monitor website.

http://www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/vietnamese/index.html

Designed for use with learners in grades 7+, this downloadable, interdisciplinary curriculum guide explores the complexities of history and culture for Vietnamese Americans - and encourages users to bridge cultural gaps through awareness of shared experiences. The curriculum guide was funded by the Orange County Human Relations Council with online production enabled by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance and Tolerance.org.

http://www.iias.nl/wwwv1/southeas.html

This site keeps track of leading information facilities for the Southeast Asian section of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library.

http://www.naatanet.org/community/index.html

NAA T A's mission is to present stories that convey the richness and diversity of the Asian Pacific American experience to the broadest audience possible. It offers an excellent collection of Southeast Asian American Studies-related media resources for teachers.

http://equity4.clmer.csulb.edu/netshare/kclam/Apa/APA5/NAF2000/youth.htm

The- National-Association-for the-Education and -Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese Americans (NAPEA) is a network of Southeast Asian American K-12 educators/practitioners that offers an annual conference and many resources. Its WWW presence is currently very limited due to lack of resources. The above link highlights youth voices from the 2000 national conference.

Compiled by Dr- Peter Kiang, Director, Asian American Studies Program, University of Massachussetts, Boston. 07/04.