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Scope/Content: Oral history of Hoang Dai Hai (first name Hai, surname Hoang), born in 1963 in Saigon, Vietnam. He is the eldest child in a family of 6 children. His father passed away in 1969 and his mother gave his 5 siblings up for international adoption through two programs called Friends of Children of Vietnam and Welcome Home. He helped his mother run pharmaceuticals on the black market and attempted to escape the country by boat at least ten times without success. In 1986 he went to Cambodia and made a living by selling medicine, doing acupuncture, and being a healer. He met his wife there and the two of them escaped Cambodia by boat. They arrived in a refugee camp in Thailand and then sent to the Philippines before resettlement in the United States. Once in America he went to dental school and practiced dentistry in the Seattle-Tacoma area before moving to Orange County, California where he lives at the time of interview with his wife and three sons, who were all born in the U.S. Scope/Content: Dr. Thuy Vo Dang is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Director for the Vietnamese American Oral History Project (VAOHP) in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine. She earned her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2008 and was a Fellow at the Institute of American Cultures/Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2009-2010 and a Visiting Scholar from 2010-2011. Her research and teaching specializations include comparative race and ethnic relations, immigration, ethnography, community studies, and oral history. For her doctoral dissertation on cultural politics and memory, she conducted oral history interviews with first generation Vietnamese Americans in San Diego. She has also collaborated on a Pacific Rim Foundation-funded project, interviewing over 70 Vietnamese Americans in the southern California area. Her academic research has been published in Amerasia Journal, the anthology Le Viet Nam Au Feminin, and Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Dr. Vo Dang currently facilitates and co-hosts a weekly Vietnamese-language radio show called Oral history; stories between the generations on VNCR (FM 106.3). Scope/Content: Hoang Dai Hai, Photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2013
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2 mp3 audio tracks; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 10 jpg image files
Acculturation | Boat People | Children | Dentist | Education | Employment | Escape | Family reunification | High school | Land refugee | Marriage | Prisoner | Refugee camp (Philippines) | Refugee camp (Thailand) | Resettlement | Student | Traditional medicine | Orange County, California
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