SOC218H1 Lecture Notes - French Language, Pan-Asianism, Pakistani Canadians
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Saigon is the capital city of south vietnam. Renamed it after war, became fuchimin city. Difficult trip, pirates, shortage of food, no modern technology to aid their direction. South vietnam fell to north vietnam troops. Us government had a little help with their escape immigration waves. Canada, due to humanitarian reasons accept vietnamese immigrants. Long process of acceptance, had to look through list of names in every refugee camp. But not all are directly from vietnam, some from other asia countries (refugee camps) as they have first fled to that country before canada. Most of immigrants are students (quebec), montreal, as they have affiliation with french language as vietnam was a colony of france previously. Entered canada in montreal, toronto, calgary, edmonton, vancouver. Professional, bureaucrat, military related, educated background, slightly wealthy, members of the catholic church. Terror and imprisonment, fearful that their properties will be taken away, personal safety is insecure.
