Duong, Minh
Description
An oral history with Mr. Minh Duong, born in 1967 in Quang Tri, Vietnam. He lived on a farm with his family until he escaped Vietnam in 1981. He discussed his difficult voyage from Vietnam to the refugee camp in Pulau Bidong, Malaysia. He then discussed how he was sponsored by his uncle to immigrate to America. After coming to Irvine, California, he worked a variety of jobs while also going to school. He worked at a carwash, as a newspaper boy, a factory overseer, and currently a real estate agent. He met his wife in 1991 and married her in 1993 and now lives with her and their three children in Mission Viejo, California.Recorded Digitally
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Duong, Cody
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UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian ArchiveRecord Harvested From
California Digital LibraryKeywords
- Accountant
- Acculturation
- Anticommunism
- Anticommunist
- Assimilation
- Boat People
- Buddhist
- Business
- Children
- Citizenship
- Civil Rights
- College Or University
- Communism
- Communist
- Community Service
- Da Nang (Vietnam)
- Death
- Detainee
- Detention Camp
- Diaspora
- Discrimination
- Dissident
- Education
- Elderly
- Emigration
- Employment
- English As A Second Language (Esl)
- Escape
- Ethnicity
- Factory Worker
- Family
- Family Reunification
- Farming
- Fountain Valley, California
- Freedom Of Speech
- Garden Grove, California
- Health
- High School
- Higher Education
- Ho Chi Minh
- Human Rights
- Humanitarian Operation
- Identity
- Immigrant
- Integration
- Intergenerational Gap
- International Student
- Irvine, California
- Land Refugee
- Language Barrier
- Little Saigon (Orange County, California)
- Marriage
- Media
- Mental Health
- Moon Festival
- Naturalization
- Navy (Vn)
- Newspaper Or Magazine
- Orange County, California
- Paris By Night
- Politics
- Poverty
- Prisoner
- Public Health
- Pulau Bidong Refugee Camp, Malaysia
- Quang Tri (Vietnam)
- Race Relations
- Racism
- Real Estate Agent Or Broker
- Reeducation
- Reeducation Camp
- Refugee Camp
- Refugee Camp (Malaysia)
- Religion
- Resettlement
- Saigon (Vietnam)
- Soldier
- Sponsors Or Sponsorship
- Sports
- Stereotypes
- Student
- Television
- Tradition Or Custom
- Unemployment
- Vietnam War
- Vietnam, Central
- Vietnam, Southern
- Westminster, California
- Youth