The United States, China and Southeast Asian security: a changing of the guard?

In almost all of the countries in the world which offer permanent resettlement to refugees, resettlement is accomplished through some combination of the efforts of government and voluntary agencies. This article identifies the elements of resettlement, and the various distributions of responsibility for its accomplishment. By focusing on the Southeast Asian refugee movement to the United States, current and evolving relationships among government and voluntary agencies are illustrated.

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Institutional Ecosystems of Housing Support in Chinese, Southeast Asian, and African Philadelphia

Journal of Planning Education and Research ◽

10.1177/0739456x16651928 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 195-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Domenic Vitiello ◽

Arthur Acolin

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Civil Society ◽

Support Systems ◽

Housing Markets ◽

The United States ◽

Southeast Asian ◽

Civil Society Organizations ◽

Systems Planning ◽

Support Strategies ◽

History Of

How has the diversity of post-1965 immigration to the United States influenced newcomers’ housing experiences and civil society’s housing support systems? Planning scholars have shown immigration’s role in revitalizing cities and housing markets, but we have done less to parse the variety of housing problems that immigrants experience and the ways civil society addresses them. This article examines the recent history of civil society organizations’ housing support strategies in Chinese, Southeast Asian, and African communities in Philadelphia. We find that the diversity within and between groups has shaped largely distinct “institutional ecosystems” and approaches to housing support.

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Southeast Asian Defense Treaty

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300007712 ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 611-613

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Kingdom ◽

New Zealand ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

The United States ◽

The Philippines ◽

Southeast Asian ◽

Southwest Pacific ◽

The Pacific ◽

Collective Defense

On September 8, 1954, representatives of the United States, United Kingdom, France, the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand signed the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, a protocol designating the areas to which the treaty was to apply, and the Pacific Charter, a declaration setting forth the aims of the eight countries in southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific. Negotiations leading up to the actual signature of the treaty had been underway throughout the summer of 1954 and had culminated in an eight-power conference in Manila which opened on September 6.

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Southeast Asian Refugees in North America

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.598 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Carl L. Bankston

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

North America ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Rapid Growth ◽

Khmer Rouge ◽

The United States ◽

Southeast Asian ◽

Theravada Buddhism ◽

Southeast Asian Refugees ◽

American Society

Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia have historically been nations with large Buddhist populations. While Mahāyāna Buddhism predominates in Vietnam, most people in Cambodia and Laos have been dedicated to Theravāda Buddhism. In 1975, these three countries came under the domination of Communist governments, which had earlier been in conflict with factions militarily supported by the United States. This led to the beginnings of the massive movement of refugees from Southeast Asia to North America. An especially radical regime had taken power in Cambodia, and after war broke out between Cambodia and Vietnam the flow of refugees became a flood. All of the new governments of these countries were hostile to independent religious organizations and practices. The Khmer Rouge in power in Cambodia took its antagonism to religion to an extreme, attempting to violently eradicate traditional Buddhist practices and institutions. As refugees settled in ever-greater numbers in North America and other locations, they established Buddhist temples and other organizations in the new homelands. In consequence, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao communities in the United States and Canada have also become sites for the rapid growth of North American Buddhism. Southeast Asian Buddhism has become a part of a pluralistic religious environment, adding new rites, celebrations, and cultural activities to American society. Buddhism has also played a central part in maintaining ethnic identity among refugee populations and their descendants, as well as in helping Buddhists adapt to life under changing circumstances.

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Southeast Asian Americans

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.38 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Chia Youyee Vang

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Asian Americans ◽

Asian American ◽

The United States ◽

The Philippines ◽

Southeast Asian ◽

Southeast Asian Americans ◽

Socialist Republic ◽

Brunei Darussalam

In geopolitical terms, the Asian sub-region Southeast Asia consists of ten countries that are organized under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Current member nations include Brunei Darussalam, Kingdom of Cambodia, Republic of Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos), Malaysia, Republic of the Union of Myanmar (formerly Burma), Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Kingdom of Thailand, and Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The term Southeast Asian Americans has been shaped largely by the flow of refugees from the American War in Vietnam’ however, Americans with origins in Southeast Asia have much more diverse migration and settlement experiences that are intricately tied to the complex histories of colonialism, imperialism, and war from the late 19th through the end of the 20th century. A commonality across Southeast Asian American groups today is that their immigration history resulted primarily from the political and military involvement of the United States in the region, aimed at building the United States as a global power. From Filipinos during the Spanish-American War in 1898 to Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, and Hmong refugees from the American War in Vietnam, military interventions generated migration flows that, once begun, became difficult to stop. Complicating this history is its role in supporting the international humanitarian apparatus by creating the possibility for displaced people to seek refuge in the United States. Additionally, the relationships between the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore are different from those of other SEA countries involved in the Vietnam War. Consequently, today’s Southeast Asian Americans are heterogeneous with varying levels of acculturation to U.S. society.

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