Anyone know the email address of the Vietnamese Refugee Association in the USA?
They must have a listing of all the refugees who settled in the US. I am trying to locate a Vietnamese friend
It would be a pretty long list, compiled over 20 years. People do tend to move around a lot here in the US on top of everything else. And, which organization you would contact is more complicated than you would imagine.
Some 500,000 Vietnamese came out immediately after the collapse of South Vietnam. Most went through Guam, were sent on to several resettlement camps in places like Arkansas and Florida, and then scattered across the US. Then in later years, Vietnamese fled by boat from Hong Kong to Indonesia which set up refugee camps for 10 or 15 years. The US eventually set up refugee resettlement processing in Ho Chi Minh City, although it was headquartered in Bangkok until the mid-90's under the title, the Orderly Departure Program. ODP was run by the International Catholic Migration Commision headquartered in Switzerland. At the high point of refugee processing, over 10,000 people were being interviewed each month in Ho Chi Minh/Saigon.
The refugees were sent onward to the US and resettled under a wide group of US refugee organizations, like Lutheran Services and Catholic World Services, among others. So, finding one person will be very complicated indeed. You could try the various refugee groups like the Lutherans and Catholics. ICMC has an email address in Switzerland, icmc@icmc.net. But, the chances of getting someone to answer and come up with a current address will be very hard. Depending on where you live, there may be Vietnamese groups that might help. Orange County, CA has probably the largest concentration of Vietnamese here in the US. DC has a sizeable community as well. Or, you could always Google your person or use one of the commercial people search programs on line, at a price. But good luck to you in any case.
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It looks like there are a bunch of them, depending on which state you want.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?search=Vietnamese+Refugee+Association+&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&ico-yahoo-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAnfmHzIZa4CUCVH0NOAZXMsazKIX%3B_ylv%3D0%2FSIG%3D11i4uurle%2FEXP%3D1192808331%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&ico-wikipedia-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAiBlQE1PSjWyVBZvsyBLCp8azKIX%3B_ylv%3D0%2FSIG%3D121skn0v2%2FEXP%3D1192808331%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%253aSearch&p=Vietnamese+Refugee+Association+
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Comment by DAR — December 31, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
It would be a pretty long list, compiled over 20 years. People do tend to move around a lot here in the US on top of everything else. And, which organization you would contact is more complicated than you would imagine.
Some 500,000 Vietnamese came out immediately after the collapse of South Vietnam. Most went through Guam, were sent on to several resettlement camps in places like Arkansas and Florida, and then scattered across the US. Then in later years, Vietnamese fled by boat from Hong Kong to Indonesia which set up refugee camps for 10 or 15 years. The US eventually set up refugee resettlement processing in Ho Chi Minh City, although it was headquartered in Bangkok until the mid-90's under the title, the Orderly Departure Program. ODP was run by the International Catholic Migration Commision headquartered in Switzerland. At the high point of refugee processing, over 10,000 people were being interviewed each month in Ho Chi Minh/Saigon.
The refugees were sent onward to the US and resettled under a wide group of US refugee organizations, like Lutheran Services and Catholic World Services, among others. So, finding one person will be very complicated indeed. You could try the various refugee groups like the Lutherans and Catholics. ICMC has an email address in Switzerland, icmc@icmc.net. But, the chances of getting someone to answer and come up with a current address will be very hard. Depending on where you live, there may be Vietnamese groups that might help. Orange County, CA has probably the largest concentration of Vietnamese here in the US. DC has a sizeable community as well. Or, you could always Google your person or use one of the commercial people search programs on line, at a price. But good luck to you in any case.
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Comment by George L — December 31, 2008 @ 3:19 pm