Sensing the Enemy
Garden City, NY: The Dial Press/Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1984. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. [10], 176, [4] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Book associated postcard (5.75 inches by 9 inches) laid in, hand written and signed by Lady Borden to Matt Schaeffer of WBCN Radio in Boston. Author's account as a health administrator for the Malaysian island of Pulau Bidong that had become a temporary way station for Vietnamese boat people. Lady Borton was b. 1942. has been a teacher; has worked with the Overseas Refugee Program of American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Quang Ngai, Vietnam, assistant director, 1969-71; and is a freelance writer and photographer, 1972- present. She gained international renown as an American woman among the boat people of Vietnam. Her work, Sensing the Enemy, describes the plight of the Vietnamese "boat people" who faced disease, pirate attacks, unsanitary and crowded conditions, and other dangers to escape from Vietnam to Pulau Bi Dong, a tiny, previously uninhabited island in Malaysia. Vietnamese boat people, also known simply as boat people, were refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 (mainly were Hoa people). This migration was at its highest in 1978 and 1979, but continued through the early 1990s. The term is also often used generically to refer to all the Vietnamese (about 2 million) who left their country by any means between 1975 and 1995. From refugee camps in Southeast Asia, the great majority of boat people were resettled in developed countries, some in the United States and most of the remainder in Canada, Australia, France, West Germany, and the United Kingdom. One ship of refugees was rescued and resettled in Israel after neighboring Asian countries refused the refugees entry. Several tens of thousands were repatriated to Vietnam, either voluntarily or involuntarily. Condition: Good / Good.
Keywords: Vietnam War, Boat People, Refugees, Pulau Bidong, Pulau Bi Dong, Migration, Immigration, Resettlement, Humanitarian Assistance, Relief Worker, Health Care, Matt Schaeffer, WBCN
ISBN: 0385277547
[Book #77323]
Price: $60.00