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Quan, Roger
Roger Quan was born in the Cho Lon District (Chinatown) in Saigon, Vietnam. He worked as a machinist. He was granted asylum to the U.S. through the Orderly Departure Program in 1988 and eventually settled near San Jose, California.
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Tags: Buddhism, Business Owner, California, Cantonese, China, Chinese American, Chinese in Vietnam, Cho Lon (VN), Education or Schooling Issues, Embassy (USA), Family Sponsorship, Language, Mandarin, Orderly Departure Program 1980-1997, Philippines, Refugee Camp (Philippines), Refugees, Refugees (by air), Resettlement, San Jose CA (USA), Sponsors or Sponsorship, Thailand, Transnationalism, Vietnam War 1955-1975, Welfare
Nguyen, Hung Van (Peter)
Nguyen Van Hung (Peter) was born in 1958 and left Vietnam as a "boat person" in 1979. He first settled in Japan before going to Taiwan in 1988 as a missionary and then to Australia to attend seminary and to be ordained as a Catholic priest. He has…
Hsu, Madeline
Dr. Madeline Hsu served as the director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She details her research interests and her editorial work and speaks about the importance of Asian American studies as a field of…