Initial Collection of Facts and Documents

[Bao Thien Ngo]

I have begun the initial work of collecting documents/articles issued
by governmental bodies, community-based organizations, and activists.
The naming format is <date> <author> <title>.
http://groups.google.com/group/vietnamese-deportation/files

The major areas of the issue have been distilled into an outline:
http://groups.google.com/group/vietnamese-deportation/web/issue-outline

We are collecting names of individuals, organizations, and
governmental agencies into a Stakeholders directory to facilitate
communication among all groups.
http://groups.google.com/group/vietnamese-deportation/web/Stakeholders

[Bao Thien Ngo]

I've just uploaded multiple articles from AP, Mercury News, and NY
Times covering the MOU repatriation agreement.
http://groups.google.com/group/vietnamese-deportation/files

I've also added a new section to the Issue Outline page called
Resource Pages. Here I will collect websites and webpages devoted to
the study of the various areas of this issue, including immigration
law and the immigrant community (emphasis on Vietnamese), criminal law
and statistics (emphasis on Vietnamese), the deportation process,
human rights reports and watchdog groups (as it pertains to Vietnam
and the deportation process itself). The group in Seattle is
suggesting another area which encompasses unfair US-Vietnam relations,
but until they produce sufficient research materials that tie the MOU
to that topic, I will not include that area into my search yet.
http://groups.google.com/group/vietnamese-deportation/web/issue-outline

On Mar 13, 5:00 pm, Bao Thien Ngo <bao.thien....@norcaluvsa.org>
wrote:

> I have begun the initial work of collecting documents/articles issued
> by governmental bodies, community-based organizations, and activists.

> The naming format is <date> <author> <title>.http://groups.google.com/group/vietnamese-deportation/files

[Natalie Newton]

Hello all,

My name is Natalie Newton (my parents changed their name from Nguyen when they came over). I'm the person Bao is referring to below from Seattle, tying the MOU to international relations between the two countries. New American Media will publish an article on this soon that I had co-written with Angie Junck, a deportation attorney from the Immigrants Rights Legal Center in California. I will post it to the google group when it comes out in a week or so.

 

I will post some more information to this google group soon that is not in the article that outlines the years of concessions and international agreements made between the two countries after the war. The MOU has been in negotiation for over 10 years, as stated in the Dept of Homeland Security's press release.  

 

I am basing my analysis on some of the research I did as a grad student at UC Irvine, doing a thesis project on Vietnamese transnational relationships and lesbians in Hanoi/Saigon.

 

Natalie