Guide to the James Freeman collection on Southeast Asian refugees MS.SEA.033
Processed by Julia Stringfellow; machine-readable finding aid created by Audrey Pearson; updated by Julia Huynh in 2019.
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
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University of California, Irvine
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: James Freeman collection on Southeast Asian refugees
Creator:
Freeman, James M.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.SEA.033
Physical Description:
3.6 Linear Feet
(7 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1978-2003
Abstract: This collection is comprised of materials collected by James Freeman, a professor of anthropology at San Jose State University.
Correspondence and reports of organizations and individuals involved in refugee issues and reports from refugee camps are
included, as are handwritten notes and cassette tapes of interviews with Vietnamese Americans who settled in the United States
after the Vietnam War that were conducted for Freeman's book
Hearts of sorrow: Vietnamese-American lives. The collection also contains slide images of Vietnamese refugees and children at refugee camps in the Philippines, Malaysia,
Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand as well as images from detention centers in Hong Kong.
Language of Material:
English
.
Access
Interview tapes and transcripts are restricted until 2039-01-01. Restrictions are noted at the file level. The remainder of
the collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Southeast Asian Archive Librarian.
Preferred Citation
James Freeman files. MS-SEA033. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Acquisition Information
Gift of James Freeman, 2004 and 2019.
Processing History
Processed by Julia Stringfellow, 2005. Processing was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. Additions
and finding aid updates made by Julia Huynh, 2019.
Historical Background
James M. Freeman is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. He received a
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Northwestern University in 1958, a Master of Arts in Social Relations from Harvard University
in 1964, and a PhD in Social Relations from Harvard University in 1968. His area of research since 1992 has included work,
identity, and community in high-tech regions, involving in depth interviews in high-tech companies on the connections between
work, family, and cultural identity. He has also collected the life stories of people living in India, of Vietnamese refugees,
and of the people in the Silicon Valley Cultures Project over the past 25 years. Freeman hoped to capture the spirit of these
people through their narratives and to convey this to a wide reading public, such as through the publication of his book
Hearts of sorrow: Vietnamese-American lives in 1989.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection is comprised of materials collected by James Freeman, a professor of anthropology at San Jose State University.
Correspondence and reports of organizations and individuals involved in refugee issues and reports from refugee camps are
included, as are handwritten notes and cassette tapes of interviews with Vietnamese Americans who settled in the United States
after the Vietnam War that were conducted for Freeman's book
Hearts of sorrow: Vietnamese-American lives. The collection also contains slide images of Vietnamese refugees and children at refugee camps in the Philippines, Malaysia,
Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand as well as images from detention centers in Hong Kong.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 3 series.
Series 1. Topical files, 1978-2003. 1.4 linear feet
Series 2. Interview notes and audio cassette recordings, 1983-1999. 1.8 linear feet
Series 3. Slides of refugee camps and detention centers, circa 1990s, 0.4 linear feet
Original order of slides in series 3 are retained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Interviews -- 20th century.
Refugees -- United States -- Archives.
Audiocassettes -- 20th century.
Letters -- 20th century.
Refugees -- Vietnam -- Archives
Reports -- 20th century.
Vietnamese Americans -- Archives
Refugees -- Services for -- United States -- Archives.
Vietnamese Americans -- Interviews.
Slides -- 20th century.
Refugee camps -- Southeast Asia -- Photographs.
Freeman, James M. -- Archives
Topical files Series 1.
1978-2003
Physical Description: 1.4 Linear Feet
General Physical Description note: no content
Scope and Contents note
This series is comprised of items regarding Southeast Asian refugee issues. Materials include reports from refugee camps,
organizational reports and correspondence, and publications of individuals.
Arrangement note
The series is arranged topically.
Aid to Refugee Children Without Parents, correspondence and organizational materials
1982-1999
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 1, folder 3
Cards and invitations
1997
box 1, folder 4
Catholic Office for Emergency Relief and Refugees publications
1991-1994
box 1, folder 5
Committee for Coordination of Services to Displaced Persons in Thailand (CSDPT), Handbook, Refugee Services in Thailand
1982
box 1, folder 6
Congressional Research Service (CRS) brief, "Refugee Admissions and Resettlement Policy"
1993
box 1, folder 7
Dong Rek articles, sources for articles, correspondence and notes
1988-1994
box 1, folder 8-9
Freeman, James, and Nguyen, Huu Dinh, publications
1985-1998
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 1, folder 10
Friends of Hue Foundation, newsletters and organizational materials
2000-2003
box 1, folder 11
Hong Kong refugee camps, correspondence and reports
1989-1996
box 1, folder 12
Indonesia refugee camps, reports and correspondence
1991-1993
box 1, folder 13
International Conference on Indo-Chinese Refugees materials
1991-1997
box 1, folder 14
International Forum on the Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA), program materials
1989-1992
box 1, folder 15
International Social Service Hong Kong Branch, reports and newsletters
1992-1997
box 1, folder 16
Laos and Thailand refugee camps, reports
1989-1999
box 1, folder 17
Malaysia refugee camps, correspondence and reports
1991-1999
box 1, folder 18-20
Newspaper clippings
1982-2000
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 1, folder 21
Hieu, Nguyen, correspondence
1982-1984
box 1, folder 22
Non-governmental organizations (NGO), correspondence and organizational materials
1991-1999
box 1, folder 23
Nordic Assistance to Repatriated Vietnamese (NARV), correspondence and organizational materials
1991-1994
box 1, folder 24-25
Palawan, Philippines, refugee camps, correspondence and reports
1991-1999
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 1, folder 26-27
Refugee Concern Hong Kong, correspondence and reports
1991-1996
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 2, folder 1
Strauch, Judith, "The Chinese Exodus from Vietnam: Implications for the Southeast Asian Chinese"
1980
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
box 2, folder 2
Convention on the Rights of the Child materials
1989-1993
box 2, folder 3-4
Reports and program materials
1985-1995
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 2, folder 5
United States State Department materials
1991
box 2, folder 6
Vietnamese refugees, reports and publications
1978-2000
box 2, folder 7
Vietnamese refugees living in Japan, reports
1990
box 2, folder 8
Vietnamese refugees living in the United States, reports
1978-1993
box 2, folder 9
Zulfacar, Diane, "Surviving Without Parents: Indo-Chinese Refugee Minors in New South Wales (NSW)"
1984
Interview notes and audio cassette recordings Series 2.
1983-1999
Physical Description: 1.6 Linear Feet
General Physical Description note: Four letter size document boxes (Boxes 3-6)
Scope and Contents note
This series is comprised of handwritten interview notes and interview transcripts from interviews James Freeman conducted
with Vietnamese refugees for his book,
Hearts of sorrow : Vietnamese-American lives. Audio cassette tapes are also included that contain the interviews.
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to this entire series, which contains information concerning the personal situation of Vietnamese refugees in the refugee
camps, is restricted until 2039-01-01.
Slides of refugee camps and detention centers Series 3
circa 1990s
Physical Description: 0.4 Linear Feet(1 letter document box)
Scope and Contents
This addition to the collection contains slide images of Vietnamese refugees and children at refugee camps in the Philippines,
Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand as well as images from detention centers in Hong Kong. Also included are 2 USB
sticks of digitzed slides, 1 article copy of "Terror At Dong Rek" by James M. Freeman and Nguyen Dinh Huu and 1 January 2005
publication of Nha magazine.
Access
This addition to the collection has been processed and is open for research.
box 7, Folder 1-2
Digitized slides on USB sticks
1991-92
box 7, Folder 3
"Terror at Dong Rek" article copy
1995
box 7, Folder 5
Teaching slides
circa 1990s
Physical Description: Contains 80 Kodachrome 35mm slides.
box 7, Folder 6-9
Slides of refugee camps / detention centers
circa 1990s
Physical Description: 4 folders containing 768 Kodachrome 35mm slides and 1 8x10 color photographic print.