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Scope and Content of Collection
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Brigitte Marshall files on Southeast Asian refugees
Identifier/Call Number: MS.SEA.013
Physical Description:
2 Linear Feet
(2 boxes; 9 audiocassettes) and 38 digitized images
Date (inclusive): 1981-1995
Abstract: This collection consists of printed
materials, audio and videocassettes, and photographs taken by Brigitte Marshall, who worked
as a volunteer in refugee camps in Thailand and as an English-language teacher in
California. All materials relate to Southeast Asian refugees, principally Hmong, living in
camps in Thailand, and adjusting to life in the United States. Photographs, articles, and
reports document Hmong, refugees in camps in Thailand, as well as their resettlement in
California, particularly the Fresno area. Printed materials include Hmong and Lao language
lessons, memos, correspondence, reports, newsletters, newspaper and magazine articles,
refugee orientation materials, publications, and unpublished papers.
Physical Location: University of California, Irvine.
Library. Special Collections and Archives. Irvine, California 92623-9557
Language of Material:
English .
Access
Collection 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
Brigitte Marshall files on Southeast Asian refugees. MS-SEA013. Southeast Asian Archive,
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 Brigitte Marshall, 1999.
Processing Information
Processed by Karen Rosen, 2002. Processing was supported by a Library Services and
Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the California State Library.
Biography
Brigitte Marshall currently works as a consultant in the Adult Education Unit of the
California Department of Education. She is the author of the book,
Preparing for
Success: A Guide for Teaching Adult English Language Learners
(2002), a resource
text designed for teachers of adult English language students. Marshall received a joint BA
and MA degree in Social Sciences from the University of Oxford, England. Marshall worked as
a volunteer in the Phanat Nikhom Refugee Processing Center in Thailand from 1989-1990. Her
concern for refugees began after encountering Afghan Refugees in Pakistan in 1987. Marshall
worked as a Program Specialist for the Fresno County Office of Education after returning
from Thailand, and as a refugee youth coordinator at Fresno City College. She then joined
the Refugee Programs Bureau as a Community Specialist in 1996. Marshall has been active in
many refugee assistance organizations and was the Chair of the California Refugee English
Language Training Task Force.
While teaching English in refugee camps in Thailand, Marshall documented the experience of
living in the refugee camps by photographing Hmong refugees as they struggled to maintain
family culture while living in the camps. Marshall used these photos to orient service
providers in the United States to the realities of refugee camp life.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of printed materials, audio and videocassettes, and photographs
taken by Brigitte Marshall, who worked as a volunteer in refugee camps in Thailand and as an
English-language teacher in California. All materials relate to Southeast Asian refugees,
principally Hmong, living in camps in Thailand, and adjusting to life in the United States.
Photographs, articles, and reports document Hmong, refugees in camps in Thailand, as well as
their resettlement in California, particularly the Fresno area. Printed materials include
Hmong and Lao language lessons, memos, correspondence, reports, newsletters, newspaper and
magazine articles, refugee orientation materials, publications, and unpublished papers.
Among the highlights of the printed materials are a field report on how the Hmong fared
after resettlement in the Fresno area; several issues of the
Phanat
Nikhom Press
, including articles written by camp residents about themselves and
their expectations of life in the United States; and refugee assistance materials issued by
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and non-governmental organizations.
Marshall's varied experience provides a continuum between the camp and resettlement
experiences of the Southeast Asian refugees.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically by topic. Materials are arranged chronologically
within each topical grouping.
Related Material
This collection is supplemented by materials in the SEA Archive's newspaper clippings
vertical file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sūn Phanat Nikhom (Ban Tha Bun Mi, Thailand) -- Archives
Chiang Kham (Phayao, Thailand : Refugee camp) -- Archives
Southeast Asians -- California -- Archives.
English language -- Study and teaching
Sūn Bān Winai (Ban Winai, Thailand)
Video recordings
Photographic prints
Sound recordings.
Refugees -- California -- Archives
Refugee camps -- Thailand -- History -- Sources
Hmong (Asian people) -- Archives
Online Archive of California