Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Guide to the Robert Walsh Files on Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement and Education
MS.SEA.021
MS.SEA.021
No online items
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Title: Robert Walsh files on Southeast Asian refugee resettlement and education
Identifier/Call Number: MS.SEA.021
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
4.2 Linear feet
(5 boxes and 4 oversize folders) and 9 digitized images
Date (inclusive): 1975-2002
Abstract: This collection comprises materials accumulated during Walsh's involvement with the Overseas Refugee Program for Southeast
Asian refugees in the Philippines and Thailand, and also materials that he collected regarding the education and resettlement
of Southeast Asians in the United States. The collection consists of video cassettes; conference schedules; curricula, resource
catalogs, reference books, and workbooks for ESL education programs; newspaper clippings; reports and studies; and serial
publications. Cultural orientation materials-- such as handbooks, guides, and manuals-- for refugees and their sponsors and
service providers are also included. Items in this collection are predominately written in English, though a few items are
written in Southeast Asian languages.
Physical location: University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives. Irvine, California 92623-9557.
Creator:
Walsh, Robert E., 1948-
Collection open for research.
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 Head of Special Collections and University Archives.
Robert Walsh files on Southeast Asian refugee resettlement and education. MS-SEA021. Special Collections and Archives, The
UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Gift of Robert Walsh, 2002.
Robert Walsh formerly was curriculum director for the Philippine Refugee Processing Center, which was part of the Overseas
Refugee Program, and later continued in the education field in the San Diego area.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection comprises materials accumulated during Walsh's involvement with the Overseas Refugee Program for Southeast
Asian refugees in the Philippines and Thailand, and also materials that he collected regarding the education and resettlement
of Southeast Asians in the United States. The collection consists of video cassettes; conference schedules; curricula, resource
catalogs, reference books, and workbooks for ESL education programs; newspaper clippings; reports and studies; and serial
publications. Cultural orientation materials-- such as handbooks, guides, and manuals-- for refugees and their sponsors and
service providers are also included. Items in this collection are predominately written in English, though a few items are
written in Southeast Asian languages.
The collection is arranged primarily by form of material, and then alphabetically by topic or title. Newspaper clippings are
arranged chronologically.
This collection is also supplemented by materials in the SEA Archive's newspaper clippings file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Online Archive of California.
Overseas Refugee Program -- Archives..
Overseas Refugee Program..
Philippine Refugee Processing Center -- Archives..
Philippine Refugee Processing Center..
Walsh, Robert E., 1948- -- Archives.
Asia, Southeastern -- Emigration and immigration.
Clippings -- 20th century.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Manuals (Handbooks) -- 20th century.
Refugees -- Education -- Southeast Asia -- Archives.
Refugees -- Southeast Asia -- Archives.
Refugees -- United States -- Archives.
Southeast Asian Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Archives.
Southeast Asian Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Sources
Video recordings -- 20th century.