Suspicious Citizenship, Bureaucratic Coordination, and the Deportation of Cambodian American Refugees

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Zelnick
Keyword(s):  
Cambodian American

Hermeneutic analysis of virtuous exemplar narratives of Cambodian-American Buddhists and Christians

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaye V. Cook ◽  
Steven J. Sandage ◽  
Peter C. Hill ◽  
Brad D. Strawn
Keyword(s):  
Cambodian American

How You Understand Your Story

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Socheata Poeuv
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Cambodian American ◽  
Speaking Out ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Shame And Guilt ◽  
History Of

This chapter argues that Cambodian and Cambodian American survivors of genocide avoid telling and documenting their personal stories of trauma because the rendering of these stories complicates the community’s understanding of morality. This is in part because the circumstances of the Khmer Rouge genocide were such that no clear “other” enemy emerged—a genocide perpetrated by and on Cambodians. By speaking out and telling their stories through oral histories, films, books, etc., Cambodians can implicate themselves, evoking shame and guilt in addition to trauma. The author examines and compares the relative “silence” among Cambodians with regard to the history of the telling of survivor stories among Holocaust survivors in the United States and Europe.

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