Event

"Refugee Resettlement and Southeast Asian Advocacy" in conversation with Naroen Chhin Community Organizer, Member of Governor Tom Wolf’s Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs and former Board, Member of 1Love Movement anti-deportation network, chair on the board of the Philadelphia Northwest Neighborhood Advisory Committee.

Following the American intervention in Vietnam War and subsequent withdrawal of troops in 1975 a refugee crisis emerged on a scale that had not been seen since the second world war. The lecture will focus on the various activist organizations that emerged from this era, as well as the ongoing struggle to combat the deportation of this class of migrants. Guest speaker Naroen Chhin, Member of Governor Tom Wolf’s Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs and former Board Member of 1Love Movement anti-deportation network will also give personal anecdotes about his advocacy work in the Cambodian American and extended Southeast Asian American communities.

Hosted by ASAM lecturer Rob Busher in his course Asian American Activism.