Karen Akoka

• Paris Nanterre University

In this chapter Akoka analyses France’s involvement in the resettlement of 130,000 people from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam during the 1980s, a move that placed France as the leading reception country in Europe, and the second in the world behind the USA. Once in France arrivees enjoyed significant rights and exceptional assistance at both the nation...

This book traces the reception and resettlement of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Israel during the 'boat people' crisis of 1975–79. These years saw hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the emergence of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and political instability across south-e...

Cet article s’inscrit dans la lignée de travaux de recherche s’intéressant à « l’observation historique du travail administratif ». L’un de leurs postulats est que la méthode ethnographique mérite d’être articulée à la recherche historique puisqu’elle permet de reconstituer des pratiques qui échappent parfois à l’observateur des processus actuels f...

Refugees or migrants? The political stakes of a juridical distinction The refugee definitions that have followed one another over time are often presented as necessities, solutions developed to address the objective problems of the groups and individuals targeted by these definitions. From an analysis of the historical transformations of the catego...