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���Cambodian American Identities, Families, and Futures

Vichet Chhuon

June 24, 2025

University of Minnesota

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Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Angkor Wat

Siem Reap, Cambodia

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Khmer Rouge Cambodia, 1975-1979

Source: Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives

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Bombing Raids over Cambodia

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“We dropped more than 500,000 tons of bombs on the Cambodian countryside. Nearly half of this tonnage fell in 1973…. In those few months, we may have driven thousands of people out of their minds. We certainly accelerated the course of the revolution.” �� -Chomsky & Herman, 2014

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“Cambodia may be the most heavily bombed country in history.”

- Owen & Kiernan, 2006

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Bomb Craters in Cambodia

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Evacuation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 1975

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Khmer Rouge Cambodia, 1975-1979

Source: Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives

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�Khao I Dang Refugee Camp�Thailand, 1980

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cc: designsbykari - https://www.flickr.com/photos/43726999@N06

Cambodians, Deportation, & Immigration (in)Justice

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�Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act��-April 24, 1996���Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act��-September 30, 1996����

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President Bill Clinton 1992-2000

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1996

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Washington DC, November 2016, SEARAC Staff with Minnesota family members

Flyer from organizing event, October 2016

Chhuon, V., Nin, C., & Srey, J. (2025). Organizing inside and Out: The ReleaseMN8 Campaign, in Asian American Rising, New York University Press.

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“What happens when we refuse what all the (presumably) ‘sensible’ people perceive as good things? What does this refusal do to politics, to sense, to reason?”

-Audra Simpson, 2014

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Dr. Bhaskar Upadhyay on Lesson Planning

Group Presentations on classroom assessment

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KVAO-CEHD, 2023

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