���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
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
Bomb Craters in Cambodia
Evacuation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 1975
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Khmer Rouge Cambodia, 1975-1979
Source: Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives
�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
��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
���Cambodian American Identities, Families, and Futures�
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