Vietnamese Diaspora in Thailand

From: Anthony Le

Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:50 AM

Hello VSGers,

I wonder if someone in the group can introduce me to some available research on the Vietnamese presence in Thailand in the last three centuries, starting with Vietnamese Catholics fleeing persecution in Vietnam to settle in Thailand and subsequent waves of migration, such as the Viet Minh era and the post Vietnam War era.

I would appreciate any help. I can read Vietnamese and Thai, so I'd take sources in those languages as well.

Thanks in advance,

anthony

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From: Hue-Tam Ho Tai

Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:14 AM

Christopher Goscha, Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution (1999).

Hue-Tam Ho Tai

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From: Minh Tran

Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:18 AM

Anthony,

Three centuries would put us in the early 18th Century. Unless

there are details of Vietnamese expatriate communities in Siam's

numerous archipelagic regions, where many abscond the prolong conflict

of Trinh-Nguyen and later manifold onsets of each of the Tay Son

brothers, it may be possible to find some, if any. You can find in the

narrow escape of Nguyen Anh (Gia Long), that he fled the Tay Son's

navy and arrived to the shore of Siam (after sojourning at various

islands), and abetted by plebeians, pirates, and former soldiers or

sailors, who all presumably speak Vietnamese and Chinese. The detail

on their Vietnamese or Chinese ethnicity is vague.

I will have to look for some of its title in my collection.

Minh Huynh Tran

PhD Student

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From: Nicolas Lainez

Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM

Dear Anthony,

Thanyathip Sripana from the Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University (sthanyat@yahoo.com) used to work in Chau Doc, and it might be possible she's working on Vietnamease in Thailand. I believe she might

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From: Nicolas Lainez

Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:31 AM

Dear Anthony,

Thanyathip Sripana from the Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University used to work in Chau Doc, and I believe she is working on Vietnamese diasporas in Southeast Asia, and probably in Thailand. Her email is sthanyat@yahoo.com. She can also be contacted through the Institute from Chula. She mayby knows other researchers working in Thailand on Vietnamese.

Regards.

Nicolas Lainez

PhD Student, EHESS

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From: Allen J. Riedy

Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:49 AM

Try going to the Cornell University online catalog (https://catalog.library.cornell.edu)

In the "search for" box type (without quotes): "vietnamese and thailand"

In the "search by" box choose Command Keyword

This search will bring up over a hundred titles. Not all of them are relevant but a number of them are, including titles in Vietnamese and Thai. Cornell is pretty generous when it comes to interlibrary loan, so you should be able to borrow them via your home library if it doesn't have them.

--

Allen Riedy

Head of Asia Collection

University of Hawaii

Honolulu, HI 96822

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From: Gilles de Gantès.

Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM

Christopher Goscha, Pr in Montreal, has written and published on the topic of Vietnamese in Thailand : Contesting Concepts of Space (a working paper in Copenhagen) and Asian Networks. I do not have my documentation in hand, but you can find it easily on the net.

Thomas Engelbert has produced an article in a book edited by Pierre Brocheux (du conflit d'Indochine..., in French).

Frédéric Mantienne's PhD (published, Paris, Les Indes savantes) and Alain Forest's Thèse d'Etat (published, Paris, L'Harmattan, 3 vol.) both in French, may give you valuable insights and sources.

Gilles de Gantès.

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From: Larry Ashmun

Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:52 PM

Anthony - Though many of the most relevant works've already been cited (or can be found in Cornell's catalog), I'd specificially like to mention the following, including one by Thanyathip Sripana (all from Wisconsin's MadCat catalog):

1. Author: NgŻamphit SatsangŻuan.

Title: SathŻaban khrŻo·pkhrŻua khŻo·ng klum chŻatphan nai Krung

ThŻep MahŻa NakhŻo·n : karanŻisu´ksŻa khrŻo·pkhrŻua

YŻuan / NgŻamphit SatsangŻuan.

Publisher: Krung ThŻep : SŻun Nangsu´· hŻćng

ChulŻalongkŻo·nmahŻawitthayŻalai, 2545 [2002]

Description: 326 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Summary: Study on family institution of ethnic groups in Bangkok,

Thailand; case study on Vietnamese.

2. Author: SŻophanŻa SŻichampŻa.

Title: SŻarŻanukrom klum chŻattiphan nai PrathŻet Thai : WŻiatnŻam

/ [SŻophanŻa SŻichampŻa].

Publisher: NakhŻo·n Pathom : SathŻaban Wichai PhŻasŻa lć Watthanatham

phu´·a PhatthanŻa Chonnabot, MahŻawitthayŻalai Mahidon,

2548 [2005]

Description: 30 p. : col. ill., map ; 30 cm.

3. Author: WichŻan ChampŻisŻi

Title: YŻuan `oppayop kap khwŻammankhong khŻo·ng chŻat / WichŻan

ChampŻisŻi, Suthawit Suphan

Publisher: Krungthep : `OdŻian satŻo, 2519 [1976]

Description: [10] , 119 p. ; 26cm.

4. Author: Poole, Peter A.

Title: The Vietnamese in Thailand; a historical perspective [by]

Peter A. Poole.

Publisher: Ithaca [N.Y.] Cornell University Press [1970]

Description: ix, 180 p. illus., maps. 23 cm.

5. Author: ChŻan `AngsuchŻot.

Title: The Vietnamese refugees in Thailand: A case study in

decision making. [microform].

Publisher: 1960.

Description: [1 v.]

Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--Thammasat University, Institute of Public

Administration.

Includes bibliographical references.

Film copy. Positive.

6. Author: ChŻan `AngsuchŻot.

Title: The Vietnamese refugees in Thailand: A case study in

decision making. [microform].

Publisher: 1960.

Description: [1 v.]

Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--Thammasat University, Institute of Public

Administration.

Includes bibliographical references.

Film copy. Positive.

7. Author: PhutsadŻi Chanthawimon.

Title: WŻiatnŻam nai Mu´·ang Thai / PhutsadŻi Chanthawimon ;

bannŻathikŻan, ChŻanwit KasŻetsiri, KŻanchanŻi

La`Żo·ngsŻi = The Vietnamese in Thailand / Pussadee

Chandavimol ; editors, Charnvit Kasetsiri, Kanchanee

La-ongsri.

Publisher: Krung ThŻep : SamnakngŻan KŻo·ngthun Sanapsanun KŻanwichai,

2541 [1998]

Description: 59, 339 p., [3] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 21

cm.

8. Author: Poole, Peter A.

Title: The Vietnamese refugee communities in northeast Thailand

[microform]/ Peter A. Poole.

Publisher: [Bangkok, Thailand] : OSD/ARPA Field Unit, Military

Research and Development Center, 1966.

Description: 35 p. : maps ; 28 cm.

9. Author: ThanyŻathip SŻiphanŻa.

Title: WŻiat KŻieo nai PrathŻet Thai kap khwŻamsamphan

Thai-WŻiatnŻam = Viet Kieu in Thailand in

Thai-Vietnamese relationship / ThanyŻathip SŻiphanŻa,

Trinh Dieu Thin ; NŻuai PatibatkŻan Wichai MŻć KhŻong

Su´ksŻa, SathŻaban `ŻEchŻiasu´ksŻa,

ChulŻalongkŻo·nmahŻawitthayŻalai rŻuamkap SathŻaban

`ŻEchŻia Tawan`Żo·k ChŻiang Tai Su´ksŻa HŻanŻo·i dŻuai

kŻansanapsanun khŻo·ng MŻunnithi RŻo·kkŻifŻenloe·.

Edition: Phim khrang thŻi 1.

Publisher: [Bangkok] : NŻuai PatibatkŻan Wichai MŻć KhŻong Su´ksŻa,

SathŻaban `ŻEchŻiasu´ksŻa,

ChulŻalongkŻo·nmahŻawitthayŻalai, 2548 [2005]

Description: 56, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Larry Ashmun

U. of Wisconsin-Madison

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From: Montira Rato <Montira.R@chula.ac.th>

Date: 2009/9/19

To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>

These titles in Vietnamese may be useful.

Ch.u Long, “Vi..t Ki..u ta.i Tha.i Lan”. S.. .i.a, 1969

Nguy..n V.n Khoan (ed.). Ng...i Vi..t .. Tha.i Lan 1910 – 1960. Ho Chi Minh: NXB C.ng An Nh.n D.n, 2008.

Nguy..n C.ng Khanh, “Hoa.t ...ng cu.a ca.c nha. y.u n...c Vi..t Nam .. Xi.m (Tha.i Lan) ...u th.. ky. XX sau khi phong tra.o ..ng Du th..t ba.i”. Quan h.. v.n hoa., gia.o du.c Vi..t Nam – Nh..t Ba.n va. 100 n.m phong tra.o ..ng Du. Hanoi: NXN .a.i Ho.c Qu..c Gia Ha. N..i, 1996.

Nguy..n Thi. Loan, “Con ....ng xuy.n t.y ..a vu. khi. t.. Tha.i Lan v.. Nam B..”. Co. M..t Tr..n Tuy..n Th..m L..ng. Hanoi: NXB Chi.nh Tri. Qu..c Gia, 1995.

Montira

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Montira Rato, Ph.D.

Dept of Eastern Languages

Faculty of Arts

Chulalongkorn University

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From: Balazs Szalontai

Date: Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:04 PM

Dear Anthony,

I remember having seen a few Hungarian archival documents about how the North Vietnamese government sought to repatriate ethnic Vietnamese from Thailand and French-governed New Caledonia in the early 1960s and how the repatriates were treated afterwards. This repatriation campaign was remarkably similar to the post-1959 repatriation of ethnic Chinese and Koreans from Indonesia and Japan to the PRC and North Korea, respectively. If you are interested, I can look up the precise data for you after I return to Hungary in late December. BTW, I am also working on a long-term research project on post-1975 Thai-Vietnamese relations.

All the best,

Balazs Szalontai

Mongolia International University

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From: Anh Ly

Date: Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM

Nguyen, Truong and Resurrection on undocumented migrant workers in Bangkok

and the gendered practices of identity construction.

Anh

Anh Ly

Research Consultant

Aboriginal Health Program,

Alberta Health Service

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