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Vietnamese Refugee Librarian Vo Thi Van FreedThrough perseverance and the intervention of American librarians and Thai and other international agencies, Vietnamese refugee and librarian Vo Thi Van is now in the United States with the freedom she has struggled for since 1975. A graduate of the former National Institute of Administration in Saigon, a government agency whose graduates were targets of persecution and discrimination under the Vietnamese government beginning, Van graduated from the library school of the former Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1995, ALA Council adopted a resolution calling upon the United States to investigate her status as a refugee in the Sikhiu refugee camp in Thailand. With the imminent closing of refugee camps, Van voluntarily returned to Vietnam in 1996 to work for her freedom through the U.S. Orderly Departure and the Resettlement Opportunity for Vietnamese Returneees Programs. Van departed Vietnam November 3 and is now located in Virginia with her brother and his family, who are now American citizens. Posted November 16, 1998. |
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