Vietnamese Diaspora

Vietnamese Diaspora Vietnamese refugees who escaped by sea and land to camps throughout Southeast Asia, then came to California to begin new lives, wrote with their suffering a saga of world history that should not be forgotten. Theirs is a story of defeat, escape, and renewal. Based on anonymous interviews by the Director of a large program for Vietnamese refugees in Orange County, California, in the early 1980s, Vietnamese Diaspora is a compilation of fear and hope that is the by-product of war. The interviewees speak for themselves.

Paul Majkut, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, now lives in San Diego, California. He has also lived for long periods in Canada, Mexico, the People's Republic of China, and the Middle East. While on National Endowment for the Humanities grants, Majkut researched medieval attitudes on sin and anti-Semitism at Cambridge and Oxford. As a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Argentina, Finland, and Germany, Majkut taught American literature and culture. As a journalist, Majkut won numerous awards for his writing from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Los Angeles, the Southern California, and San Diego Press Clubs, and the Society for Professional Journalism.