The Vietnamese Boat People

The Vietnamese Boat People podcast is stories of hope, survival and resilience. Between 1975 to 1992, almost two million Vietnamese risked their lives to flee oppression and hardship after the Vietnam War, in one of the largest mass exoduses in modern history. Escaping by boat, many found freedom in foreign land, many were captured and brutally punished, and many did not survive the journey. This population of people are known as the ‘Vietnamese Boat People‘ and these are their stories. Support the show and the mission to elevate our stories at www.vietnameseboatpeople.org/donate We are a 501(c)3 tax-deductible organization. Thank you for your support!

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 29m. Bisher sind 56 Folge(n) erschienen. .

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 6 hours

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episode 44: #44 Bonus Episode: Listening Party


The stories we share on Vietnamese Boat People are often harrowing tales of people surviving adversities and finding strength and resilience to move forward. Diving into their family histories and trauma, our interviewees can all be described as brav...


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 November 16, 2022  31m
 
 

episode 43: #43 Bonus Episode: Healing Thru Writing


Family Histories & Emotional Truths: Healing Thru WritingAn intimate discussion with three Vietnamese-Americans who turned to writing as a way to confront and reconcile with their histories and upbringings. Featuring:Alison Hong Nguyen Lihalakha, aut...


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 October 26, 2022  1h5m
 
 

episode 42: #42 - Ambiguous Grief


Thi and Phuong Nam Doan are two sisters born in Portland, Oregon. In 2020, their mom was diagnosed with lewy body dementia, a type of progressive dementia that leads to a decline in thinking, reasoning and independent function. The family has been na...


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 July 27, 2022  36m
 
 

episode 41: #41 - Live Episode! The Magic Fish


Trung Lê Nguyễn was born in 1990 in a refugee camp in Palawan, Philippines. His parents escaped Vietnam by boat and resettled in Minnesota, USA shortly after Trung was born. He grew up learning English with his parents through picture books and was a...


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 June 14, 2022  48m
 
 

episode 40: #40 - 2022 Mỹ Việt Story Slam


​Many of us have experienced losses that have changed our lives. We have lost loved ones to war, harsh living conditions and arduous migrations or to illnesses, age and more recently to the pandemic. But sometimes the loss can be an invaluable object...


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 May 31, 2022  1h6m
 
 

episode 39: #39 - The Mountains Sing


When she was six years old, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and her family left their small village in northern Việt Nam for Bạc Liêu, a city located in one of the southernmost points of the country. As a northerner growing up in the south after 1975, Quế Mai wi...


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 April 28, 2022  29m
 
 

episode 38: #38 - Cooking From Memory


Growing up, Ly Nguyen and her mom did not have the most understanding or tender relationship. Ly remembers the friction starting very early in her childhood, when she was molested by a family member and found that she wasn’t able to talk about it wit...


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 April 6, 2022  24m
 
 

episode 37: #37 - Three Funerals For My Father


Jolie Phuong Hoang remembers how her family ran into hiding in a temple as her town of Đà Lạt was being taken over by North Vietnamese soldiers in 1975. She escaped Vietnam in 1983 with five of her older siblings on a boat that their father had built...


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 March 10, 2022  29m
 
 

episode 36: #36 - LIVE Episode! House of Sticks


Ly Tran was born in Viet Nam and came to America at the age of three in 1993 with her older brothers and parents through the U.S. Orderly Departure Program called Humanitarian Operations. Soon after they arrived, Ly joins her parents and three older ...


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 February 9, 2022  33m
 
 

episode 35: #35 - PodSwap! Seven Million Bikes


Breaking Barriers Through Conversations: The Making of the Vietnamese Boat People Podcast. Bonus Episode, Seven Million Bikes: a Saigon-based podcast hosted by Niall Mackay, originally from Scotland, who now lives in Saigon. The podcast shares exper...


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 December 22, 2021  49m