Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Ban Vinai refugee camp (1975–92)
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1975–92 — A camp in Thailand’s Loei province becomes home to some 40,000 Hmong at its peak. Many refused resettlement in the West for years, hoping to go home to Laos, and kept their villages’ clan structures and crafts alive behind the fence.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Re-education camps and Hoa exodus (chapter 8 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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