Bui Doi: Life Like Dust
A preview of a documentary film which focuses on Vietnamese refugees and gang members in the United States. For additional information on bui Doi, see Dreams, Faeries, and Tails -- Bui Doi.

Daughter from Danang
In 1975, with the end of the war in Vietnam imminent, Mai Thi Kim, a poor, young Vietnamese woman, sent her seven-year-old daughter to America as part of a controversial evacuation program known as Operation Babylift. The parting was devastating to both mother and child, but Kim believed her Amerasian daughter -- the product of a brief love affair with an American Navy officer -- would be in danger in Vietnam. The little girl was adopted by a single woman, renamed Heidi and brought up in Tennessee, where she concealed her Asian past and became "101%" American. Twenty-two years later, Heidi tracked down her birth mother and visited Danang. The reunion that had raised so many hopes and expectations for Heidi and Kim quickly became rife with tension and misunderstanding as the cultural gulf between Heidi and her Vietnamese family grew larger and larger. This film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (2002) and won the 2002 Sundance Grand Jury Prize. A teacher's guide is available on the PBS website as well a background information realting to the film.

Little Saigon Net
Little Saigon's website is an on-line information kiosk to community services for the Vietnamese-American community of southern California, providing information on social and religious organizations' activities, youth and senior group activities, community issues, business resources, and information about the successes of Vietnamese around the world.

Pho Hoa: Vietnamese Noodle Soup
Pho is a staple in the Vietnamese diet. This site describes a franchised pho shop in the U.S. and provides information about the dish.

Project Diaspora: Study of the Vietnamese Overseas
Since 2000, the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences has been the host site for two Rockefeller Fellows in the Humanities each year. The program will focus on (Re)Constructing Identity and Place in the Vietnamese Diaspora. The project's website includes a description of the program, an introduction to the project's staff and collaborative institutions, articles and documents, project activities, Vietnamese links on the Web, and links to other diaspora websites.

Southeast Asian Archives
This University of California, Irvine, site provides information relating to the resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees in the U.S.

Tieng Magazine
Tieng Magazine's mission is to voice the issues of those who are caught between two cultures by creating an accessible journal of Vietnamese American life. The philosophy of the journal is an appreciation of the heritage of Vietnamese culture without restricting its readers to the definitions of the Vietnamese American role. it's editor Michael Nguyen says, "To be Vietnamese American is to be unique - we strive to be a resource for all Vietnamese Americans."

U.S.-Indochina Educational Foundation
The U.S.-Indochina Educational Foundation, Inc. (USIEF) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is to contribute to the development of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam by offering some of its most promising students the opportunity to pursue advanced education and training in the U.S. The Foundation is also committed to educating Americans about conditions in a part of Southeast Asia whose recent past is closely linked to our own, as well as strengthening ties between this important region and the U.S.

Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home
Website for a book by Thomas Bass which discusses the United States and Vietnam from the end of the war to the present as symbolized by and seen through the eyes of Amerasian children. The site also includes book reviews, ordering information, a photo gallery, and information about the author.

The Vietnamese Boat People Connection
Two Vietnamese refugees have created this important site that enables other Vietnamese "boatpeople" to share their exeriences and perhaps even locate relatives. The site features information on refugee issues and discusses Vietnamese history and the saga of the boatpeople. Also available is information on Vietnamese folktales, heroes and heroines, and a country background. See also, the U.S. Committee for Refugees, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and A World in Motion: Refugees and Resources, a bibliographic essay by Robin Paynter which provides a wealth of links on refugees.


Vietscape: The Vietnam Entertainment Network
The Vietnam Entertainment Network, from San Jose, California, provides information on Vietnamese CDs, biographies of singers. reviews of movies featuring Vietnamese actors, pictures of Vietnam. and a listing of Bay-area Vietnamese-related events.

The Vietnamese Professionals Society
The Vietnamese Professionals Society is a non-profit international organization whose mission is "to increase the knowledge and understanding of the social and economic conditions in Vietnam, to promote the welfare of the Vietnamese people and, through international cooperative effort, to apply science, technology, and humanity to the renovation of Vietnam." The website, available in both Vietnamese and English, describes the history and organization of the society and provides Vietnam-related links. Also of interest is the website for the Vietnamese Association for Computing, Engineering Technology, and Science (VACETS), an international organization for information exchange and the fostering of professional friendships.

Viet San Diego Online
Viet San Diego, a website of the city's Vietnamese community, offers a comprehensive, annotated Vietnam Resources Center, providing links to Vietnam-related information on society, culture, business, law, organizations, Vietnamese student associations, Vietnamese communities online, pictures, religion, social science, science and technology, software, travel, and veterans and the war.

Worldwide Refugee Information: Vietnam
The website of the U.S. Committee for Refugees includes a country report on Vietnam, the status of repatriation to Vietnam, Orderly Departure Program (ODP) resettlement, and Cambodian refugees in Vietnam. The site also provides the voices of refugees around the world in Real Audio format.

See also:
Asian American Writers' Workshop
Viet-Austin.com
New Orleans Vietnamese Online