Van Martini and Phi-Hung "Phil" Nguyen
Recorded
January 24, 2015
44:05 minutes
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Id:
sfd001257
Description
Van Martini (53) talks with her cousin Phil Nguyen (45) about how their family escaped Vietnam, their first experiences in the refugee camp, arriving in Connecticut and later California, and what being Vietnamese and American means to them.Subject Log / Time Code
VM shares about being in the airport with her family and what the scene was like waiting to get on a plane out of Vietnam
PN talks about how the different people in his family got out
VM describes why her father and uncle, who were in the military, would not leave their men
PN talks about the challenges of arriving quickly on a plane
VM shares about not having any support system in the US
VM talks about the only discrimination she experienced
PN describes how a family photo was printed in a New Haven newspaper
PN shares about some of the differences in experience between waves of immigration from Vietnam
PN talks about negotiating between a Vietnamese and American identity
PN and VM share about what they have carried with them
Participants
- Van Martini
- Phi-Hung "Phil" Nguyen