Problem
How do these two different accounts reflect the range of refugee experiences? What does each experience tell you about the conditions under which people can be displaced by conflict? How is the year of displacement significant to the refugee experience? Explicitly compare and contrast the experiences together.
• Source: Asian American Experiences in the United States: Oral Histories of First- to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam, and Cambodia
• Source: The Far East Comes Near: Autobiographical Accounts of Southeast Asian Students in America.