| Collection Name: |
Southeast Asian History: Cambodian Life Histories |
| Repository Name: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Long Beach, California, United States |
| URL: |
http://salticid.nmc.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/OralAural.woa/ |
| Material Formats: |
[10 documents with audio] [1 document with video] |
| Description: |
Starting in the late 1970s, after the fall of Khmer Rouge, the Cambodian population of Long Beach swelled and the city became home to the largest Cambodian population outside of Cambodia. The origins of the Cambodian community in Long Beach, however, date back to the late 1950s, when an exchange program brought students from Cambodia to CSULB to study, some of who remained. In 1975, the first wave of 4,600 Cambodian immigrants arrived. These people who either were able to escape Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge takeover, or who were outside of the country at the time, were generally highly educated. In 1977 they established the first Cambodian community agency (United Cambodian Community). |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
11 |
| Interviews: |
[11 interview(s) listed in this collection] |
| Broad Subjects: |
Military; Politics; Wars and Conflicts |
| ASP Subjects: |
Cambodia; Cambodia--History--1975-1979; Cambodia--History--Civil War, 1970-1975; Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975; Khmer Rouge, Cambodia; Oral history; Refugees--Cambodia; United States; United States--Emigration and immigration |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0004571 |
