Massive refugee migrations in Southeast Asia set off in 1975 by changes of government in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, are a problem of both humanitarian and political concern. The refugees pose potentially disruptive political problems for the asylum countries, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. Only a few countries, the United States, France, Australia, and Canada, have accepted an appreciable number of refugees for resettlement. In an effort to obtain worldwide participation in alleviating the Indochina refugee crisis, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has changed its funding program and has held international conferences aimed at obtaining more resettlement offers. It is imperative that appropriate asylum and additional temporary care facilities be provided and effectively managed. Current law does not clearly express U.S. intentions and commitments to refugee resettlement and has made planning and processing of refugees very difficult. Commitments need to be more formally embodied in law to express the will of Congress and possibly to motivate other nations to share refugee relief. A refugee admission and resettlement policy needs to be established.

This bibliography contains printed materials for the period from April 1975 to the end of 1981 in relation to the resettlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States. The entries are listed alphabetically by principal author and/or issuing organization. They include journal and periodical articles, scholarly papers, research reports, books, and government publications. Newspaper articles, commercial dictionaries and text-books, or articles for which no personal authors were ascertainable are not indicated. Following the bibliography there is an appendix which sets out the procedure for acquiring items from Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) and Refugee Materials Center (RMC). There are also DAI, ERIC, RMC, geographical, and subject indexes.

This book focuses on the relationship between international migrants and host societies and discusses the historical uniqueness of the Indochinese refugee migration for the U.S. and France. It is more than the study of one refugee population and examines the relative importance of history.