50 Years of Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement: Research and Reflections on Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This proposed REAPA SIG session brings together Asian American education scholars who have contributed to the development of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement’s (JSAAEA) book Research and Reflections on Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement (Wright et al., forthcoming). It is JSAAEA’s 20th anniversary and our session highlights some ways that the journal’s emergence in 2005 represented a timely intervention across various fields of study that examined Asian and Southeast Asian American education. This symposium session will shed light on Southeast Asian American communities in the U.S. education system, particularly as 2025 marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon which initiated the resettlement of large numbers of Southeast Asian refugees.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Education and Research

Chair

• Vichet Chhuon, University of Minnesota

Papers

• Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions - Mike Hoa Nguyen, University of California - Los Angeles

• The Joys and Growing Pains of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement - Wayne E. Wright, Purdue University; Vikrant Chap, Purdue University

• Vietnamese American women public school administrators leading for social justice and equity - Jia Liang, Kansas State University

• HMoob Eldership as Pedagogy: Reclaiming HMoob Knowledge as HMoob Education - Thong Vang, University of Minnesota

Discussant

• Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy, University of Massachusetts - Lowell