Snehanjali
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Hi:
I noticed that NSC is showing a I-485 IndoChina Category?.. What does this category mean...
Sneha
I noticed that NSC is showing a I-485 IndoChina Category?.. What does this category mean...
Sneha
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I-485 : IndoChina
- Thread starter Snehanjali
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not what you might think...
"indochina" has little to do with either india or china. it is an archaic colonial name for the region which is now more properly refered to as southeast asia, and includes the countries of burma, thailand, cambodia, laos and vietnam.
that the BCIS should employ such anachronistic nomenclature to refer to the region strangely prefaces the fact that that region's refugee crisis is also a thing of the past. the vietnam war was over in 1975, the cambodian khmer rouge regime, who gained notoriety for their "killing fields", were ousted in 1979, and their allies, the pathet lao regime in laos, soon after - if memory serves me right. then the new vietnamese-backed regime of hun sen in cambodia, which long remained an object of villification in u.s. foreign policy rhetoric, has, since the 1980s, become a coalition government that includes the western-backed norodom sihanouk. the remnants of the khmer rouge have been reduced to a small, ragtag bunch of bandits, banished to the remote jungle of cambodia bordering thailand, following the death of their deranged leader, pol pot. in burma, the confrontation between the ruling military junta and supporters of aung san suu kyi has not come to such a head as to create a refugee crisis.
so one wonders where these "indochinese" refugees are coming from, or could it be that we are looking at the grandmother of all backlogs?
"indochina" has little to do with either india or china. it is an archaic colonial name for the region which is now more properly refered to as southeast asia, and includes the countries of burma, thailand, cambodia, laos and vietnam.
that the BCIS should employ such anachronistic nomenclature to refer to the region strangely prefaces the fact that that region's refugee crisis is also a thing of the past. the vietnam war was over in 1975, the cambodian khmer rouge regime, who gained notoriety for their "killing fields", were ousted in 1979, and their allies, the pathet lao regime in laos, soon after - if memory serves me right. then the new vietnamese-backed regime of hun sen in cambodia, which long remained an object of villification in u.s. foreign policy rhetoric, has, since the 1980s, become a coalition government that includes the western-backed norodom sihanouk. the remnants of the khmer rouge have been reduced to a small, ragtag bunch of bandits, banished to the remote jungle of cambodia bordering thailand, following the death of their deranged leader, pol pot. in burma, the confrontation between the ruling military junta and supporters of aung san suu kyi has not come to such a head as to create a refugee crisis.
so one wonders where these "indochinese" refugees are coming from, or could it be that we are looking at the grandmother of all backlogs?
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