Cambodian Journeys - Stories of Refugees Surviving the Khmer Rouge

Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge genocide claimed an estimated 1.7 million lives. Survivors faced starvation, torture, and dangerous journeys through mountainous and mine-filled jungles. Upon arriving at refugee camps, they faced uncertainty and hardship before eventually moving to the USA where they struggled to adapt to urban life. This book tells the survival stories of seven Cambodians who endured the Khmer Rouge Genocide, their escape to Thailand, and their difficult resettlement in the United States. It is a collection of first-person oral histories, supplemented by images of documents and photographs, highlighting journeys of resilience, survival, and adaptation amidst profound trauma.

About the author

Stephen Mamula is an ethnographic writer who specializes in the cultural ecologies of Cambodia and urban North America. He has held teaching positions including at Columbia University, Fordham University, and Providence College. He contributed to the volume Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity (University of Hawaii Press, 2013) and has delivered lectures at the Library of Congress, Harvard University, Yale University, UCLA, Sapienza Universita di Roma, and elsewhere on his research.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Mamula, Stephen Sutton? Mamula, Eva Sutton
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9781836950943
• ISBN: 978-1-83695-094-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Forced Migration
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum