TY - BOOK AU - McLellan,Janet TI - Cambodian Refugees in Ontario: Resettlement, Religion, and Identity SN - 9780802099624 AV - F1059.7.C27 M35 2009eb U1 - 305.895/930713 PY - 2009///] CY - Toronto : PB - University of Toronto Press, KW - Cambodians KW - Ontario KW - History KW - Religion KW - Social conditions KW - Refugees KW - Cambodia KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - The communist Khmer Rouge party of Cambodia was officially in power from 1975 to 1979. During that time, the regime killed and displaced large numbers of its citizens and after its overthrow by Vietnamese communists, many survivors fled, to become refugees. Cambodian Refugees in Ontario examines three generations of Cambodian refugees: adult survivors of the Khmer Rouge, the children and older youth who accompanied them, and the children born and raised in Ontario, Canada.Janet McLellan uses ten years of ethnographic fieldwork, including extensive interviews, to highlight the difficulties Cambodians have faced in Canada. Lack of appropriate resettlement services combined with high levels of illiteracy, post-traumatic stress, single-parent households, and little urban experience or employment skills have made it difficult for Cambodian immigrants to rebuild their lives. Nevertheless, McLellan finds that the Canadian-born children of Cambodian refugees are achieving greater levels of educational and professional mobility while accessing fluid cultural identities reflecting both Canadian and transnational contexts UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442697713 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442697713/original ER -