Showing posts with label cambodia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cambodia. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Film Review: Sentenced Home


As a result of stricter post-Sept. 11 antiterrorism laws, three Cambodian-American immigrants living in Seattle face deportation for felony crimes they committed -- and served time for -- as teens, many years earlier. Following their subjects over the course of three years, filmmakers David Grabias and Nicole Newnham put a human face on troubling aspects of immigration in America in this documentary, which screened on PBS's "Independent Lens" series.

Book Review, Cambodia: Dragon Chica


Dragon Chica by May-Lee Chai

A family survives the horror of the killing fields of Pol Pot in Cambodia in the 1970's,  or at least part of a family survives and, finally, in the 1980’s, reaches the United States. The widowed mother and her five children move from place to place, having financial difficulties wherever they go, and facing cultural misunderstandings  from those who know nothing of Cambodia or Cambodians.