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Menno Simmons College, 520 Portage Avenue - 2m512 and 2m513, Winnipeg, MB
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Authors of Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980 Michael J. Molloy and Peter Duschinsky will join a panel discussion, Refugee Resettlement, at Menno Simons College in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Dr. Stephane Stobbe ( Conflict Resolution Studies, Menno Simon College)
Mike Molloy and Peter Duschinsky (Canadian Immigration Historical Society)
Tom Denton (Hospitality House Refugee Ministry)
John Wieler (Former Director, Mennonite Central Committee)
Brian Dyck ( Head, Sponsorship Agreement Holders Association and National Migration and Resettlement Coordinator, Mennonite Central Committee)
Professor Shauna Labman (Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba - Immigration and Refugee Law)
The fall of Saigon in April 1975 resulted in the largest and most ambitious refugee resettlement effort in Canada’s history. Running on Empty presents the challenges and successes of this bold refugee resettlement program. It traces the actions of a few dozen men and women who travelled to seventy remote refugee camps, worked long days in humid conditions, subsisted on dried noodles and green tea, and sometimes slept on their worktables while rats scurried around them - all in order to resettle thousands of people displaced by war and oppression.
Michael J. Molloy is an honorary senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, and was senior coordinator of the Indochinese Refugee Task Force from 1979 to 1980.
Peter Duschinsky is a retired immigration Foreign Service officer and Immigration Canada’s former director of international liaison.
"Running on Empty is a compelling narrative about how Canada was able to resettle Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, and Hmong refugees during a time of international crisis. A valuable addition to Canadian immigration history." Vinh Nguyen, Renison University College at University of Waterloo