Saskatoon Launch: Running on Empty

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Join co-author Michael J. Molloy for the Saskatoon launch of Running On Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975–1980. This event is presented in partnership with the Saskatoon Vietnamese Association.

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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.

Kurt F. Jensen is a retired foreign service officer and adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University.

Robert J. Shalka, a retired immigration foreign service officer was one of two officers sent to Thailand to establish a new program for refugees from Thailand and Laos.