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In its original meaning, an Amerasian is a person born in Asia, to a U.S. military father and an Asian mother. The term has sometimes been used to describe a person in the United States of mixed Asian and non-Asian ancestry, regardless of the circumstances.
Several countries have significant populations of Amerasians, including the islands that dot the Pacific Ocean. These countries include Japan (Okinawa), Thailand (Phuket and Pattaya Beach), South Korea, the former South Vietnam, and most notably, the Philippines, where the largest U.S. air and naval bases outside the U.S. mainland were situated.
The term was coined by writer Pearl S. Buck and was formalized by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Many people were born to Asian women and U.S. servicemen during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The official definition of Amerasian came about as a result of Public Law 97-359, enacted by the 97th Congress of the United States on October 22, 1982.
According to theAmerasian children were a fixture on the streets of Saigon from 1980 to 1987. Most had a very hard time; no parents and they were regarded as outcasts in society. Finally by 1988-1990, the US and Vietnamese governments agreed to allow nearly all to settle in the United States. Under the American Homecoming Act of 1988, about 23,000 Amerasians and 67,000 of their relatives entered the United States. These are excerpts of video shot in 1985 and 1987.
A wonderful reunion between father and son.
Footage shot in 1991 at the Amerasian Center in Saigon. Some footage was used in the soon to be rereleased "from Hollywood to HAnoi" by Tiana Alexandra. We are now working on a followup film and hope to include stories of Amerasians still in Vietnam and other places around the world. visit www.fatherfounded.org
Fascinating and disturbing stories from the BBC Holidays in the Danger Zone team. ** secretly arrange to meet a group of Amerasians, children of US soldiers conceived during the Vietnam war.
When the Americans left the Philippines in 1992, they left behind some 50,000 AmerAsian children who were born to Filipino women. Today, Filipino AmerAsians are estimated to number about 250,000, including second and third generation descendants. The US government did not recognize them as Americans despite their American fathers.
A look at Natasha Driscoll of Atlanta and living the American Dream in the U.S.
My Name Is James I Am Looking for my Father who was in Vietnam War.
2015 marked the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, ending the Vietnam War. Many of the American soldiers who served in Vietnam left behind children they fathered. Some were abandoned in Vietnam, others were adopted here in the United States. What happened to these forgotten children? Correspondent Mike Gilliam provides an exclusive report and interviews Kien Nguyen, Author of “The Unwanted,” and Trista Goldberg, Founder of Operation Reunite, a non-profit organization that provides DNA tests to help reconnect birth parents to their Amerasian children. Show: Asian American Life Aired: November 2015
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