VIETNAMESE RESOURCES

The following is a list of resources for Vietnamese adoptees compiled over the years.  It includes information about the country, reunions, searches, stories/experiences of other adoptees, and many more bits and pieces.
 

• Adopted Vietnamese International (AVI)
• Vietnamese Adoptee Network (VAN)
• Operation Reunite

Vietnamese Adoptee Stories

• Songs by Susie - Vietnamese Aussie adoptee
• Daughter from Danang - Heidi Bub's Story
• Project Bui Doi
• 3 Adoptees Blog - Misplaced Baggage
• Leonie Simmons - Identity, Home & Family
• Dominic's Blog with photos of Vietnam
• Jen's Story on YouTube
• Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love and Search for Home (Book)
• Sarnia's Poems
• Kim Edgar's Story & Poetry
• Emma's Poem
• Suanne's Search & Reunion with Birth Family
• Jamie's Return to Vietnam
• Jamie's Poems
• Lynelle's Return to Vietnam Photos
• Kim's Poem
• Kim's Story
• Zion's Story on ABC Rewind
• Heidi Bub's Reunion with Birth Family
• Dominic's Thoughts
• Dominic's Blog
• Sue-Yen's First Return Trip to Vietnam
• Jen's Story
• Jen's Sancta Maria Reunion Trip
• Analee's Return to Vietnam
• Catherine's Search for Birth Family (Vietnam)
• Catherine's Article about her Search
• Catherine's Journals of her Reunion
• Indigo's Return to Vietnam for Tet
• Hoa's Story
• Leigh Bancroft's Story "Missing Vietnam" on Video: Hybrid Life
• Tyler, Dom, Jen & Faith: Babes in Arms
• Documentary: Never Perfect

• Beyond the Vietnam war adoptions: representing our transracial lives

• Vietnam: Will adoptions bring orphans a better life?
•  Jahred Rehberg - Vietnamese singer / songwriter
• Missing Vietnam (Blog) and MPEG of Leigh Bancroft's return trip
• Daughter from Danang (Vietnamese adoptee story) available online for those within the USA

• Operation Babylift: An Adoptee's Perspective by Kevin Allen (VN adoptee)

• International Adoption & the Babylift Legacy by Kev Minh & Sumeia Williams
• I Don't Know by Bert Ballard (VN adoptee)
• My Huong Le's Story - Vietnamese adoptee
• Asian born surgeon becomes German Health Minister

• The babies airlifted out of Saigon

• From Saigon to Sussex - Reuniting the Vietnamese Airlift Orphans

• Finding Alice

Multi Media

• Film Trailer: Journey from the Fall
• Play Shrimp by Dominic Golding
• Film: Operation Babylift - The Lost Children of Vietnam (by Tammy Lee, USA)
• Film: Operation Babylift (by Dai Le, Australia)
• Australia's "Operation Babylift" film review by IWWilling
• French Film shows part of daily life for Vietnamese adoptees
• Film: My Brother is getting Married (Vietnamese Adoptee)
• Film: Mother Fish by Khoa Do
• YouTube: The Kristine Sa Show - Operation Babylift (USA) interviews
  part 1, 2 & 3
• Radio: Operation Babylift
   

• Adult Adoptees of Southeast Asia (AASEA)
• Adopted Vietnamese International (AVI)
• Vietnamese Adoptee Network (VAN)
• South Asian International Adoptees Talk (SAIA-T)
   

Searching for Birth Family

• TV show that assists searching families in Vietnam
• TV Show in Vietnam: As If Never Separated (translated in English)

Reports

• US Embassy Report: Summary of Irregularities in Adoptions in Vietnam (2008)

Camps / Return Visits

• Holt Adoptee Camps for Vietnamese Adoptees in the USA

• Vietnamese Sancta Maria Adoptees:
  Reunion being organised for 2010
  Contact Peter for details

• Photos of Vietnamese Orphanages

• Motherland Tours

Unethical Adoptions from Vietnam

• No more nice playing
• Unfollowed followups
• Warning concerning adoptions from Vietnam
• Adoptees say local adoption system not free from irregularities
• Former director of adoption agency arrested
• Corruption in Vietnamese adoptions
• Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity
• Vietnam puts 16 people on trial for selling babies for foreign adoption
• Six jailed for Vietnam baby fraud
• Vietnam jails 6 for adoption fraud

Other

• Vietnam Babylift
• Australian Vietnamese Adoptee News Articles from early 1970's
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