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"exiled" [2020] is an ethnographic film on the deportation of Southeast Asian Refugees. It explores the myriad struggles of Cambodian refugees as they survived the Vietnam War, the Khmer Rouge, relocation to the U.S., and navigating the criminal justice and immigration systems. Bio: Dr. Pollie Bith-Melander (AKA Dr. Pollie) was born in Cambodia and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 10-years old. She received her BA in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, her master's and PHD degrees from the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She received her Master’s degree in Social Work from California State University at East Bay. A former faculty member at San Jose State, she is an assistant professor of social work at CSU Stanislaus. Her research focuses is on ethnomedicine, HIV/AIDS, Trauma, Refugees, and Community Mental Health. Pollie conducts research in Southeast Asia and in the U.S., and she is currently working on various research projects. One of them focuses on the misdiagnosis of children in urban public schools. She is also working with a team of researchers on a research project that examines clinical symptoms of burn pits among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Her current community project is on the 1.5 Generation of Southeast Asian Refugee Deportation, a visual ethnography entitled, “Exiled Once Again.”

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Free and open to the public

Event Sponsor
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Mānoa Campus

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Teri L Skillman, 8089562676, skillman@hawaii.edu