Un apprentissage difficile : le programme gouvernemental pour l'installation des réfugiés vietnamiens au Royaume-Uni

Learning the hard way: the government programme to resettle the Vietnamese refugees in the U.K. Experiences with earlier refugee groups (Jews, Poles, Hungarians, East African, Asians, etc.) have conditioned British government policies seeking the dispersal of refugee populations as a way of preventing concentrations. These policies were applied to the Vietnamese from 1979 onwards, but without adequate measures being taken to ensure the availability of housing or to promote the integration of the refugee population. Evidence collected here suggests that the policy of dispersal of the Vietnamese was not as successful as had been intended by government, with the emergence of strong clusters right from the outset. There has also been an intensive pattern of secondary migration by the refugees since their arrival in the U.K., with flows predominantly towards London and other major cities already housing strong Vietnamese communities.