Counterpoint: Vietnamese Boat People

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Counterpoint: Vietnamese Boat People

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Details

Location

Brownlow, Brownlow College, Burnside, Craigavon, Rossmoyle

Year

1979

Date

Transmission 01/12/1979

Length

08min 34sec

Audio

sound

Format

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

This episode of Counterpoint tells the story of the

Vietnamese boat people who were settled in Craigavon in 1979. Craigavon

was the first area within Northern Ireland to receive refugees and the

programme looks at some of the practicalities around accommodation and

employment, interviewing William Boyd, who outlines how resettlement was

coordinated through a community response, visiting language classes in Brownlow

College, and talking to a refugee who has found a work placement as a welder.

Credits

 Interviewer: Gary Gillespie

Contributor: William Boyd 

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