From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Cambodians/khmer/Janet Mclellan
Excellent introductory studies of recent events in Cambodia are David P. Chandler, The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945 (New Haven, Conn., 1991); Eva Mysliwiec, Punishing the Poor: The International Isolation of Kampuchea (Oxford, U.K., 1988); and Haing Ngor, A Cambodian Odyssey (New York, 1987).
Studies of Cambodian immigrants in the United States can provide crucial insight into the Cambodian experience in Canada. A number of works of this type include: May Ebihara, “Khmer,” in David Haines, ed., Refugees in the United States (Westport, Conn., 1985); Seanglim Bit, The Warrior Heritage: A Psychological Perspective of Cambodian Trauma (El Cerrito, Calif., 1991); and Maurice Eisenbruch, “From Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to Cultural Bereavement: Diagnosis of Southeast Asian Refugees,” Social Science Medicine, vol.33, no.6 (1991), 673–80.
In Canada, a number of shorter studies on Cambodians have appeared, all of them quite recent and focused on the urban centres where they have settled in significant numbers. See, for example, Louis-Jacques Dorais and Lise Pilon-Le, Les communautés cambodgienne et laotienne de Québec (Quebec City, 1988); Gilles Cossette and Pen Phan, “L’implantation des Cambodigiens à Montréal: marche vers le village,” in Kwok B. Chan and Louis-Jacques Dorais, eds., Adaptation linguistique et culturelle: l’expérience des réfugiés d’Asie du Sud-est au Québec (Quebec City, 1987), 167–206; Louis-Jacques Dorais, “Refugee Adaptation and Community Structure: The Indochinese in Quebec City, Canada,” International Migration Review, vol.25, no.3 (1991), 551–73; Robert Garry, “Cambodia,” in E.L. Tepper, ed., Southeast Asian Exodus (Ottawa, 1980), 33–54; and Janet McLellan, Cambodian Refugees in Ontario: An Evaluation of Resettlement and Adaptation (Toronto, 1994).
