Yen Hoang Lam and her family were exiled from Vietnam in the late 1970s fleeing their home country by boat.
A Vietnamese migrant who fled her home country just after the Vietnam War before reaching the UK has said the public is “not as welcoming” to migrants today.
“One of my earliest memories is actually seeing my father cry, as he had to… sell everything to get money to get passage to Macau initially.”Ms Lam’s father, Manh Hoang, is of Chinese heritage and part of Vietnam’s ethnic minority known as Hoa, a community which was exiled from Vietnam between 1978 and 1979.
The family were flown to Livingston in Scotland and Ms Lam described her time there as positive saying she was “very well received in the community”. She believes the UK public’s current perception of migrants is not the same as her experience more than 40 years ago.“The feeling towards migrants is very poor. In my time, people were very kind to us because it was new.Yen Hoang Lam, a GP from Croydon, fled her home country via boat aged five shortly after the Vietnam War
He told PA: “It’s uncovering and showcasing British East and Southeast Asian history as far as the 1500s to now detailing our journeys coming from Southeast Asia and our struggles, for example, with racism and assimilation.“I think uncovering these stories completely transforms your sense of belonging and confidence to exist fully and proudly.
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