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The Philippine Refugee Processing Center: The Relational Displacements of Vietnamese Refugees and the Indigenous Aetas

• Description: 24 pages, 2020 — “Established in 1980, the Philippines Refugee Processing Center (PRPC) on the Bataan Peninsula served as the most prominent transit center for Vietnamese refugees making their way to resettlement in America. This paper first shows how the PRPC allowed President Ferdinand Marcos' government recast itself as a humanitarian state in order to divert attention away from its martial law policies. It then focuses on a largely-hidden fact of the Marcos government's construction of the PRPC: the eviction and relocation of the indigenous Ayta people from Sitio Lemon. Highlighting the eviction of the Ayta changes the PRPC narrative from one about accepting refugees to one about displacing Indigenous peoples, a reminder that refugee resettlement is always conditioned by and through settler colonialism.”

Resource(s) provided by: J.A. Ruanto-Ramirez

Information organized by: Nicole Saley Diwag

Updated: September 21, 2020