Scope and Contents

Description The Jackson-Desbarats Study contains information collected from refugees by University of California at Berkeley professor Dr. Karl D. Jackson and Jacqueline Desbarats related to human rights violations in post-war Vietnam and post-resettlement migration patterns of refugees (particularly Vietnamese) in the United States.

The first series, General Files, contains material about project genesis, implementation, and final results.

The second series, Interviews and Completed Vietnamese Resettlement Questionnaires, contains the collected interview data used for their studies and papers. The questionnaire asked for reasons the Vietnamese immigrated to the United States as well as the reasons they move within the United States, and was broken down into the following sections:
Phan I. Những tin tức về nhân khẩu học xã hội (Personal information).
Phan II. Định thực về sự lưu chuyển địa lý (General migration history).
Phan II.A. Ở Việt-Nam (di chuyển quan trọng nhất ở Việt-Nam) (Move in Vietnam)
Phan II.B. Ra đi từ Việt-Nam (Departed Vietnam).
Phan II.C. Kinh nghiêm ở trại tị nạn (Experience in refugee camp).
Phan II.D. Nơi định cư đầu tiên (Place of first settlement).
Phan II.E. Nơi cư ngụ kế tiếp tại mỹ (Next residence in America).
Phan II.F. Nơi cư ngụ thứ ba tài hoa kỳ (Third residence in America).
Phan II.G. Nơi cư ngụ thứ tư tài hoa kỳ (Fourth residence in America).
Phan II.H. Nơi cư ngụ thứ nám tại hoa kỳ (Current place of residence in the U.S.).
Phan III. Ở thước nhửng nhóm chính yếu ở hoa kỳ (Main groups in the U.S.).
Phan IV. Kiến thức về địa phương, sự ưa chuộng và ước định dí cư (Local knowledge, preferences and intentions to migrate).


Scope/Content There are 16 linear feet of material in the Jackson-Desbarats Study collection. The General Files contain 3 linear feet of material, most of which is in English. The Interviews and Completed Vietnamese Resettlement Questionnaires contains 13 linear feet of material, most of which is in Vietnamese with some French, Korean, Chinese, English, and Cambodian. Most of the interviews were done anonymously and are not in any particular organization. A blank sheet of paper separates interviews within each folder. The material is in good condition.

Biographical / Historical

Professor Pike was born in 1925. He served as a journalist in the Army during World War II (in the Pacific Theater of Operations) and during the Korean Conflict. He earned degrees from the University of California-Berkeley and American University. He served as an FSO in Taiwan, Korea, Lebanon, and Vietnam. In 1982 he began teaching at UC-Berkeley and in 1997 moved Texas Tech University. Professor Pike housed and supported the Collection until 1982 when he moved it to Berkeley. It remained there until 1992 when Berkeley considered discontinuing its support for the Indo-China Studies Project. After being approached by Professor Pike, Dr. James Reckner, Director of the Vietnam Center at Tech, and Dr. David Murrah, Assistant Director of Libraries for the Special Collections, worked together to bring the Collection to the Archive in 1994.

Series

• Series - General Files
• Series - Interview and Completed Vietnamese Resettlement Questionnaires