Episode 3 — Operation New Life

In this episode, Dr. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi discusses Guam’s role as the primary way station for South Vietnamese refugees in the chaotic months immediately following the end of the Vietnam War. April 2021 marks the 46th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon — and the beginning of the massive evacuation and resettlement effort known as Operation New Life.

Dr. Gandhi is an assistant professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (Tovaangar). Her book, Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers in Guam and Israel-Palestine, is forthcoming with UC Press in spring 2022. Evyn's grandmother and mother were Vietnamese refugees who were processed on Guam during Operation New Life.

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Interviewees:

• Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo
• Hồ Ngọc Hoa
• Joaquin "Kin" Perez
• Gordon Ritter
• Vicky Ritter
• Bianca Nguyen

Music:

• Memoirs Pasifika intro/outro song - Ryan Shook
• One - www.anthonykozar.net
• Septieme - www.anthonykozar.net
• Drifting 2 - Audionautix
• NavajoNight - Audionautix
• Desaprendere (Treatment) - Fourstones
• Tremelo1-gtr - Fourstones

Team:

• Producer / Host - Tony Azios
• Audio Engineer - Ryan Shook
• Intern - Annie Fay Camacho