Growing up in Long Beach, California, Victoria Uce was surrounded by a loving and supportive family, while her dad, Bo, lost his parents at a young age in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Victoria only ever knew the basics of this story. Mainly, that her dad was forced to join the country's mobile youth brigade and take part in the state-sponsored violence that tore Cambodia apart. In this episode, Victoria talks to her father about how he turned away from a life of violence to live a life of compassion and gave her the kind of safety in childhood that he never had.

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Lesson 4.6 (Grades 6-12): Southeast Asian Refugees
https://asianamericanedu.org/southeast-asian-refugees.html

Lesson 5.5.2.1 (Grades 9-12): Fight for Just Immigration
https://asianamericanedu.org/fight-for-just-immigration.html

Lesson 4.6.4 (Grades 9-12): Cambodian Refugees in the United States
https://asianamericanedu.org/cambodian-refugees.html

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