A Little Burma in Fort Wayne
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Date of publication
Maio 2007
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ISBN / Resource ID
OBL:58404
Burmese residents of a US city still find it hard to escape the politics of their homeland...
"Than Myint arrived in the “land of opportunities” as a refugee nine years ago, together with her husband and children. A native of Rangoon, Than Myint now lives in Fort Wayne, a city of some 200,000 people in the US state of Indiana. Now in her late 50s, she has learned how to survive and lead a satisfactory life in the US—the kind of existence she would never have been able to enjoy in Burma...
