Becky Taylor is Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia, UK. Karen Akoka is an Associate Professor in Political Science, Paris Nanterre University, France, a researcher at the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique and a Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations. Marcel Berlinghoff is a senior researcher and member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrueck University, Germany Shira Havkin is an affiliated researcher at Sciences-Po CERI, France, and a fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. France: ‘Boat people’ brought by plane - Karen Akoka.- 3. Germany: ‘Refugie-surprise’: The unlikely reception of Indochinese boat-people in Germany - Marcel Berlinghoff.- 4. Britain: ‘Our most foreign refugees’: refugees from Vietnam in Britain - Becky Taylor.- 5. The Netherlands: ‘Boat people’ as changemakers in the Dutch refugee system - Julia Kleinschmidt.- 6. Israel: Asylum without refugee status: Israel’s reception of Vietnamese exiles.- 7. Bibliography.

Becky Taylor is Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia, UK. Karen Akoka is an Associate Professor in Political Science, Paris Nanterre University, France, a researcher at the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique and a Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations. Marcel Berlinghoff is a senior researcher and member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrueck University, Germany Shira Havkin is an affiliated researcher at Sciences-Po CERI, France, and a fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. France: ‘Boat people’ brought by plane - Karen Akoka.- 3. Germany: ‘Refugie-surprise’: The unlikely reception of Indochinese boat-people in Germany - Marcel Berlinghoff.- 4. Britain: ‘Our most foreign refugees’: refugees from Vietnam in Britain - Becky Taylor.- 5. The Netherlands: ‘Boat people’ as changemakers in the Dutch refugee system - Julia Kleinschmidt.- 6. Israel: Asylum without refugee status: Israel’s reception of Vietnamese exiles.- 7. Bibliography.

Becky Taylor is Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia, UK. Karen Akoka is an Associate Professor in Political Science, Paris Nanterre University, France, a researcher at the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique and a Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations. Marcel Berlinghoff is a senior researcher and member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrueck University, Germany Shira Havkin is an affiliated researcher at Sciences-Po CERI, France, and a fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. France: ‘Boat people’ brought by plane - Karen Akoka.- 3. Germany: ‘Refugie-surprise’: The unlikely reception of Indochinese boat-people in Germany - Marcel Berlinghoff.- 4. Britain: ‘Our most foreign refugees’: refugees from Vietnam in Britain - Becky Taylor.- 5. The Netherlands: ‘Boat people’ as changemakers in the Dutch refugee system - Julia Kleinschmidt.- 6. Israel: Asylum without refugee status: Israel’s reception of Vietnamese exiles.- 7. Bibliography.