Pulau Bidong Camp

Cecile Tran / 2017

Urban Planning, Community Development
Asia

This report explores a spatial discourse between the Malaysian State and Vietnamese refugees within the Pulau Bidong Camp during its existence from 1978 to 1991. It reveals how the active involvement of place shaping by the Vietnamese camp residents became a key empowerment mechanism and strong assertion of right of place.

The report investigates the Vietnamese perspective on Malaysian policies and the self-organised spaces that were made in reaction to them, considered through the lens of urban planning theory, and scrutinising the role of architecture as a tool of influence and control.

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