{"id":23394,"date":"2012-05-26T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23394"},"modified":"2012-05-26T14:43:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:43:17","slug":"left-by-the-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23394","title":{"rendered":"Left By the Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/left-by-the-ship\/film.html\" target=\"_blank\">Left By the Ship<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Lens<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\" target=\"_blank\">Public Broadcasting Service<\/a><br \/>\n2010<\/p>\n<p>Filmmakers:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emma Rossi-Landi<br \/>\nAlberto Vendemmiati<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In the 1970s and 1980s, the world was touched by the stories of Amerasian children, the offspring of U.S. military personnel stationed in Asia and the Pacific in the aftermath of World War II, and during the Korean and Vietnam wars. Many of these children were born to impoverished prostitutes who worked on the outskirts of the American military bases, and left behind by their American fathers as soon as their deployment ended.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982, the United States Congress passed the Amerasian Act to allow Amerasian children and their parents from Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, and other Asian countries, to relocate to the United States. One of the exceptions was the Philippines, where the United States military maintained active military bases into the 1990s (Japan was also left out of the legislation). Children of U.S. soldiers and Filipino citizens are not covered by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Homecoming_Act\" target=\"_blank\">Amerasian Act<\/a> \u2014 they have to be claimed by their American fathers to be permitted to claim a right to relocate or take advantage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Child_Citizenship_Act_of_2000\" target=\"_blank\">Child Citizenship Act<\/a>, which gives citizenship rights to children of American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;An estimated 50,000 Amerasians live in the Philippines today. As in other Asian countries, these mixed-race young people (especially kids of African American servicemen) often face discrimination and are ostracized. Some were abandoned as infants, and many are teased for being \u201cillegitimate\u201d children of presumed prostitutes and fathers who abandoned them. They are routinely labelled \u201cIniwan ng Barko\u201d (left by the ship)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"width=600&amp;height=350&amp;video=2213003283&amp;player=viral&amp;end=0&amp;lr_admap=in:warnings:0;in:pbs:0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/s3\/pbs.videoportal-prod.cdn\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/s3\/pbs.videoportal-prod.cdn\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"width=600&amp;height=350&amp;video=2213003283&amp;player=viral&amp;end=0&amp;lr_admap=in:warnings:0;in:pbs:0\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/left-by-the-ship\/film.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left By the Ship Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service 2010 Filmmakers: Emma Rossi-Landi Alberto Vendemmiati \u00a0In the 1970s and 1980s, the world was touched by the stories of Amerasian children, the offspring of U.S. military personnel stationed in Asia and the Pacific in the aftermath of World War II, and during the Korean and Vietnam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,125,8,394,842],"tags":[10895,10894,9849,1799,6108],"class_list":["post-23394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-videos","tag-alberto-vendemmiati","tag-emma-rossi-landi","tag-independent-lens","tag-philippines","tag-public-broadcasting-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}