Dao Quang Vinh
| Interview | Mohammad A. S. Sarhangi |
| Interview language | German |
| Country of origin | Vietnam |
| Year of migration | 1983 |
| Interview length | 02:12:35 |
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Sequencing
| 1 | Introduction Dao Quang Vinh, vietnamese names | ||||
| 2 | Birth, childhood and family in Hanoi | ||||
| 2.1 | Mother tongue | ||||
| 2.2 | Childhood-memories from Hanoi | ||||
| 2.3 | Smells and sounds from childhood | ||||
| 2.4 | Members of the family | ||||
| 2.5 | Education | ||||
| 3 | Politics | ||||
| 3.1 | Political atmosphere in the 70ies and the war | ||||
| 3.2 | Father in the army, evacuations and bombardement | ||||
| 3.3 | End of war and post-war difficulties | ||||
| 3.4 | Socialist society, western culture and repressions | ||||
| 3.5 | Isolation of Vietnam and scarcity of groceries and products | ||||
| 3.6 | Development of private agriculture | ||||
| 3.7 | Improvement of the situation | ||||
| 4 | Lack of a perspective for the future | ||||
| 5 | Studies in Vietnam and working position through contacts | ||||
| 6 | Decision to travel to the GDR | ||||
| 7 | Immigration into the GDR | ||||
| 7.1 | Procedure of entry | ||||
| 7.2 | Arrival and illness | ||||
| 7.3 | In the residential home in Berlin | ||||
| 7.4 | First phase of arriving, first contacts with new society | ||||
| 7.5 | Housing situation | ||||
| 7.6 | Learning German | ||||
| 8 | The division of Germany and the wall for guest-workers | ||||
| 9 | Supporting the family at home by working in Germany | ||||
| 10 | Work | ||||
| 10.1 | First job | ||||
| 10.2 | Conflicts at work | ||||
| 10.3 | Resistance against foreman | ||||
| 10.4 | Knowledge of Russian and helping other colleagues | ||||
| 10.5 | Working shifts | ||||
| 10.6 | Part time jobs in spare time | ||||
| 10.7 | Danger of dismissal and departure to Vietnam | ||||
| 10.8 | Fear of return | ||||
| 10.9 | Surveillance by state security service | ||||
| 11 | Language barriers and contact with germans | ||||
| 12 | The fall of the wall from the point of view of guest-workers in the GDR | ||||
| 13 | Working contracts after the turnaround | ||||
| 14 | Experience to live in capitalism | ||||
| 15 | Working and earning money as the only goal | ||||
| 16 | Joblessness and selling cigarettes illegally | ||||
| 17 | Integration efforts | ||||
| 18 | Contact with germans | ||||
| 19 | Joblessness after education as a salesman | ||||
| 20 | Working in gastronomy | ||||
| 21 | Feeling of being foreign in Germany | ||||
| 22 | Conditions for guest-workers then and now | ||||
| 23 | Being ignored by Germans | ||||
| 24 | Abuse of inexperience of migrants | ||||
| 25 | Experience of violence | ||||
| 26 | Moments of pride | ||||
| 27 | Hobbies | ||||
| 28 | Dreams and wishes | ||||
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