UK public ‘not as welcoming’ to us today, says post-war Vietnamese migrant
by Sarah Ping
May 05, 2024
3 minutes
A Vietnamese migrant who fled her home country just after the Vietnam War before reaching the UK has said the public is “not as welcoming” to migrants today.
Yen Hoang Lam, 52, a GP from Wallington, near Croydon, left Vietnam in the late 1970s by boat aged five with her mother, father and younger twin brothers.
Ms Lam, who spent five years in before moving to , told the PA news agency: “Five of us got on a
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