Timelines

Among other things, the newly founded associations offered legal advice and served as meeting places for sharing and processing previous experiences. In 1994, the association “Diên Hồng” was founded in Rostock in response to the pogroms in Hoyerswerda and Rostock-Lichtenhagen (see attacks in Hoyerswerda and Rostock-Lichtenhagen, 1991-1992). In Berlin, the “Reistrommel e.V.” and the “Association of Vietnamese in Berlin-Brandenburg” campaign for former migrant workers to be allowed to remain legally in the FRG. To this day, the associations are still active as meeting places and social work centers, promoting cultural understanding between Vietnamese and German cultures, Vietnamese language learning, women's rights, and fighting exclusion in society and politics, among other things.