Southeast Asian Freedom Network

Since 2002, the Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN) has supported folks impacted by deportation.  After two decades, SEAFN has evolved into a national movement family of local organizations dedicated to the mobilization of Southeast Asian communities towards abolition. 

Our work continues to be more important as ever as we see more Southeast Asian community members face deportations.  The largest need is legal support and mutual aid for impacted families.  All donations during this time will go directly to supporting families who need to hire lawyers and plan for their familie's safety.

Move Resources Now!

As we commemorate the 50th anniversary since the Wars in Southeast Asia and the resettlement of , the Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN) invites you to join us in celebrating and preserving the narratives that have shaped our shared history. Together, we can ensure that these stories of struggle and triumph inspire future generations and amplify the voices of our community in the ongoing pursuit of justice and equity.

In the past few months, we have seen an uptick in ICE detention and deportation of Southeast Asian refugees. Our eight member organizations across the U.S. are responding to crisis calls from community members who are being detained and facing imminent removal to their "home" country.  Donations received during Give In May will go to supporting our members organizations with on the ground mutual aid, legal support and other community assistance.

Who is SEAFN?

The Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN) serves as a unique nationally based organization that would mobilize the community based organizations on the ground to lift up their work onto a national platform. Each community based organization was doing work deeply in their community but had little support from a national network that could further elevate the collective experiences of Southeast Asian folks and their communities. Through this understanding, it is our intention to create an ambitious coordinated strategy to build lasting organizing, field, and movement capacity and infrastructure with local, state, and national leaders and organizations. We want to secure economic, immigration, gender equity and dignity for our communities. Southeast Asian folks remain one of the  largest refugee communities ever settled in the United States. It is more pressing now than ever as we understand the multitude of issues that face our communities but none bigger than all the violence against and within Southeast Asian communities at this moment against the backdrop of anti-Asian hate. 

SEAFN’s efforts are led by two representatives from our member organizations, which is governed by one vote from each of the following member organizations of our movement family: 

• Asian American Resource Workshop - member-led organization committed to building grassroots power through political education, creative expression, and issue-based and neighborhood organizing.

• Hmong American Women’s Association - Organizing Southeast Asian women, Queer and youth towards Gender Justice.

• KhAAGe - Incarcerated and formerly incarcerated Southeast Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Washington state.

• Providence Youth Student Movement - Southeast Asian families, queer, and trans youth of color in Rhode Island. 

• ManForward - Southeast Asian men and masculine identified folks across the country

• Freedom, Inc. - Black, Hmong, and Khmer women, girls, queer and trans youth in Wisconsin.

• VietLead - Vietnamese and Khmer youth in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

• Transforming Generations- Provides support services to victims & survivors of gender-based violence in Hmong and Southeast Asian communities in Twin Cities, Minnesota.