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Plastic bag with a brown planet-shaped icon with the initials ICM / CIM, the logo of the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration (known today as IOM, the UN's International Organization for Migration). This was the type of bag provided to the majority of Vietnamese refugees upon their acceptance to settle in the US, and it contained their immigration documents and lung X-ray films. This specific bag belonged to Nguyễn Thị Bảo Nga, who escaped by boat from Vietnam to the Philippines (Palawan Refugee Camp) in 1987. She later settled in the US and kept this bag because of its symbolic significance.