Download or read book The Patterns of Adaptation Among Vietnamese Refugees in a Mid sized Community written by Mau-Kuei Michael Chang and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vietnamese Americans written by Darrel Montero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As of November 1978, more than 170,000 Indochinese refugees had come to the United States after a traumatic flight from their native land, arriving with little preparation for the changes they would face. This book documents and analyzes this unique migration and, employing data from a national sample, reports on the changing socioeconomic status of the Vietnamese refugees. Dr. Montero presents and analyzes data on the refugees' employment, education, income, receipt of federal assistance, and proficiency in the English language; his model of Spontaneous International Migration (SIM) places the Vietnamese immigration experience in a broader sociohistorical context. He has found that, despite the myriad of problems the newcomers have faced, they have been adapting successfully to life in the United States, and in only three years have made remarkable social and economic progress.
Download or read book Growing Up American written by Min Zhou and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1998-01-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnamese Americans form a unique segment of the new U.S. immigrant population. Uprooted from their homeland and often thrust into poor urban neighborhoods, these newcomers have nevertheless managed to establish strong communities in a short space of time. Most remarkably, their children often perform at high academic levels despite difficult circumstances. Growing Up American tells the story of Vietnamese children and sheds light on how they are negotiating the difficult passage into American society. Min Zhou and Carl Bankston draw on research and insights from many sources, including the U.S. census, survey data, and their own observations and in-depth interviews. Focusing on the Versailles Village enclave in New Orleans, one of many newly established Vietnamese communities in the United States, the authors examine the complex skein of family, community, and school influences that shape these children's lives. With no ties to existing ethnic communities, Vietnamese refugees had little control over where they were settled and no economic or social networks to plug into. Growing Up American describes the process of building communities that were not simply transplants but distinctive outgrowths of the environment in which the Vietnamese found themselves. Family and social organizations re-formed in new ways, blending economic necessity with cultural tradition. These reconstructed communities create a particular form of social capital that helps disadvantaged families overcome the problems associated with poverty and ghettoization. Outside these enclaves, Vietnamese children faced a daunting school experience due to language difficulties, racial inequality, deteriorating educational services, and exposure to an often adversarial youth subculture. How have the children of Vietnamese refugees managed to overcome these challenges? Growing Up American offers important evidence that community solidarity, cultural values, and a refugee sensibility have provided them with the resources needed to get ahead in American society. Zhou and Bankston also document the price exacted by the process of adaptation, as the struggle to define a personal identity and to decide what it means to be American sometimes leads children into conflict with their tight-knit communities. Growing Up American is the first comprehensive study of the unique experiences of Vietnamese immigrant children. It sets the agenda for future research on second generation immigrants and their entry into American society.
Download or read book The Vietnamese Refugees in America Patterns of Socioeconomic Adaptation and Assimilation written by D. Montero and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adaptation of Vietnamese Refugees in American Society written by Huong Hoai Tran and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Sense of Fractured Lives written by Diem T. Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugee mental health is a critical global health problem. For refugees, exposure to war, violence, torture, and other forms of trauma can leave deep physical, psychological, and emotional imprints with long-term consequences on mental health. But beyond the exposures to the violence happening in their homelands, refugees’ migration journeys, resettlement, and on-going acculturation experiences also add to their mental distress. Without treatment, mental distress continues to surface to disrupt the recovery and adaptation of families and communities. Using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, this qualitative study examines the long-term consequences of exposure to trauma, resettlement and on-going acculturation stress on refugee communities’ mental health. The study focuses specifically on the Vietnamese refugee community in King County, Washington as a case study. Vietnamese refugees make up one of the largest and oldest refugee communities in the United States since the establishment of the Refugee Act of 1980. There is a sense that many Vietnamese refugees have “made it” as an acculturation story. Across major U.S. cities, we see the presence of the Vietnamese people establishing roots and rebuilding families and communities. But underneath this layer of success lies a great many untold stories of pain that have been overshadowed by the need to move forward. Many Vietnamese continue to face challenges connected to past exposure to trauma as well as on-going acculturation stress. The findings from this case study will further our understanding of the long-term impacts of exposures to trauma, migration, and acculturation on the community’s recovery and adaptation with implications for research, practice, and community education.
Download or read book A Model Struggle written by Mario Francisco Delci and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Influences on the Occupational Adaptation of Vietnamese Refugees written by Christine R. Finnan and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethnicities written by Rubén G. Rumbaut and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-09-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume probe systematically and in depth the adaptation patterns and trajectories of concrete ethnic groups. They provide a close look at this rising second generation by focusing on youth of diverse national origins—Mexican, Cuban, Nicaraguan, Filipino, Vietnamese, Haitian, Jamaican and other West Indian—coming of age in immigrant families on both coasts of the United States. Their analyses draw on the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study, the largest research project of its kind to date. Ethnicities demonstrates that, while some of the ethnic groups being created by the new immigration are in a clear upward path, moving into society's mainstream in record time, others are headed toward a path of blocked aspirations and downward mobility. The book concludes with an essay summarizing the main findings, discussing their implications, and identifying specific lessons for theory and policy.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Household Structure and Family Ideologies written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patterns of Adaptation and Survival Among Vietnamese in an Urban Setting written by Nazli Kibria and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergence of the Vietnamese American Communities written by Trang Hoàng and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southeast Asian Refugee Youth written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography contains 372 items listed in alphabetical order by author within each section. The references were gathered through computer searches and other bibliographies. The abstracts give a brief summary of the contents by concentrating on the concrete information recorded about youth rather than the theoretical frameworks or study methods. The bibliography is divided into eight sections: 1) Adaptation and Acculturation 2) Education 3) Physical and Mental Health 4) Unaccompanied Minors and Amerasian Youth 5) Courtship and Marriage 6) General Topics 7) Journalism 8) Bibliographies. It also includes an accumulated author index, but no subject index.
Download or read book Doctoral Dissertations on Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vietnamese in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
