From Vietnam to America: A Chronicle of the Vietnamese Immigration to the United States

ISBN-13: 9780367018054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 264 str.

Gail Paradise Kelly

Opis

In late April 1975 the war that raged in Vietnam for decades came to an end as the American-backed government of South Vietnam collapsed. Out of the territories that had once been French Indochina came over 200,000 Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese refugees fleeing by plane, by boat, or on foot. Some left under U.S. government auspices; others setout on their own.This book is a chronicle of the 1975 flight of Vietnamese from their country. It traces the departure from Vietnam and the resettlement of 130,000 of these refugees in the United States and focuses on the process by which Vietnamese went from refugees to immigrants.

Spis treści

Introduction -- The Departure from Vietnam -- Leaving Vietnam -- Who Immigrated: A Profile -- From Refugee to Immigrant -- Being Processed: The Refugee Camps and Their Organization -- Being Taught about America: Education and Cultural Orientation in the Refugee Camps -- Being Sponsored and Resettled -- Into the Lower Classes -- The Vietnamese in America -- The Immigration and the Vietnamese -- Sources

O autorze

Kelly, Gail Paradise