From Vietnam to Amer/hs - A Chronicle of the Vietnamese Immigration to the United States

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction Part 1: The Departure from Vietnam 2. Leaving Vietnam 3. Who Immigrated: A Profile Part 2: From Refugee to Immigrant 4. Being Processed: The Refugee Camps and Their Organization 5. Being Taught about America: Education and Cultural Orientation in the Refugee Camps 6. Being Sponsored and Resettled Part 3: Into the Lower Classes 7. The Vietnamese in America 8. The Immigration and the Vietnamese

About the author

Kelly, Gail Paradise

Product details

• Authors: Gail Paradise Kelly, Kelly Gail Paradise
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780367167929
• ISBN: 978-0-367-16792-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Vietnam, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Modern warfare, c 1970 to c 1980, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Specific wars and campaigns, Refugees and political asylum, c 1955 to c 1975 (Vietnam War period), Refugees & Political Asylum, Vietnam War