Vietnamese Americans

Vietnamese Americans
Author: Darrel Montero
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2020-06-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000011356

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.

Refugee Workers in the Indochina Exodus, 1975-1982

Refugee Workers in the Indochina Exodus, 1975-1982
Author: Larry Clinton Thompson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2010-04-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 078645590X

The fall of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to communist armies in 1975 caused a massive outpouring of refugees from these nations. This work focuses on the refugee crisis and the American aid workers--a colorful crew of malcontents and mavericks drawn from the State Department, military, USAID, CIA, and the Peace Corps--who took on the task of helping those most impacted by the Vietnam War. Experts in Southeast Asia, its languages, cultures and people, they saved hundreds of thousands of lives. They were the very antithesis of the "Ugly American."

Immigration and America's Future

Immigration and America's Future
Author: Deborah Waller Meyers
Publisher: Migration Policy Institute and the Bertelsmann Foundation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780974281933

At a time when immigration reform has become a top legislative priority for both the Bush administration and Congress, the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) has convened the Independent Task Force on Immigration and America's Future, a bipartisan panel of leaders and policy experts, to develop information, analysis, and proposals that contribute to broader immigration debates. Partner institutions in the project with MPI are the Manhattan Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. This report presents findings and recommendations for sound policy reform in key areas where today's immigration policy and practices are faltering: the unauthorized population, immigration enforcement and national security, labor markets and the legal immigration system, and immigrant integration. The aim of these comprehensive reforms is to ensure that immigrants can continue to make critical contributions to America's success as a nation, while meeting the higher standards of security and service that the American public is demanding.

From Vietnam To America

From Vietnam To America
Author: Gail Paradise Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2019-08-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429726961

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.

Refugees from Indochina

Refugees from Indochina
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and International Law
Publisher:
Total Pages: 762
Release: 1976
Genre: Cambodian Americans
ISBN: