Refugees as immigrants : Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese in America / edited by David W. Haines.
- Title
- Refugees as immigrants : Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese in America / edited by David W. Haines.
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- Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Littlefield, c1989.
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- xii, 198 p. ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with access to an important body of information taken from surveys on the initial adaptation of South East Asian refugees to the United States. The material, devided into eight chapters with numerous tables, is an extension of the findings presented at a panel on the experiences of South East Asian refugees, held in May 1986 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The book, according to the editor, serves as an introduction to a specific kind of research on the adaptation of these refugees as one recent set of immigrants to the United States. The introductory chapter gives some general characteristics of the immigrant population, the contexts of refugee adaptation, and an overview of research on South East Asian refugees. Chapter 2 describes the annual surveys sponsored by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and its predecessors, especially those between 1981 and 1985. Chapter 3, entitled 'Differential reference group assimilation among Vietnamese refugees', reports the findings of a three-year panel study of Vietnamese refugees conducted from 1978 to 1981 in Northern California and the central Gulf Coast. Two other chapters deal with the period 1975-1979, concentrating on adaptation within specific areas of the United States. A separate chapter describes a survey of Indo-Chinese refugees in San Diego, California, between 1975 and 1981. Another survey concentrates on the general pattern of refugee achievement, the socio-cultural basis for the economic and educational success of South East Asian refugees. The last chapter gives the result of a comprehensive longitudinal study by the Indochinese Health and Adaptation Research Project (IHARP) in San Diego, California. It encompasses the major 'waves' from 1975 to 1983 and all of the main ethnocultural groups of South East Asian refugees in the United States. It includes sections on English proficiency, occupational adaptation, economic adaptation, health status, psychological adaptation, economic self-sufficiency, education, fertility and adaptation, and depression and adaptation.
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- Contents
- National surveys of Southeast Aisian refugees : Methods, findings, issues / Linda W. Gordon -- Differential reference group assimilation among Vietnamese refugees / Alden E. Roberts and Paul D. Star -- Vietnamese in America : The adaptaion of the 1975-1979 arrivals / Bruce B. Dunning -- Personal, social, and economic adaptaion : 1975-1979 arrivals inIllinois / Young Yun Kim -- The Indochinese refugee experience : The case of San Diego / Paul J. Strand -- The socio-cultural basis for the economic and educational success of Southeast Asian refugees (1978-1982 arrivals) / John K. Whitmore, Marcella Trautmann, and Nathan Caplan -- Portraits, patterns, and predictors of the refugee adaptaiton process : Results and reflections from the IHARP panel study / Ruben G. Rumbaut.
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- Harvard Library
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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