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Title: Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian Americans

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian Americans The past is never dead. It is not even past. In the quarter century following the end of the Indochina War in 1975, one and a half million refugees and immigrants from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia arrived in the United States. Together with their nearly half a million American-born children, by the year 2000 they already represented more than one out of every six Asian Americans, adding significantly not only to the size but to the diversity of the Asian-origin population in the U.S. They are the newest Asian Americans, and the story of their migration and incorporation in America differs fundamentally from that of other Asian-origin ethnic groups. To be sure, except for persons of Japanese descent, the overwhelming majority of Asian Americans today are foreign born, reflecting the central role of contemporary immigration in the formation of these ethnic groups. But unlike the ...

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Authors: Rumbaut, Ruben G.

Editors: Pyong Gap Min,

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Volume Title: Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues

Publisher: Sage

Publisher Location: Thousand Oaks, CA

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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