Vietnamese Experience in America

Rutledge, Paul James

ISBN 10: 0253207118 / ISBN 13: 9780253207111

Published by Indiana University Press, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vietnamese Experience in America
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253207118
• ISBN 13: 9780253207111
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This concise interpretation of the Vietnamese experience in America begins with the fall of Saigon in 1975, when enormous waves of refugees fled Vietnam. It graphically details their flight to asylum countries in Asia and then to the United States. Based in part on firsthand interviews, the book recounts vivid stories of the horror of getting out of Vietnam and the difficulties of starting over in a new country. It emphasizes the resettlement process in the United States, from the policies of the U.S. government to aspects of community acceptance and conflict, and describes Vietnamese culture and the changes it has undergone in the process of becoming a new Vietnamese-American culture. Among the topics addressed are the arrival of the boat people, the orderly departure program, Amerasians, and the integration and adjustment of refugees to American society. The book concludes with a portrait of contemporary Vietnamese-American society and the outlook for its future.

From the Back Cover

The rhetoric of commitment to world peace and human freedom espoused by world leaders notwithstanding, there is a growing number of dispossessed people in the world who have been, and are being, forced as a result of human cruelty and unconcern to seek refuge outside their country of birth.