From Vietnam To America

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From Vietnam To America

Regional / International studies

Author: Gail Paradise Kelly

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 26th August 2019

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 6 Mb

ISBN: 9780429726965


Introduction

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 set out on their own.

Book Focus

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.

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