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Adoption
Aunt
Author_Nazli Kibria
Boredom
Bride price
Budweiser
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Ching chong
Confucianism
Distrust
Domestic violence in the United States
Economic stagnation
Economics
Employment
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Extended family
Family planning
Family support
Freeman (Colonial)
French Colonial
Gender role
General Assistance
Grandparent
His Family
Household
Housewife
Hyman
I Wish (manhwa)
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Immigration to the United States
Infidelity
John Ogbu
Kinship
Legitimacy (family law)
Maid
Medicaid
Minimum wage law
Moneylender
Moral economy
My Father
Neglect
Nuclear family
Obsolescence
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Oppression
Ostracism
Other Losses
Period of Adjustment
Persecution
Political era (policing)
Population transfer
Postmodernity
Premarital sex
Promiscuity
Prostitution
Recession
Reeducation camp
Refugee
Refugee camp
Remarriage
Right of asylum
Sexism
Small business
Social disruption
Supervisor
Tax
Unemployment
Unpaid work
Viet Minh
Vietnamese Americans
Vietnamese people
Welfare
Women in Vietnam
Product details
- ISBN 9780691021157
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In recent years the popular media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story, attributing their accomplishments to the values they learn in the traditional, stable, hierarchical confines of their family. Questioning the accuracy of such family portrayals, Nazli Kibria draws on in-depth interviews and participant observation with Vietnamese immigrants in Philadelphia to show how they construct their family lives in response to the social and economic challenges posed by migration and resettlement. To a surprising extent, the "traditional" family unit rarely exists, and its hierarchical organization has been greatly altered.
Nazli Kibria is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University.
