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Growing Up American - How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (Paperback, New edition)
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Growing Up American - How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (Paperback, New edition)
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Vietnamese Americans form a unique segment of the new U.S.
immigrant population. Uprooted from their homeland and often thrust
into poor urban neighborhoods, these newcomers have nevertheless
managed to establish strong communities in a short space of time.
Most remarkably, their children often perform at high academic
levels despite difficult circumstances. Growing Up American tells
the story of Vietnamese children and sheds light on how they are
negotiating the difficult passage into American society. Min Zhou
and Carl Bankston draw on research and insights from many sources,
including the U.S. census, survey data, and their own observations
and in-depth interviews. Focusing on the Versailles Village enclave
in New Orleans, one of many newly established Vietnamese
communities in the United States, the authors examine the complex
skein of family, community, and school influences that shape these
children's lives. With no ties to existing ethnic communities,
Vietnamese refugees had little control over where they were settled
and no economic or social networks to plug into. Growing Up
American describes the process of building communities that were
not simply transplants but distinctive outgrowths of the
environment in which the Vietnamese found themselves. Family and
social organizations re-formed in new ways, blending economic
necessity with cultural tradition. These reconstructed communities
create a particular form of social capital that helps disadvantaged
families overcome the problems associated with poverty and
ghettoization. Outside these enclaves, Vietnamese children faced a
daunting school experience due to language difficulties, racial
inequality, deteriorating educational services, and exposure to an
often adversarial youth subculture. How have the children of
Vietnamese refugees managed to overcome these challenges? Growing
Up American offers important evidence that community solidarity,
cultural values, and a refugee sensibility have provided them with
the resources needed to get ahead in American society. Zhou and
Bankston also document the price exacted by the process of
adaptation, as the struggle to define a personal identity and to
decide what it means to be American sometimes leads children into
conflict with their tight-knit communities.
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