Cambodian

...1993. "Successes and Failures: Vietnamese and Cambodian Views of Adjustment in America" in Bearing Dreams, Shaping Visions: Asian American Perspectives Linda Renville, et al, eds. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press Association for Asian American Studies Series (93-100).

Afkhami, Mahnaz 1994. Women in Exile. Charlottesville, Virginia and London: University Press of Virginia.

Includes chapters on Ho Ngoc Tran of Vietnam and Samnang Wu of Cambodia.

Estacio, Neil 1992. "Trusting the Government: Institutionalized Injustice Is Still better than Back Home/" Pacific Ties: UCLA's Asian?Pacific Islander Newsmagazine. (June): 13.

Cambodian refugees in Long Beach and the Los Angeles uprisings. (Special Theme Issue).

Kelley, Barbara Russell 1991. Cambodian Childrearing Practices and Beliefs. Ed.D dissertation, Boston University.

Kulig, Judith C. 1994. "Those with Unheard Voices: The Plight of a Cambodian Refugee Woman." Journal of Community Health Nursing 11:2.

Levin, Claudia and Lawrence R. Hott 1991. Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America. Florentine Films, Santa Monica, CA.

Video documentary examining Cambodians refugees' adaptation to life in the U.S. and the role of Buddhism in helping them adjust.

Lynch, James F. 1989. Border Khmer: A Demographic Study of the Residents of Site 2, Site B, and Site 8. (Published by the Joint Voluntary Agency under a grant from the Ford Foundation.

To obtain: contact the Joint Voluntary Agency, c/oAmerican Embassy, Refugee Section, Witthayu Rd, Bangkok, 10500, Thailand (110 pp). Survey with 15,525 respondents.

Melnick, Leah 1990. "Cambodians in the Bronx and Amherst." Vietnam Generation 2:3 (88-105).

___________ 1990. "Cambodians in Western Massachusetts and Bronx, New York. Migration World 18:2 (4-9).

Robinson, Phyllis, ed. 1994. Returning: Issues of Reintegration--The Voices of Khmer Women and their Families. Amherst: Center for International Education, University of Massachusetts.

Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children 1991. Cambodia on the Brink: Report and Recommendations of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children.

Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, c/o International Rescue Committee, Inc. 386 Park Ave. S., New York, NY 10016. Phone: (212) 679-0010. Fax: (212)689-3459. Also available: Summary of Women's Commission Activities for various years.

Hmong

Video telling the story of an 18-year old Hmong girl whose parents force her to marry a 30 year old doctor.

Bliatout, Bruce Thowpaou (date). "Hmong Death Customs: Traditional and Accumulated." in Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death, and Grief. Donald P. Irish, Kathleen F. Lundquist, and Vivian Jenkins Nelson, eds. (??)

Chan, Sucheng, ed. 1994. Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Volume of narratives, life histories and autobiographies collected when students were asked to go home and interview their older relatives. Many tell the same story, detailing the journey, refugee camps, and adjustment to US life. Excellent 60 page introduction (review from Amerasia by Franklin Ng).

Chase, Richard A. 1990. Minority Elders in Minnesota. Wilder Research Center, Amhearst H. Wilder Foundation, 1295 Bandara Blvd., N Suite 210, St Paul, MI 55108. Phone: (612)647-4600.

Southeast Asians are the most vulnerable minority group; 3/4 have incomes below the poverty line and 1/4 suffer from depression, due in part to a lack of a role within their families.

Duchon, Deborah 1993. Home is Where You Make It: Hmong Refugees in Atlanta. MA Thesis, Georgia State University.

(successful adaptation of Hmong refugees in metropolitan Atlanta)

(et al) Repatriation and Integration: Can Hmong Refugees Begin to Look Homeward?

[available from the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, c/o International Rescue Committee, INC., 386 Park Ave S, New York, NY 10016. Phone: (212) 679-0010 Fax: (212) 689-3549]

In border camps in Thailand, 2/3 of Hmong refugees are women and children and many are forced to repatriate, as well as abused by Thai policemen.

Herdricks, Glenn L., et al 1986. The Hmong in Transition. Staten Island: Center for Migration Studies of New York.

Hutchison, Ray and Miles McNall 1994. "Early Marriage in a Hmong Cohort." Journal of Marriage and the Family 56:3 (579-590).

Moua, Tou Yen 1994. Hmong Values and Political Leadership as perceived by the US Hmongs. PhD Dissertation, United States International University.

Vandu, Kathryn 1991. Threads of Survival. Northville, Minn: Vandu Films.

A video of Hmong Culture in the US.

Vang, Anthony T.K. 1993. A Descriptive Study of Academically Proficient Hmong High School Girl Dropouts. PhD Dissertation, University of San Fransisco.

Vang, Chia 1990. "Why are Few Hmong Women in Higher Education?" Hmong Women Pursuing Higher Education (December).

Winland, Daphne N. 1994. "Christianity and Community: Conversion and Adaptation amng Hmong Refugee Women." Canadian Journal of Sociology. 19:1 (Winter):21-45.

Yang, May 1990. "The Education of Hmong Women." Vietnam Generation 2:3 (62-87).

Yang, Pai and Nora Murphy 1993. Hmong in the `90s: Stepping toward the Future. Homong American Partnership, St Paul Minn.

Detailed analysis of 1990 Census data in Minnesota.

Laos and Thailand

Scheer, Christopher 1995. "Thailand to Los Angeles, A Life of Debasement." Los Angeles Times, 14 August): B5.

Undocumented Thai immigrants toiling in Southern California garment sweatshops.

Van Esterick, Penny 1992. Taking Refuge: Lao Buddhists in North America." Tempe, Arizona: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University.

Vietnam

Vietnamese refugees in Missouri.

Caplan, Nathan et al 1992. "Indochinese Refugee Families and Academic Achievement." Scientific American (February): 36-42.

Chan Kwok Bun, ed. 1990. "Indochinese Refugees 15 Years Later." Southeast Asian Journal of Social Sciences. 18:2. (Special theme issue).

Chung Hoang Chung 1994. Vietnamese Students: Changing Patterns, Changing Needs. San Fransisco: Many Cultures Publications.

Epstein, Nadine 1994. "Bayou Saigon." Rural Electrification magazine, 52:10 (July):18-22.

Vietnamese immigrants constitute 28% of the population of the small town of Amelia, Louisiana.

Furuto, Sharlene Maeda (et al), ed. 1992. Social Work Practice with Asian Americans. Newbury Park, Ca: SAGE Publications.

Chapter 5: Judith Shepherd "illiustrates the values of using historical perspectives to assess the case studies of Vietnamese refugee and immigrant women.

Gold, Steven J. 1992. Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Compares Vietnamese and Soviet Jews. Gender?

Kiang, Peter Nien-chu 1990. "Southeast Asian Parent Empowerment: The Challenge of Changing Demographics in Lowell, Massachusetts." Vietnam Generation 2:3: (5-15).

Kiang, Peter, ed. 1992. Recognizing Poverty in Boston's Asian American Community. (Carlton Sagara, principal researcher). Boston: Boston Persistent Poverty Project, Boston Foundation.

Kibria, Nazli 1993. Family Tightrope: The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Philadelphia: shows how traditional family structure has been able to be adapted to new circumstances. Argues that many Vietnamese women support traditional family structures (in a modified state) because of economic issues and so that they can retain power over their children as mothers. (review from Amerasia by Hien Duc Do).

__________ 1990. "Power, Patriarchy and Gender Conflict in the Vietnamese Immigrant Community." Gender and Society 4: (9-24).

Lee, E. Mei-Hwa 1990. Vietnamese Catholics: Making Places in Baton Rouge. M.A. Thesis, Louisiana State University.

Meling, Phil and Jon Roper, eds. 1991. America, France, and Vietnam: Cultural History and History and Ideas of Conflict. Brookfield, VT: Avebury Publishing.

Includes a chapter on American representation of Vietnamese women.

Phan, Chanh Cong 1993. "The Vietrnamese Concept of the Human Soul and the Rituals of Birth and Death." Southeast Asian Asian Journal of Social Sciences, 21:2: (159-198).

Phan, Cindy Thuy 1994. Comparing the Success in Cultural Adaptation of Vietnamese Refugee Women and Men. PhD Dissertation, United States International University.

Rutledge, Paul 1992. The Vietnamese Experience in America. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.

Rather general but some good points and statistics about gender differences in: employment, education, health care and depression. Also, intra-ethnic competition and diversity into three groups: 1)those from educated, upperclass families in Vietnam; 2)urban Vietnamese, recently acculturated; and 3) "peasants" who remain as such (?) in the US.

Zhou, Min and Carl Li Bankston III 1994. "Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation: The Case of Vietnamese Youth in new Orleans." International Migration Review, 28:4 (Winter):821-845.

General Southeast Asian

Includes a chapter on the role of Southeast Asian women in building new immigrant communities.

Kiang, Peter 1992. New Roots and Voices: The Education of Southeast Asian Students at an urban Public University. Dissertation, UC Irvine.

Takaki, R. 1995. From Exiles to ImmigrantsThe Refugees from Southeast Asia (adapted by Rebecca Stefoff). New York: Chelsea House Publishers.

(text book for children)

Tenhula, John 1991. Voices From Southeast Asia: The Refugee Experience in the US. New York: Holmes and Meier.