Southeast Asian Women:Immigrants and Refugees
Physical and Mental Health, Domestic/Sexual Violence
compiled by Julie Shackford-Bradley
December, 1996
Table of Contents:
Physical Health
Cambodian
Braughan, David M., et al 1990. "Primary Care Needs of Cambodian Refugees." The Journal of Family Practice 30:5 (565-568).
Crow, G.K. 1988. Toward a Theory of Therapeutic Syncretism: The Southeast Asian Experience: A Study of the Cambodians' Use of Traditional and Cosmopolitan Health Systems. PhD Dissertation, University of Utah.
Frye, Barbara A. 1991. "Cultural Themes in Health-Care Decision Making among Cambodian Refugee Women." Journal of Community Health Nursing 8:1 (33-44).
Khmer Health Advocates, Inc. 1991. Children of the Mahant Dorai. Khmer health Advocates, Inc., West Hartford, Connecticut.
Video on Cambodians and alcoholism.
Kulig, Judith C. 1994. "Sexuality Beliefs among Cambodians: Implications for health care Professionals. Healthcare for Women International 15:1 (69-76).
Lenant, J.C., et al 1991. "Child Rearing Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices of Cambodian Refugees." Journal of Pediatric health Care 5:6 (Nov-Dec): 299-305.
Ong, A. 1995. "Making the Biopolitical Subject--Cambodian Immigrants, Refugee medicine, and Cultural Citizenship in California." Social Science and Medicine 40:9 (May): 1243-1257.
Hmong
Adler, S.R. 1994. "Ethnomedical Pathogenesis and Hmong Immigrants Sudden Nocturnal Deaths." Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 18:1 (March): 23-59.
Vietnamese
(??) 1994. "Factors Associated with Cervical Cancer Screening Behavior among Vietnamese Women." Journal of Community Health 19:3 (June): 189-200.
Trinh, Dzung 1987. Health Beliefs and Practices of Vietnamese Refugees in San Diego and San Jose. Dissertation, UC Irvine.
Southeast Asian
Bonacci, Mark A. 1990. The Legacy of Colonialism: Healthcare in Southeast Asia. Asia Resource Center, P.O. Box 15275, Washington DC 20003.
Exposes the deleterious conditions of multinational corporations, the spread of AIDs in Thailand, the genetic effects of Agent Orange, and other aspects of the health care systems of Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam, and their immediate needs.
Fabbri, C. 1990. "South East Asian AIDS Project." Rites Toronto Canada (October):5.
Franks, A. L., et al 1989. "Hepatitis B Virus Infection among Children Born in the United States to Southeast Asian Refugees." New England Journal of Medicine 321:9 (1301-1305).
Li, D.K., et al 1990. "Secular Change in Birthweight among Southeast Asian Immigrations to the US. American Journal of Public Health, 80:6 (685-688).
Lins, Bonnie Kim 1990. Public Health Nurses' Attitudes toward Non-English Speaking Southeast Asian Women. M.S.N. thesis, University of Florida College of Nursing.
Newman, H.W. 1991. "Nutrition Intake of Low-Income Southeast Asian Pregnant Women." Journal of American Dietetic Association 91 (July): 793-799.
Romero-Gwynn, C. "Breast-Feeding Patterns among Indochinese Immigrants in Northern California." American Journal of Deseases of Children 143 (804-808).
Tuttle, C.R., et al 1994. "Determinants of Infant Feeding Choices Among Southeast Asian Immigrants in Northern California. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 94: 3 (March): 282-286.
Weeks, J.R. and R.G. Rumbaut 1991. "Infant Mortality among Ethnic Immigrant Groups." Social Science & Medicine 33: 3 (327-337).
Study of Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians in San Diego, California.
Wewers, M.E., et al 1995. "Misclassification of Smoking Status among Southeast Asian Adult Immigrants." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 152: 6 (December): 1917-1921.
Zaharlich, Amy, et. al 1993. "Economic and Sociocultural Influence on the Fertility Transitions of Lao Refugees." in Selected Papers on Refugee Issues II, Mary Carol Hopkins and Nancy Donnelly, eds. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.
Women in General
(??) 1995. "Putting Chronic Illness in Place: Women Immigrants' Accounts of their Healthcare." Geoforum, 26:3: 247-260.
Ghaemiahmadi, S. 1992. "Attitudes toward Breastfeeding and infant feeding among Iranian, Afghan, and Southeast Asian Women in the US: Implications for Health and Nutrition Education." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 92: 3 (March): 354- .
Mental Health and Family
Cambodian
Carlson, Eve, and Rhonda Rosser-Hogan 1994. "Cross-cultural Responses to Trauma: A Study of Traumatic Experiences and Posttraumatic Symptoms in Cambodian Refugees." Journal of the American Association for Journal of Traumatic Stress 7:1 (January): 43-58.
______________________________ 1991. "Trauma Experiences, Post-traumatic Stress, Dissociation, and Depression in Cambodian Refugees." American Journal of Psychiatry 148:11 (November):1548-1551.
D'Aranzo, Carolyn Erickson 1994. "Stress in Cambodian Refugee Families." Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship 26:2 (Summer): 101-105.
_______________ 1992. "Toward a Culturally Sensitive DSM: Cultural Bereavement in Cambodian Refugees and the Treaditional Healer as Taxonomist." Journal of Nervous&Mental Diseases 180:1 (8-10).
Sack, William K., et al 1994. "The Khmer Adolescent Project: I. Epidemiologic Findings in Two Generations of Cambodian refugees." Journal of the AmericanAssociation for Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 182: 7 (July): 387-395.
Spring, Marline 1994. Cambodians and Post-Traumatic Stress. Minneapolis: Community-University Health Care Center, VIDEOTAPED INTERVIEWS.
Wilkinson, Alec 1994. "A Changed Vision of God." New Yorker, (24 January): 52-68.
Refugee women in California--survivors of Cambodia's holocaust--have become blind, defying both medicine and psychoanalysis.
Filipino
Agbayani-Siswert, Pauline 1994. "Filipino American Culture and Family: Guidelines for Practicioners. Families in Society: Journal of Contemporary Human Services. (?): 429-438.
Medina, Belen T.G. 1991. The Filipino Family: A Text with Selected Readings. Manila: University of Philippines Press (Distributed by University of Hawaii Press).
Quimpo, Susan F. 1994. "Mothers and Daughters: Pains of Endearment." Filipinas (May): 50-51.
Hmong/Mien
(??) 1991. "Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome among Hmong Immigrants--Examining the Role of the Nightmare." Journal of American Folklore, 104 : 411 (Winter): 54-71.
Moore, Laurie J and James L. Boehnlein 1991. "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, and Somatic Symptoms in U.S. Mien Patients." Journal of Nervous & Mental Diseases 179:12 (728-733).
Moore, Laurie J. 1991. "Treating Psychiatric Discorders aomng Mien Refugees from Highland Laos." Social Science & Medicine 32:9 (1029-1036).
Vietnamese
Celano, M.P. and F.B. Tyler 1991. "Behavioral Acculturation among Vietnamese Refugees in the United States." Journal of Social Psychology 131 (June): 373-385.
Dinh, Khanh T., et al 1994. "Parent-child Relationships in Vietnamese Immigrant Families." Journal of Family Psychology, 8:4 (December): 471-479.
Goodman, Deborah 1993. "The Refugee Psyche: Recovering from Tumult and Loss." SAMHSA News, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 1:3 (12-16).
Includes information on Amerasian youth and Vietnamese political prisoners.
Leong, Frederick T.L. and Mark C. Johnson 1994. "Mothers of Vietnamese Amerasians: Psychological Distress and High-Risk Factors." Asian American and Pacific Islander Journal of health 2:1 (Winter): 31-48.
General Southeast Asian
Abe, Jennifer, et al 1994. "Differential Responses to Trauma: Migration-related Discriminants of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Southeast Asian Refugees." Journal of Community Psychology, 22:2 (April): 121-135.
Anderson, J. et al 1993. "An Acculturation Scale for Southeast Asians." Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 28:3 (July): 134-141.
Beiser, Morton and Phyllis Johnson 1994. A Ten Year Study of Southeast Asian Refugees in Canada. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.
Chung, Rita Chi-Yung and Keh-Ming Lin 1993. "Help-seeking Behavior among Southeast Asian Refugees." Journal of Community Psychology, 22:2 (April): [special theme issue].
Eisenbruch, Maurice 1991. "From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to Cultural Bereavement: Diagnosis of Southeast Asian Refugees." Social Science & Medicine 33:6 (672-680).
Fox, P.G., et al 1994. "The Effects of Violence on Health and Adjustment of Southeast Asian Refugee Children: An Integrated Review." Public Health Nursing 11:3 (June): 195-201.
Ganesan, S, et al 1989. "Psychiatric Symptoms in Refugee Families from Southeast Asia--Therapeutic Challenges." American Journal of Psychotherapy 43:2 (April): 218-228.
Gerber, Lane. "Psychotherapy with Southeast Asian Refugees: Implications for Psychotherapy with Western Patients." American Journal of Psychotherapy 48:2 (Spring): 280-293.
Hays, Pamela A, ed. 1991. Mental health, Social Support, and Life Satisfaction among Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian Refugees. Contemporary Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychology: Selected papers from a Regional Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Berwyn, PA: Swets and Zeitlinger.
Kinzie, J., et al 1990. "The Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its Clinical Significance among Southeast Asian Refugees." American Journal of Psychiatry 147:7 (913-917).
Mock, Matthew Richard 1991. Life Trauma, Social Support, and Personality Characteristics: Their Impact on the Psychological Adjustment of Southeast Asians. PhD Dissertation, California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley, CA.
Mollica, Richard FD, et al 1992. "The Harvard Trauma Questionaire: Validating a Cross-Cultural Instrument for Measuring Torture, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Streess Disorder in Indochinese Refugees." Journal of Nervous & Mental Diseases 180:2 (February):111-116.
Tien, Liang 1994. "Southeast Asian Refugee Women." In Women of Color: Integrating Ethnic and Gender Identities in Psychotherapy, Lillian Comas-Diaz and Beverly Greene, eds. New York and London: Guilford Press.
Tran, T.V. 1991. "Living Arrangement and Social Adjustment among Three Ethnic Groups of Elderly Indochinese Refugees." International Journal of Aging and Human Development. 32:2 (91-102).
Domestic and Sexual Violence
Agluca, Jacqueline 1994. Domestic Violence and the Filipina in an Abusive Relationship. Seattle: Seal Press.
Anderson, MJ 1993. "Licence to Abuse: The Impact of Conditional Status on female Immigrants." Yale Law Journal 102:6 (1401-1430).
Asian American United of California Making Waves: An Anthology of Writing By and About Asian Women.
Nilda Rimote's chapter: "Cultural Approcal of Violence against women in the Pacific -Asian Community and the Cultural Defense."
Cacas, Samuel R. 1994. "The Booming Business of Modern Day `Mail Order Bride' Services." Asian Week, (14 January): 28.
Detzner, Daniel F. 1992. "Conflict in Southeast Asian Refugee Families: A LifeHistory Approach." In Qualitative Methods in Family Research, Jane Gilgun, et al, eds. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Glodava, Mila and Richard Onizuka 1994. Mail-Order Brides: Women for Sale. Fort Collins, Colorado: Alaken, Inc.
Hodgin, Deanna 1991. "`Mail-Order' Brides marry pain to get green cards." Washington Times, (April 16): E1.
McKelvey, R.S. and J.A. Webb 1995. "A Pilot Study of Abuse among Vietnamese Amerasians." Child Abuse and Neglect, 19:5 (May): 545-553.
Mulligan, Maureen 1990. "Obtaining Political Asylum: Classifying Rape as a Well-Founded Fear of Persecution on Account of Political Opinion." Boston College Third World Law Journal. 10:2 (355-380.
Narayan, Uma 1995. "Male-Order Brides: Immigrant Women, Domestic Violence, and Immigration Law." Hypatia, 10:1 (Winter): 104-120.
The Vast majority of women who are available as "mail order brides" are young Asian women from poorer Southeast Asian countries. The author suggest such immigration policy changes as allowing the (female) spouse to initiate and follow through with the immigration process. (JSB)
Nguyen-Carrington, U. 1992. "Counselling Indochinese Refugee Women Rape Survivors." Administration of Social Work 45:3 (September): 19-25.
Trevison, Catherine 1993. "Changing Sexual Assault Law and the Hmong." Indiana Law review 27 (Winter): 393-414.
Truong Thi Dieu De 1989. Vietnamese Women and Sexual Violence Centrum Gezondheidszorg Vluchtelingen (CGV). Report No 1. Refugee Health Care Center, Library and Documentation, Po.o Box 264, 2280 AG Rijswijk, The Netherlands.
Sexual violence upon Vietnamese women by Thai pirates.
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