Work, Economics

(??) 1993. "The Decision to Work by Married Immigrant Women." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 46:4 (July): 677-690.

Abaya, Mona Lisa Y. 1992. "The Changing Face of the Filipina. Part I--The Domestic Workers." Filipinas (July):45-47.

Beson, Janet E. 1994. "Staying Alive: Economic Strategies among Immigrant Packing Plant Workers in 3 Southeast Kansas Communities." Kansas Quarterly 25:2:107-120.

Latino, Lao, and Vietnamese.

Coughlan, James E. 1992. The Diverse Asians: A Profile of Six Asian Communities in Australia. Queensland: Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations, Griffith University.

Selvakumaran Ramachandran and Ponniah Arudosothy: "A Socio-economic Profile of Malaysian Immigrants in Australia (33-54); Queenie Balabar and Eduardo D. Roca: "A Socio-Economic Profile of Filipino Communities in Austrialia, Based on 1986 Census Data" (55-84); Deborah McNamara: "An Ethnic, Demographic, and Socio-Economic Profile of the Thai Community in Australia (85-122); Komet Mangiri and James Coughlan: "A Profile of the Indonesian Community in Australia: A Preliminary Analysis of the 1986 Census Data" (155-180). Basic data, good gender breakdowns.

Greenwall, L., et al 1993. Social Ties, Wages, and Gender among Salvadoran and Filipino Immigrants in Los Angeles. Santa Monica: Rand.

Hein, Jeremy 1991. "Indochinese Refugees' Responses to Resettlement Via the Social Welfare System." In Asian Americans: Comparative and Global Perspectives, Shirley Hune, et al, eds. Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press.

Hoagland, Chris 1991. Dreams Lost, Dreams Found: Undocumented Women in the Land of Opportunity: A Survey Research project of Chinese, Filipina, and Latina Undocumented Women. San Fransisco: The Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Services, Immigrant Women's Task Force.

Kibria, N. 1994. "Household Structure and Family Ideologies: The Dynamics of Immigrant Economic Adaptation among Vietnamese Refugees." Social Problems 41 (February): 81-96.

_______. 1989. "Patterns of Vietnamese Women's Wagework in the U.S." Ethnic Groups: An International Periodical of Ethnic Studies 7 (297-323).

Louie, Miriam Ching 1992. "Immigrant Asian Women in Bay Area Garment Sweatshops." Amerasian Journal 18:1 (Winter):

Osteria, Trinidad S. 1994. Filipino Female Labor Migration to Japan: Economic Causes and Consequences. Manila: De la Salle University Press.

Pfeifer, Mark 1993. "A Tale of Two Little `Saigons': Southeast Asian Economic Development in Chicago and Philadelphia." MIddle States Geographer, 26: (115-119).

Stier, Haya 1991. "Immigrant Women Go to Work: Analysis of Immigrant Wive's Labor Supply for 6 Asian Groups." Social Science Quarterly 72:1 (March): 67-83.

Hassan, Riaz and Gerald Tan 1990. "Asian Migrants in Asutralia: A Socio-Economic Study." International Migration Review 9:1 (March): 21-45.

Breakdown of employment and economic status by gender and country. Shows a high percentage of women in service and industrial sectors.

Census Data and Analysis

United States General Accounting Office 1994. Vietnamese Amerasian Resettlement: Education, Employment, and Family Outcomes in the US.

[Can order from US General Accounting Office, PO Box 6015, Gathersburg, MD 29884-6015 , or order by phone (202 512-6000) or fax: (301) 258-4066 (first copy free)]

This is an extremely useful book for basic information on Amerasians as they have been resettled in the US. There is a good degree of interesting breakdown by Black/Vietnamese and White/Vietnamese, male and female. Female Amerasians appear to do better on the whole (job, schooling), unless they get caught up in abusive relationships or have children (!). This also shows the basic biases of the General Accounting Office in examining the success rate of resettlement through only three criteria: finding and keeping a job, learning English, and furthering one's education.

US Dept of Commerce 1993. We the American...Asians. Bureau of the Census: Economics and Statistics Administration.

[To order: contact Racial Statistics Branch, Population Division, Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC 20233].

Also very useful for students. Has breakdowns of the Southeast Asian community (in colorful and easy-to-read graphs!) by gender, ethnicity, age, etc. Good, basic information.

Policy and the Law

et al 1993. The State of Asian Pacific America: Policy Issues to the Year 2020. Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP), Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute and UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

"Meditations on the Year 2020: Policy for Women" by Elaine Kim (253-261); "Work Issues Facing Asian Americans: Labor Policy" by Paul Ong and Suzanne Hee (141-152)--includes gender breakdown on work and pay, but not by ethnicity--; and "The Case of Southeast Asian Refugees: Policy for a Community `At-Risk'" by Ngoan Le, Deputy Administrator, Division of Planning and Community Services, Illinois State Department of Public Aid (167-188).

Haines, David 1993. "Sentiment in Public Policy: The Southeast Asian Refugee Diaspora." Selected Papers on Refugee Issues II. Mary Carol Hopkins and Nancy Donnelly, eds. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.

Hein, J. 1993. States and International Migrants--The Incorporation of Indochinese Refugees in the US and France. Boulder: Westview Press.

_____. 1991. "Do `New Immigrants' become `New Minorities'? The Meaning of Ehtnic Minorit for Indochinese Refugees in the United States." Sociological Perspectives 34:1 (Spring): 61-77.

Sutter, Valeria O'Connor 1990. The Indo-Chinese Refugee Dilemma. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Turshan, Meredith, ed. 1993. Women's Lives and Public Policy: The International Experience. (??)

US Congress (year?). Refugee Protection and Resettlement Issues (101st, #192).