Open AccessRefugees into Immigrants: Assessing the Adjustment of Southeast Asian Refugees in the U. S., 1975-1990
Author(s) -
K. Bruce Newbold
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
canadian studies in population
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.157
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1927-629X
pISSN - 0380-1489
DOI - 10.25336/p61w21
Subject(s) - refugee , immigration , microdata (statistics) , vietnamese , demographic economics , ethnic group , political science , educational attainment , china , geography , development economics , population , demography , sociology , economics , census , linguistics , philosophy , law
Embodying a differential set of skills, refugees experience varying obstacles and reception upon entry into their host country. Starting in 1975, the U.S. received large numbers of refugees from Southeast Asia. Although these arrivals are no longer labeled as ‘refugees’, their initial immigration status raises interesting questions, including whether or not they match the attainment of those who arrived in the U.S. at the same time. Using the 1980 and 1990 Public Use Microdata Files (PUMS), this paper traces the adaptation of post-1975 Southeast Asians within the U.S. through the lens of segmented assimilation. Refugee flows are disaggregated into Sino-Vietnamese, Ethnic-Vietnamese, Hmong, Cambodians, and Laotian identities and contrasted to Chinese immigrants.