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Author Cherenfant, Sabine, author

Title How Vietnamese immigrants made America home / Sabine Cherenfant
Edition First edition
Published New York : Rosen Publishing, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (80 pages) : illustrations (some color), map, portraits
Series Coming to America: the history of immigration to the United states
Coming to America: the history of immigration to the United States.
Contents A history of Vietnam -- War and refugee crisis -- Moving East : migration to the United States -- Vietnamese-Americans and Vietnamese diaspora
Summary This book explains the reasons members of the Vietnamese community migrated to a country that conducted a great deal of violence against their people, how they survived a hostile labor market when many did not speak the language, and how they built a cultural identity that preserved their heritage while allowing them to assimilate
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes 5-8
Description based on print version record
Subject Vietnamese Americans -- History -- Juvenile literature
Refugees -- Vietnam -- History -- Juvenile literature
Refugees -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
Immigrants -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Social Topics -- Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants.
Refugees.
Vietnamese Americans.
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Juvenile literature
Vietnam -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Juvenile literature
Vietnam -- History -- Juvenile literature
Subject United States.
Vietnam.
Genre/Form History.
Juvenile works.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781508181408
1508181403