This book is very readable. Kelly effectively uses illustrations and personal refugee stories to clearly paint a picture of what it must have been like to be a refugee. This book also includes a helpful bibliography and list of references. A Comparative Field Study. Refugee Communities closely examines the two largest groups of refugee immigrants to enter the United States in the past decade, Soviet Jews and Vietnamese.
Gold focuses on the complexity of practicing ethnic solidarity and assimilation simultaneously.
He concludes that it is diversity, not conformity, that defines these two groups. It also contains an impressive collection of photographs, a guide to references, and an easy to use index. The Vietnamese Experience in America. Reviewed by Jennifer Hudson, Amy Oathes, and Ambyr ODonnell. Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon.