Vietnamese immigrant youth and citizenship
Subtitle: how race, ethnicity, and culture shape sense of belonging
By: Diem T. Nguyen
Series: The new Americans: recent immigration and American society
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: El Paso, AR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781593325039
Subjects: Vietnamese American teenagers; Teenage immigrants; Ethnic identity; Attitudes; Citizenship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: From displacement to diaspora: background on the changing patterns of migration and adaptation of Vietnamese Americans in the United States; title: Social and cultural integration of immigrants; title: Becoming racialized : engaging with racialized discourses and meanings; title: "Becoming American:" how the Vietnamese immigrant youth differentiate and construct notions of Americanness and citizenship; title: In-between spaces: suturing identities and sense of belonging from multiple social, cultural, and national contexts; title: Summary, implications, and conclusion.