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Politics, Kinship, and Ancestors: Some Diasporic Dimensions of the Vietnamese Experience in North America
No full textThis article examines some political, social, and symbolic dimensions of the Việt Kiều (overseas Vietnamese) experience in North America. On the basis of ethnographic data from Quebec (Canada) and Southern California, it seeks to understand how and at which moments in their history the experience of these Vietnamese Canadians and Americans could or could not have been considered diasporic. The article concludes that because of diverging demographic, social, and historical circumstances, the Quebec Việt Kiều ceased being a diaspora after the inception of Đồi Mối, while the post-1975 diasporic moment has seemingly continued on in Californian communities.</jats:p
Refugee Adaptation and Community Structure: The Indochinese in Quebec City, Canada
No full text This article shows how, despite differences in their economic integration, the Vietnamese, Cambodians and Loatians now living in the Quebec City area (Canada) have established, over the last ten to fifteen years, three distinct ethnic communities. It also explains how the specific structure of each community is either linked to the presence, among refugees, of relatively well-educated and economically successful individuals or to the activation of core cultural values, such as religion and sustained interpersonal relations. A limited comparison with other Indochinese communities puts into light some particulars and commonalities of the Quebec case. </jats:p
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