Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee; Zhou, Min; Bankston, Carl L.

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“…The sociological study of the Vietnamese diaspora has painted contradictory renderings of the group's economic and social mobility. Some sociologists focus on the social capital Vietnamese groups brought to the US that facilitated their economic ascent, while others use the higher rates of poverty among southeast Asians to challenge the model minority myth (Bonilla‐Silva, 2004; Espiritu, 2006a; Zhou & Bankston, 1994, 1998). Focusing on the achievements of Vietnamese refugees locates the problem of incorporation “within the bodies and minds of the refugees rather than in the global historical conditions that produce massive displacements” (Espiritu, 2014, p. 5).…”

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The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

Kaur

Tran

2023

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This paper argues existing scholarship on Asian American communities is limited by an assumption that incorporation into the US can productively address racial and economic precarity. As an alternative, we offer "Extinguishing Asian (American) Insurgency", a theoretical framework that incorporates histories of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonial politics of incorporation into contemporary sociological analyses of Asian subject formation. Applying Du Boisian sociology alongside Frantz Fanon and Joy James, the framework adopts a global, relational analysis of Asian Americans and the US state. We demonstrate the framework's utility through two case studies: anti-colonial Sikh diasporic politics through the Gadar Party and US state efforts to tie diasporic South Vietnamese identity to an anti-communist politic. As such, we encourage the study of alternative possibilities of Asian subject formation that are extinguished by state incorporation, particularly through imperialism and military serivce. Specifically, we address sociologists who extinguish the insurgent Asian American subject in their scholarship by assuming incorporation and pro-state politics as a natural end goal of migration, or those who simply do not name the US as the institutional force extinguishing possibilities of Asian Americans' insurgency.

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The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

Kaur

Tran

2023

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“…Notwithstanding the health risks faced by immigrants, incorporation theorists agree that ties among families and extended kin and with "significant others" have meaningful effects on youth's coming-of-age trajectories, including their health (Portes and Rumbaut 2001;Zhou and Bankston 1998). While the presence of adults and opportunities for institutional health access are no guarantee of better health outcomes, these studies suggest that they often have a buffering effect for immigrant youth, which durably benefits their wellbeing and social, economic, and mental health.…”

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“…Health scholars have long examined Latinx immigrants' health relative to their U.S.-born counterparts. What is known as the "Hispanic" or "immigrant" paradox has been linked to immigrant selectivity and immigrants' culturally informed health behaviors (Boen and Hummer 2019) as well as immigrants' embeddedness in close-knit families and protective ethnic enclaves that buffers from health risks through ties that offer the material and emotional benefits of co-ethnic solidarity (Osypuk et al 2009;Zhou and Bankston 1998). More recently, scholars of social, economic, and legal stratification have argued that immigrants can experience cumulative disadvantages (Riosmena et al 2015) through differential health risks (e.g., living and work conditions, stress), a lack of resources to manage risk (e.g., income, social networks), and diminished access to healthpromoting services (e.g., public benefits, health care; Castañeda et al 2015;Suliman et al 2009;Torres and Young 2016).…”

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“Si Mis Papas Estuvieran Aquí”: Unaccompanied Youth Workers’ Emergent Frame of Reference and Health in the United States

Canizales

2022

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Relying on in-depth interviews and ethnographic data in Los Angeles, California, this study examines the health experiences of unaccompanied, undocumented Latin American-origin immigrant youth as they come of age as low-wage workers. Findings demonstrate that unaccompanied, undocumented youth undergo cumulative physical and mental health disadvantages in the United States’s secondary labor market and during critical developmental life stages while lacking the parental monitoring and guidance to navigate them. Developing comparisons between their past and present living conditions and between themselves and other youth in Los Angeles—what I refer to as an emergent frame of reference—youth workers come to perceive family disruptions, and especially separation from their parents, as the most salient factor affecting their health. While some youth ultimately resign themselves to short-term attempts to assuage illness, injury, or distress through activities like substance abuse, others pursue community connections and support groups that can sustain them long term.

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“…Compared with the first wave, the second wave was larger, arrived under more chaotic and traumatizing circumstances, and involved a more ethnically and socially diverse population. It is estimated that during these years, 400,000 Vietnamese refugees resettled in the United States, and 50 percent to 70 percent were ethnic Chinese, who overwhelmingly had low levels of education, no English skills, and little financial resources (Caplan, Choy, and Whitmore 1991;Chang 1982;Zhou and Bankston 1998). The third wave began in 1982 and subsided in the mid-1990s, when ethnic Vietnamese were again the vast majority (Trieu 2009).…”

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Disaggregating Ethnicity and National Origin: Educational Heterogeneity among Vietnamese and Chinese Americans across Immigrant Generations

Min²

2022

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Scholars often treat immigrants from the same country as a monolithic group, but intranational ethnicity is usually associated with distinctive premigration backgrounds and migration experiences and plays a role in shaping immigrant adjustment and incorporation in the host country. The authors use census data to distinguish ethnic Chinese from the Vietnamese national group to analyze educational heterogeneity across immigration generations. The results show that first-generation Chinese Vietnamese exhibit much lower levels of education than their Vietnamese counterparts, but this disparity vanishes by the 1.5 generation. The authors also find that both Vietnamese subgroups contribute to the second-generation convergence with Chinese Americans, but Chinese Vietnamese are able to overcome disadvantages more quickly and have slightly higher educational achievement than ethnic Vietnamese. Our case study illustrates how ethnicity and national origin can be disaggregated using nationally representative data and how this approach can provide unique insights into immigration studies in general.

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Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States

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The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

“Si Mis Papas Estuvieran Aquí”: Unaccompanied Youth Workers’ Emergent Frame of Reference and Health in the United States

Disaggregating Ethnicity and National Origin: Educational Heterogeneity among Vietnamese and Chinese Americans across Immigrant Generations

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