1997
DOI: 10.2307/215658
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Vietnamese American Place Making in Northern Virginia

Abstract: Vietnamese Americans have made places for themselves in Northern Virginia by reconfiguring the geography of the suburban places they inherited, including former high-order central-place nodes. Vietnamese American residences, churches, cemetery plots, and other distinctive ethnic markers are by and large dispersed and rarely noticeable. Their retail districts, however, serve them in multiple material and symbolic ways, not unlike suburban Chinatowns.

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“…The development of new urban religious landscapes in Chicago as Islamic mosques and Hindu temples join churches and synagogues (Numrich 1997;Tillman and Emmett 1999) and the creation of a new enclave in Nashville as shopping streets go from completely Anglo to predominantly Hispanic in the space of twenty years (Chaney 2010) exhibit the dynamic quality of place. In the Virginian suburbs of Washington, D.C., Joseph Wood (1997) demonstrates how Vietnamese immigrants are slowly appropriating particular aspects of the retail and institutional landscape-shopping plazas, cemeteries, and churches-to create needed places to shop and worship while also imprinting the landscape with their own identity. Recent Nigerian immigration to Dublin has prompted a divergence in neighborhood perception between the "Little Africa" labels imposed by the outside native Irish community and the network of private social clubs, invisible to outsiders but accessible to Nigerian-Irish with a few words in Yoruban (White 2002).…”
Section: Place and Place-making Communitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The development of new urban religious landscapes in Chicago as Islamic mosques and Hindu temples join churches and synagogues (Numrich 1997;Tillman and Emmett 1999) and the creation of a new enclave in Nashville as shopping streets go from completely Anglo to predominantly Hispanic in the space of twenty years (Chaney 2010) exhibit the dynamic quality of place. In the Virginian suburbs of Washington, D.C., Joseph Wood (1997) demonstrates how Vietnamese immigrants are slowly appropriating particular aspects of the retail and institutional landscape-shopping plazas, cemeteries, and churches-to create needed places to shop and worship while also imprinting the landscape with their own identity. Recent Nigerian immigration to Dublin has prompted a divergence in neighborhood perception between the "Little Africa" labels imposed by the outside native Irish community and the network of private social clubs, invisible to outsiders but accessible to Nigerian-Irish with a few words in Yoruban (White 2002).…”
Section: Place and Place-making Communitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ethnic place-making is not simply a question of rendering colorful ethnic themes on an urban (or rural) landscape. It shapes the identities of each group (Wood 1997). Evoking the humanistic geography of Edward Relph (1976) and Anne Buttimer (1980), there is literature in environmental psychology positing a relationship between places and the identities of individuals and groups.…”
Section: Place and Place-making Communitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 opened pathways for several non-European immigrants, particularly from Asia and Latin America. The global scale economic restructuring and globalized economy facilitated by Internetbased connectivity also prompted increased demands of high-skilled professionals in the high-tech service sector industries (Li 1998(Li , 2006, whilst also creating spaces of globalized segregated communities along their socioeconomic status and professional skills (Li 1998(Li , 2006Sassen 1995;Wood 1997). The increased demands in global commodities were met by hiring highly skilled immigrants by significantly raising the numbers of nonimmigrant categories of visas, such as the L-1 and H-1B that allowed skilled professionals from different countries (Li 1998(Li , 2006Li and Park 2006:125;Min 2011) to come and work in the United States.…”
Section: Conceptual Framework and Immigrants' Decentralizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Salient examples include Cubans (Thomas 1967;Boswell 1985), Hmong (Miyares 1998), Somalis (Nadeau 2003), and Vietnamese (Wood 1997;Airriess and Clawson 2000;Hardwick and Meacham 2005). In such instances, wellstudied mechanisms come into play, such as wage/job-opportunity differentials, costs of living, and social networks comprised of friends and family.…”
Section: Refugee-resettlement Agencies As Intermediariesmentioning
confidence: 99%