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The federal refugee resettlement system established by the Indochinese Assistance and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975, which was active from 1975 to 1988, designated Houston as a major resettling site for Vietnamese. [4] Texas received many Vietnamese refugees in the late 1970s because it had a warm climate, an expanding economy, and a location ...
In 1989, a group of Vietnam veterans from West Texas gathered at Texas Tech University to discuss what they might do, in a positive way, about their experiences in Vietnam. [13] Their meeting was spearheaded by James Reckner, a Texas Tech military history professor and Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, [ 14 ] who had become concerned with his ...
Vietnamese-language media in Texas (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Vietnamese-American culture in Texas" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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Chapter on Tet Offensive excerpted in Robert McMahon, ed, Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War, 3d edition. Young, Marilyn B.; Buzzanco, Robert, eds. (2006). A Companion to the Vietnam War. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 528. ISBN 978-1405149839.. A collection of essays on Vietnam in the "Blackwell Companion Series.”
In addition, the city has the largest Vietnamese American population in Texas and third-largest in the United States as of 2004. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Houston also has one of the largest Chinese American , [ 3 ] Pakistani American , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and Filipino American [ 6 ] [ 7 ] populations in the United States.
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Vietnamese-Americans immigrated to the United States in different waves. The first wave of Vietnamese from just before or after the Fall of Saigon/the last day of the Vietnam War, April 30, 1975. They consisted of mostly educated, white collar public servants, senior military officers, and upper and middle class Vietnamese and their families.