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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 ...
Vietnamese Americans (Vietnamese: Người Mỹ gốc Việt) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. [6] They comprise a major part of all overseas Vietnamese.There are approximately 2.3 million people of Vietnamese descent residing in the United States as of 2023.
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.
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.
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.
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There are not enough people to fill bilingual Vietnamese jobs, a Tarrant County community leader said. Vietnamese-speaking employees are needed in North Texas. Here are some places to apply
The Vietnamese people (Vietnamese: người Việt , lit. ' Việt people ' or ' Việt humans ') or the Kinh people (Vietnamese: người Kinh , lit. 'Metropolitan people'), also recognized as the Viet people [67] or the Viets, are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day northern Vietnam and southern China who speak Vietnamese, the most widely spoken Austroasiatic language.