Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Vietnamese American population grew significantly after 1975, when a large wave of South Vietnamese refugees arrived in the U.S. following the end of the Vietnam War. [8] Today, over half of Vietnamese-Americans reside in California and Texas, particularly in metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, Houston, and San Jose. [9] [10]
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.
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 ...
Houston is home to the second-largest Vietnamese population in the country. We take you through their history, filled with stories about refugees who made an all-or-nothing escape from their ...
Little Saigon (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn nhỏ or Tiểu Sài Gòn) is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries. Alternate names include Little Vietnam and Little Hanoi (mainly in historically communist nations), depending on the enclave's political history.
A practice born out of a desire to participate in the democratic process at a time when ballots weren't printed in Vietnamese became a powerful organizing tool.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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.