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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 ...
Among Vietnamese American literary artists, she is the only one who writes and publishes bilingually (Vietnamese/English, both poetry and novels). She combined artistic pursuits with the full-time practice of law for 4 decades, working in major cities of the U.S., Europe, and Southeast Asia.
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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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.
Le participates in numerous charity and fund raising projects for colleges, orphanages, and charity foundations. She serves on the Board of two non-profit organizations which promote education and support social economic development projects in the third world. Le has worked to advance education and learning conditions in Vietnam.
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 ...