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Peer reviewedBenson, Janet E. – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1990
Studies why Vietnamese and Laotian refugee households take the forms they do in a small southwestern Kansas community. Argues that extended family and other nonnuclear family households facilitate refugee adaptation. Economic conditions, labor and housing markets, and refugee legal status all influence household composition, members' roles, and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Asian Americans, Community Role
