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Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Refugee Service Center. – 1986
The resettlement experiences of a Vietnamese refugee family in an East Coast metropolitan area with a large refugee influx is studied. The report is in the form of a journal written by a family member, but is actually a composite of real experiences based on information gathered from interviews with individuals knowledgeable about refugee…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Case Studies, Diaries
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Labun, Evelyn – Journal of School Nursing, 2003
Every day nurses make practice decisions that are based on knowledge drawn from personal, cultural, and scientific sources. Nurses therefore practice from a particular perspective that involves culturally based personal, professional, and societal beliefs and values. Their practice, however, may involve clients whose beliefs and values are…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Problem Solving, Ethics, Vietnamese People
Mace-Matluck, Betty J.; Alexander-Kasparik, Rosalind; Queen, Robin M. – 1998
This book provides teachers and program administrators with information and guidelines to develop effective school programs for immigrant students with limited prior schooling. The limited information about these students is summarized, with in-depth information about the lives, backgrounds, aspirations, educational experiences, and needs of five…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Educational Background, Educational Innovation
Bresnahan, Mary I. – 1989
A study examined the trial of People v. Tien (two Vietnamese brothers named defendants in an assault case). In order to understand better the relationship between supportive speech acts and credibility, the study examined how the attorney elicited vivid testimony. One of the ways in which an attorney yields control of testimony to a witness is by…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Case Studies, Communication Research, Court Litigation
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Phan, Loan T.; Rivera, Edil Torres; Roberts-Wilbur, Janice – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2005
This article discusses the Vietnamese refugee women's identity development. As the U.S. population diversifies, it behooves all professional counselors to increase their knowledge and understanding of multicultural populations. One population that has received little attention has been Vietnamese refugee women. The authors discuss Women's Identity…
Descriptors: Females, Caseworker Approach, Asian Americans, Vietnamese People
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Tranguyen, Trangdai – Journal of Archival Organization, 2004
Anchored on the Vietnamese American Project (VAP), this essay presents the documentation of the Vietnamese American Experience through the voices of ethnic Vietnamese in Orange County, California, home to the largest concentration of this ethnic group outside Vietnam. Groundbreaking in its approach and method, VAP is an open forum that enables…
Descriptors: United States History, Vietnamese People, Ethnic Groups, Acculturation