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PDF pending restorationBoua, Chanthou – 1990
This study investigates the settlement of Cambodian adolescents in New South Wales (Australia). It looks at their participation in education and employment, the effects the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia had on those who lived through it, and the identity problems that usually occur in young people as a result of migration. According to the 1986…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Cambodian
Refugee Policy Group, Washington, DC. – 1989
This paper was written in anticipation of the International Conference on Indochinese Refugees (ICIR), held in June 1989 in Geneva (Switzerland). The ICIR was convened to respond to chronic refugee problems in the region, first addressed in the July 1979 Meeting in Geneva on the Situation of Refugees and Displaced Persons in Southeast Asia. It is…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Cambodians, Conferences, Foreign Countries
Baldwin, C. Beth – 1982
This study was conducted to determine the effects of the influx of 56,000 Indochinese refugees into Orange County, California between 1975 and 1982 and to make recommendations for integrating these people into the local labor force. In order to identify employer needs, characteristics of the refugee population, and the perceptions of both the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adults, Asian Americans, Cambodians
Download full textBerry, J. W. – 1988
This paper reviews the concepts of acculturation and adaptation to provide a framework for understanding the highly variable relationship between acculturation and mental health in refugee populations. It begins with an extended definition and discussion of the concepts of acculturation and adaptation. The characteristics of acculturating groups…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Cambodians, Laotians
Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem, Lucy, Ed.; Halper, Joel Martin, Ed. – 1989
This publication provides autobiographical essays by students originally from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, all of whom arrived in the United States as refugees between 1975 and 1982. Following an introduction is an initial essay, "Becoming a Refugee, Being a Refugee, Ceasing To Be a Refugee," by L. Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem. The student essays are…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Autobiographies, Cambodians
Ranard, Donald A. – In America: Perspectives on Refugee Settlement, 1989
A study was conducted concerning how Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, and Hmong refugees between the ages of 15 and 18 have faced the difficulties of adjusting to life in the United States. The study looked at some of the reasons behind the difficulties these youth experience, as well as their success at school, within the family, and in society.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Cambodians
Baldwin, C. Beth – 1984
The Immigrant and Refugee Planning Center conducted a survey to determine the progress of Indochinese refugee resettlement in Orange County, California, in 1983-84 and to compare it with that reported in a similar survey conducted in 1981. As in 1981, the results of interviews with employers, residents, and refugees were compiled in four critical…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adults, Attitude Change, Cambodians
