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Smith-Hefner, Nancy J. – 1999
This book describes the immigration of tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees to the United States from their war-torn country in the early 1980s, highlighting the efforts of Khmer Americans to recreate the fabric of culture and identity in the aftermath of the Khmer holocaust. Based on long-term research among Cambodians residing in metropolitan…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Buddhism, Cambodians
Peer reviewedSmith-Hefner, Nancy J. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1993
Explores in-group variation in minority educational achievement by studying why a disproportionately high number of young Khmer women drop out of school in the United States. An ethnographic study (over 125 interviews) in metropolitan Boston (Massachusetts) demonstrates the importance of understanding cultural and social-historical influences on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Age Differences, Asian Americans
