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Linh Dang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Scholars who study Southeast Asian American (SEAA) communities are in consensus that this group's realities diverge from their Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) counterparts. In fact, nearly four decades after large-scale immigration as political refugees from Southeast Asia (SEA), this population composed of Cambodians, Hmong, Laotians,…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Educational Attainment, Asian American Students, Correlation
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Knight, Caroline – Democracy & Education, 2008
The early 1980s saw an influx of Southeast Asian refugees from various demographic groups and backgrounds to Minnesota. As teachers, the author and her colleagues regularly added children from these groups to their classrooms, receiving little explanation of a student's history or language proficiency. To counteract increasing teacher resentment…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Refugees, Hmong People, Immigrants
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Tokuyama, M. Yukie – Educational Record, 1989
The dramatic shift in immigration patterns is discussed. By the end of the 1980s Asian refugees will account for 75.2 percent and Southeast Asians will total 60 percent of immigrants. The new Asians are too often excluded from special programs and scholarships and forced to compete with native-born Asians. (MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Asian Americans, Cambodians, College Admission
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Ngo, Bic – Race, Ethnicity & Education, 2006
This article explicates the diversity within the Asian American community by focusing on Southeast and South Asian American students. Focusing on these two groups is important given their recent migration (relative to other groups) and tenuous position within Asian American research, discourse, and representation. In particular, this article…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Asian American Students, Academic Achievement, Student Diversity
Thomas, Toni D. – 1981
Materials for a workshop on vocational education for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students are gathered. An annotated outline presents the content and sequence of the workshop, which reviews the problems and suggests solutions to working with students who have a restricted understanding of the language of instruction. Issues addressed include…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cambodians, Hmong People, Immigrants
Weinstein-Shr, Gail; Lewis, Nora E. – 1989
As the large immigrant/refugee population in the United States ages, mainstream institutions, such as schools, workplaces, and social services, are increasingly challenged to meet the needs of elders. Certain themes and difficulties in acculturation emerge repeatedly, including financial insecurities, health issues, loneliness and isolation,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Literacy, Cambodians, Chinese Americans