The Vietnamese Immigrants
Vietnamese Coming into the United States
The third largest group of Asian immigrants is the Vietnamese. During the Vietnam War, California proposed a large anti-war idea. By 1965, many Californians proposed civil rights and free speech movement. California brought the nation into even larger anti-war protest. Soldiers used protest action in our city, San Francisco. In the early 1970s, the Vietnamese War was nearly to end. California welcomed thousands of Vietnamese refugees including Vietnamese government officials. California became the largest home for the Vietnamese refugees over the next 15 years.
There are three waves of Vietnamese immigrants coming in the United States. The first wave began from the 1975, Vietnamese Immigrants start coming into the US at the end of the Vietnam War. There were about 125,000 refugees from Saigon Vietnam. This contains military people and urban educated people who were targeted from the communist force.
The second wave was the “boat people” refugees. They were mostly rural people and Chinese immigrants who lived in persecution in Vietnam. The third wave was during the 1980s to 1990s. It contained only a few refugees, but thousands of Vietnamese Americans, who had a Vietnamese mothers and a U.S. father and the political prisoners. In the end of Vietnam War in 1975, Vietnamese immigrants’ population increased from 231,000 in 1980 to 1.3 million in 2012. It was the sixth largest foreign born population in the US. It doubled every decade.
There are three waves of Vietnamese immigrants coming in the United States. The first wave began from the 1975, Vietnamese Immigrants start coming into the US at the end of the Vietnam War. There were about 125,000 refugees from Saigon Vietnam. This contains military people and urban educated people who were targeted from the communist force.
The second wave was the “boat people” refugees. They were mostly rural people and Chinese immigrants who lived in persecution in Vietnam. The third wave was during the 1980s to 1990s. It contained only a few refugees, but thousands of Vietnamese Americans, who had a Vietnamese mothers and a U.S. father and the political prisoners. In the end of Vietnam War in 1975, Vietnamese immigrants’ population increased from 231,000 in 1980 to 1.3 million in 2012. It was the sixth largest foreign born population in the US. It doubled every decade.
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"Vietnamese Immigrants in the United States." Migrationpolicy.org. August 22, 2014. Accessed April 28, 2015. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/vietnamese-immigrants-united-state.