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Family Tightrope : The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans / Nazli Kibria.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691021157
  • 9781400820993
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Assimilation, Adaptation, and Immigrant Life -- CHAPTER TWO. The Study and the Setting -- CHAPTER THREE. Vietnamese Roots -- CHAPTER FOUR. Patchworking -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Family Tightrope -- CHAPTER SIX. Generation Gaps -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Changing Contours of Vietnamese American Family Life -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In recent years the popular media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story, attributing their accomplishments to the values they learn in the traditional, stable, hierarchical confines of their family. Questioning the accuracy of such family portrayals, Nazli Kibria draws on in-depth interviews and participant observation with Vietnamese immigrants in Philadelphia to show how they construct their family lives in response to the social and economic challenges posed by migration and resettlement. To a surprising extent, the "traditional" family unit rarely exists, and its hierarchical organization has been greatly altered.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781400820993

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Assimilation, Adaptation, and Immigrant Life -- CHAPTER TWO. The Study and the Setting -- CHAPTER THREE. Vietnamese Roots -- CHAPTER FOUR. Patchworking -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Family Tightrope -- CHAPTER SIX. Generation Gaps -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Changing Contours of Vietnamese American Family Life -- Bibliography -- Index

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In recent years the popular media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story, attributing their accomplishments to the values they learn in the traditional, stable, hierarchical confines of their family. Questioning the accuracy of such family portrayals, Nazli Kibria draws on in-depth interviews and participant observation with Vietnamese immigrants in Philadelphia to show how they construct their family lives in response to the social and economic challenges posed by migration and resettlement. To a surprising extent, the "traditional" family unit rarely exists, and its hierarchical organization has been greatly altered.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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