One of the many races that migrated to the United States is the Vietnamese race. After the fall of Saigon, Vietnamese refugees have fled their homeland to seek for a better life. Now, 30 years later, they have become an industry of their own. According to the latest census, there are approximately 1.2 million Vietnamese Americans living in the United States. This makes Vietnamese Americans the fifth largest immigrant group in the United States , right after the Mexican, Filipino, Chinese, and Indian foreign-born (Lehman, 2000).
In this, he said “[the] government first must take responsibility for addressing their past failures in Indigenous affairs […]” Note the reference to ‘past’ failures. What he failed to mention during that speech was a report released by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) which monitored the progress of ‘Closing the Gap’ until June 2009. The report found that there was a clear indication that ‘Closing the Gap’ was a failure. The biggest issue the government tried to deal with is the 17-year gap of life expectancy between Aboriginals and Non-Indigenous Australians. Sadly statistics have shown since the Rudd government came to power, only 44% of Aboriginals are considered to be in good health and this has not changed since 2002.
In 1945 about 90% of Vietnam’s population was illiterate and had had no basic primary schooling. By the 1990’s, 80% of Vietnam’s entire population was literate and almost all children had the guarantee of at least five years of schooling. The French schooling system took over from the Mandarin administered system, dissolving it to create a more Western-oriented one. This first change to Vietnam’s education system resulted in the population being required to learn the French language. This change is still present today in Vietnamese culture, with many Vietnamese dialects including French terms such as ‘beaucoup’ for ‘many’ and ‘merci’ for ‘thankyou’.
hjmmigrant Chronicle is a collection of poems by Peter Skrzynecki,[3] remembering the experiences of his family as they immigrated from post-war Poland to Australia. The family, Peter Skrzynecki and his two parents, were in transit for over two years from 1949–51 (either physically travelling, or in a migrant hostel) before they were allowed to begin their new life in Australia. The book also expounds the ongoing hardships that Skrzynecki and his parents still suffer because of their journey to Australia. Immigrant Chronicle was one of the five prescribed "Physical Journeys" texts in the compulsory New South Wales HSC English syllabus, and is now a prescribed poetry text for "Area of Study: Belonging" for 2009–14. This core text is the main
The war started on November 1, in the year 1955. The war thankfully ended in April 1975. This spread through Asian grounds. Vietnam, Cambodia, and Loas were the places this that the war occurred in. Vietnam was split into parts, northern Vietnam and the Vietcong.
“Australia wants, and will welcome, new healthy citizens who are determined to become good Australians.”- Arthur Caldwell, Australian Minister for Immigration, 1945. During the years of 1947 to 1953 more than 170,000 emigrants were assisted by the Australian government to flee their country onto the safe shores of Australia. During these times Australia was extremely xenophobic and horrid towards those who were considered ‘different’ in society. We often hear on the news the biased opinions of many Australians towards migrants and how they are invading our country with their beliefs and cultures. It may have been that many Australians were and still are chauvinistic, fearing those who are different.
Over 1.4 million military personnel and an estimated 2 million civilians were killed in the war. The war ended with the defeat of South Vietnam. Ultimately Vietnam was unified. This war had a huge impact on Southeast Asia politically, socially, and economically. Southeast Asia is a sub region of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.
Some issues facing migrant labor. Have unions addressed these issues? 5/10/09 Immigrant Workers and The American Unions In the 1930's a small group of migrant workers left their homes in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and migrated to the western United States. They were without homes, voting privileges, since the 1940's there have been thousands and thousands of immigrant workers brought from foreign countries, most of them from Mexico. Most of these workers are in agriculture and they receive very little if any legal representation.
Into The Eyes of Hell: a conflict that people have forgotten GE265 Ethics ©April 28, 2011 Abstract The year is 1959; there are less than 900 U.S. advisors in the southern province of Vietnam also known as South Vietnam. The end of the Vietnam Conflict yields over 3,000,000 troops in country. At any given time there were over 500,000 troops in Vietnam until the conflict’s end in 1975. Over 7000 women served in The Vietnam Conflict. ("V i e, 2011”) Returning veterans was constantly called derogatory names, assaulted both physically and mentally, and yes they were even spat on.
Most if not all asylum seekers will be released into the Australian community. With the mark of distrust firmly branded into their minds. Dr Zachary Steel, Clinical Psychologist of the Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, University of New South Wales stated that despite all the efforts that Australia makes to detain asylum seekers, 85% of people detained in detention centres will become Australian citizens, or at least be released into the community. In the past, 97 per cent of individual applicants from Iraq and 93 per cent from Afghanistan who sought asylum without valid visas in Australia were recognized as genuine refugees. Therefore the financing of detention centres and psychological distress caused are for fruitless reasons.