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Family Tightrope

The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans

Bibliographic Data

ID19944737
AuthorsNazli Kibria (0000-0003-0691-0104, corresponding author)
Year1995
Pages200
Publication date1995-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFamily Tightrope (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781400820993
OpenAlexW4246520293
Open LibraryOL29005761M
ISBN9781400820993
LanguageEN
Citations received311

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

Construct (python library) · Family values · Immigration · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Unit (ring theory) · Vietnamese · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Psychology · 71.37 ethnic groups · Américains d'origine vietnamienne · Condiciones sociales · Familles américaines d'origine vietnamienne · Family · Immigranten · Social conditions · Soziale Situation · united states · Vietnamese American families · Vietnamese americans · Vietnamesen · Vietnameses americanos · Vietnamezen

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Unique citing works268
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Citation span1995 - 2025 (31)
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