Exiled to the Ancestral Land
The Resettlement, Stratification and Assimilation of the Refugees From Vietnam in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20210312 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiaorong Han (0000-0002-5544-4093, Lingnan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-46 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-5914 • E-ISSN: 1479-5922 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1479591412000228 |
| OpenAlex | W2160795698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 17 |
Based on published sources as well as information gathered through observations and interviews, this article intends to provide a general account of the adaptation of the Vietnamese refugees in China since the late 1970s. The description and analysis are focused on three aspects of the social-political life of this community, namely, its initial resettlement, its subsequent division, dispersion and stratification, and the process, problems and prospects of its assimilation. The article argues that whereas Western countries adopted the International Refugee Regime – primarily a European product – in resettling the Vietnamese refugees, China's resettlement policies reflected her experience in handling the returned overseas Chinese from Southeast Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. Although the relocation temporarily reduced all migrants to refugees, the diverse nature of the migrant community, the different local conditions in China, as well as China's official policies contributed to the reemergence of social-economic stratification among the migrants, and this was accompanied by their geographic dispersion. Though assimilation has been going on ever since they entered China, the migrants have managed to maintain their group identity, which, however, is not sustainable
China · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Relocation · Social stratification · Vietnamese · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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The Struggle Over the Chinese Community in Vietnam, 1946-1986
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |