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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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
1995Print ISBN
9780691021157
9780691032603
eBook ISBN
9781400820993
Table of contents
- Cover
- Family Tightrope
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE Assimilation, Adaptation, and Immigrant Life
- CHAPTER TWO The Study and the Setting
- CHAPTER THREE Vietnamese Roots
- CHAPTER FOUR Patchworking: Households in the Economy
- CHAPTER FIVE The Family Tightrope: Gender Relations
- CHAPTER SIX Generation Gaps
- CHAPTER SEVEN The Changing Contours of Vietnamese American Family Life
- Bibliography
- Index
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