This ethnography, based on a five-year field study, presents a holistic view of a nearly invisible ethnic minority in the urban Midwest, Cambodian refugees. Hopkins begins with a brief look at Cambodian history and the reign which led these farmers to flee their homeland, and then presents an intimate portrait of ordinary family life and also of Buddhist ceremonial life. The book details their struggles to adjust in the face of the many barriers presented by American urban life, such as poverty, dangerous neighborhoods, and unemployment, and also by the conflict between their particular needs and American institutions such as schools, health care, law, and even the agencies intended to help them.
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"Cambodian Americans are not ordinary immigrants. First caught up in Vietnam's war in Southeast Asia, then ravaged by the maniacal policies of Pol Pot and his young minions, who tried and nearly succeeded in eliminating the middle class from Cambodian society, those who finally made it to the US bear unique scars and have many special problems and needs. Although focused primarily on the experiences of Cambodian refugees in one American city, this book offers sharp insights into their plight, their difficulties in adapting to new environs, and, as the subtitle of the final chapter states, the struggles they have 'maintaining traditions [and] transcending barriers.'...Hopkins achieves her double goal of providing a descriptive ethnography of Cambodian refugees in 'Middle City' and a foundation for a long-term study of social change."-Choice
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Based on five years of intensive fieldwork, this study presents an ethnography of a Cambodian community in the urban Midwest, exploring the difficulties of refugees and immigrants in a new culture as well as the urban crisis in this country.
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The source for refugee issues.,
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This review is from: Braving a New World: Cambodian (Khmer) Refugees in an American City (Contemporary Urban Studies) (Hardcover)
If you read only one book on Cambodian refugees, this should be it. Ethnography at its best
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The 1990s may be the decade of refugees. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Khmer Rouge, New Year, Pol Pot, Phnom Penh, Southeast Asian, Hillside Church, Angkor Wat, Sam-Ang Sam, Long Beach, May Ebihara, Theravada Buddhism, Third World New!
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The 1990s may be the decade of refugees. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Khmer Rouge, New Year, Pol Pot, Phnom Penh, Southeast Asian, Hillside Church, Angkor Wat, Sam-Ang Sam, Long Beach, May Ebihara, Theravada Buddhism, Third World New!
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- Refugees in the United States: A Reference Handbook by David W. Haines in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reconstructing Lives Recapturi by Linda A. Camino on page 14, and Back Matter
- Many Sisters: Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective by Carolyn Jean Matthiasson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mental Health of Immigrants and Refugees by Wayne H. Holtzman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Refugees as Immigrants by David W. Haines in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Khmer American: Identity and Moral Education in a Diasporic Community by Nancy J. Smith-Hefner in Back Matter
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