Author Description

This monograph is a series of articles written mainly by Vietnamese academics working in Australian tertiary institutions and aimed at assisting professional people to understand Vietnamese refugees. After an introductory article on refugee settlement in Australia and a series of personal accounts of life in Vietnam after 1975 and life as a refugee, it contains a major paper on Vietnamese cultural patterns and other papers on Western influences on traditional Vietnamese culture, selected sociolinguistic aspects of the Vietnamese language and issues concerning Vietnamese refugees and the education of Vietnamese immigrant children.