Asian Refugees in America: Narratives of Escape and Adaptation

by Eleanor Herz Swent

When Eleanor Swent began teaching English as a Second Language in 1967 at a school for adults in Oakland, California, she soon learned that many of the Asian immigrants in her classes had remarkable tales to tell of struggles in their homelands and their efforts to make new lives in America. This oral history, based on interviews Swent conducted with her students over thirty years, documents the Asian immigrant experience as never before. Here...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786463392
• ISBN13: 9780786463398
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher