Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study

by Steven N. Gold

This book contains the results of a long-term ethnographic study of two ethnic communities in California - Soviet Jews and Vietnamese - the two largest groups of refugee immigrants over the past decade. Gold examines each of these communities and compares their relationships with the host culture in a variety of ways - ethnic group solidarity, use of social services, entrepreneurship, barriers to success and assimilation. He uses rich ethnographic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803937970
• ISBN13: 9780803937970
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.