Immigrants (Excluding Refugees and Asylees)
Admitted to the U.S. from Southeast Asia,
Fiscal Years 1952 through 2001

NOTE: All figures in this table are from the Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, fiscal years 1980 through 2000, except the following: (1) figures for fiscal year 2001 are from the INS website (www.ins.gov); (2) figures for 1978 and 1979 are from Rumbaut (2000: 182). Reliable figures for Cambodia and Vietnam for 1978 and 1979 are unavailable. These figures include Amerasians. Figures for fiscal years 1980 through 2001 have been adjusted to reflect the fact that "immigrant arrival" statistics record the number of people granted "immigrant" (or "permanent resident alien") status for the given year, and do not represent only new arrivals to the U.S. Figures in this table for the years 1980 through 2001 were derived by subtracting INS "refugee and asylee adjustment" numbers from the "immigrant" numbers.

Sources:

• Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). 1981-2001. Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (fiscal years 1980-2000). Washington, DC: Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Department of Justice.
• Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) website: www.ins.gov.
• Rumbaut, Ruben G. 2000. Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian Americans. In Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. Edited by Min Zhou and James V. Gatewood. New York, NY: New York University Press. Pp. 175-206.

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