Non-SEARAC Publications
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Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants — A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services guide
Issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services this guide aims to help
new immigrants settle in the United States. Topics include: Your Rights
and Responsibilities as a Lawful Permanent Resident; Getting Settled in the
United States; Education and Childcare; Emergencies and Safety; Learning
About the United States; and Becoming a U.S. Citizen.
The publication is available online at: http://uscis.gov/graphics/citizenship/imm_guide.htm
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Meeting the Health Needs of Hmong in Wisconsin — summary report
This report profiles a variety of programs around the country that provide interpretation services in health care settings, and also identifies federal, state, local, and private funding sources for interpretation services.
The publication is available online as a PDF at: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/hmong/pdffiles/Hmngrprt.pdf
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Providing Language Interpretation Services in Health Care Settings:
Examples from the Field
Mara Youdelman and Jane Perkins
May 2002.
This report profiles a variety of programs around the country that provide interpretation services in health care settings, and also identifies federal, state, local, and private funding sources for interpretation services.
The publication is available online at: http://www.cmwf.org/publist/publist2.asp?CategoryID=13
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Technical Supplement to Economic Needs of Asian Americans and Pacific
Islanders in Distressed Areas: Establishing Baseline Information
Miller, Doug, Paul Ong and Doug Houston
This technical supplement provides the tables and maps upon which the
analysis included in the report for the Economic Development Administration
of the U.S. Department of Commerce, "Economic Needs of Asian Americans and
Pacific Islander in Distressed Areas was based. contains detailed
neighborhood profiles and maps of low-income APA areas in the following
MSAs: Chicago, Long Beach (Little Phnom Pen), Los Angeles (Koreatown),
Lowell, New Orleans, New York City (Chinatown), New York City (Jackson
Heights), Orange County (Little Saigon), Sacramento, Saint Paul, San
Francisco (Chinatown), Seattle, Stockton (Cambodian), Stockton (Filipino),
Hawaii Study Area, Oahu, Hawaii Study Area, Molokai and San Francisco
(Samoan).
The publication is available online as a PDF at: http://lewis.sppsr.ucla.edu/research/workingpapers/Technical_Supplement.pdf
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Economic Needs of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Distressed
Areas: Establishing Baseline Information
Ong, Paul and Doug Miller
This report provides baseline statistics needed for policy-oriented
research on disadvantaged Asian-Pacific Americans (APAs) neighborhoods. We
profile 17 poor APA neighborhoods across the United States and provide
insights from a survey of community-based organizations (CBOs). The
neighborhood profiles reveal diverse neighborhood characteristics,
including variations in economic base, size, and ethnic composition. In
spite of substantial differences, some common features are seen. Most
neighborhoods are linguistically isolated immigrant communities with low
educational attainment and low earnings. This report is the final product
from a grant made by the Economic Development Administration to the
National Coalition on Asian Pacific Americans Community Development
(NCAPACD), the Little Tokyo Service Center and UCLA's Asian American
Studies Center who contracted the Lewis Center out to conduct the survey.
The publication is available online as a PDF at: http://lewis.sppsr.ucla.edu/research/workingpapers/EDAREPORT.pdf
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Asian and Pacific Islander: Minnesota Profile
Prepared jointly by the Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans and the Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy—Minnesota Chapter, this report presents a compilation of Census 2000 demographic information for the statewide Asian and Pacific Islander (API) population. It includes multiethnic and multiracial data, as well as details on social, economic, and housing characteristics. The cover letter for the report further explains the scope and accuracy of the statistics in light of how the methods of data collection changed for the 2000 Census —in particular, how data representation, calculation ranges, and limitations were affected.
The publication is available online as a PDF at: www.state.mn.us/ebranch/capm/census/publications/report_mn%20profile/capm_report_web_4x8.5x11.pdf
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The Acculturation and Adaptation of Adolescent Vietnamese Refugees in Maryland
Prepared in March 2003 by Edison J. Trickett, Ph.D.; Dina Birman, Ph.D.; and Irena Persky, M.A., with research supported by a grant from the Maryland Office for New Americans of the Maryland Department of Human Resources, this study aims to further understanding of the acculturation and adaptation of Vietnamese adolescents in a manner comparable to prior reports of Soviet Jewish adolescents. It assesses adolescent functioning in a variety of life spheres such as the school, the family, and the peer group, as well as their educational hopes for the future.
The study sample consisted of first and second generation Vietnamese adolescents living in Prince George's County and Montgomery County, Maryland. They were recruited with the assistance of Mr. Huy Bui, currently Director of NAVASA, the National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies.
The publication is available online as a PDF at: http://www.dhr.sailorsite.net/mona/pdf/vietnam.pdf
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Immigration Policy Handbook 2002
The National Immigration Forum has released the Immigration Policy Handbook 2002, a "one-stop" resource of the most important information, trends, and analysis related to the debate over immigration policy in the United States. Immigration Policy Handbook 2002 has been revised and updated to provide the most up-to-date information on:
- Basic Immigration Facts: facts and figures on immigrants in the United States, and a basic explanation of U.S. refugee and immigration policies.
- Current Policy Issues: background information and analysis on many of the key policy issues currently under debate.
- Immigration Trends: articles on important developments related to immigrants and the economy, immigrants and their integration into American communities, and immigrants as voters.
- Immigration History: highlights of immigration history, including a summary of the cycles of nativism and a chronicle of immigration-related legislation since 1790.
New for 2002
- Making Our Immigration System More Secure;
- Terrorism and the Government's Response;
- Mexico-US Migration: A Shared Responsibility;
- Immigration Backlogs are Separating American Families;
- Immigration-Related Legislation Passed in the 106th Congress; and
- Now, As Before: Americans Say Immigrants are Vital Contributors.
Who will find this Handbook useful? Journalists, policy makers, policy analysts, researchers, advocates, legal practitioners, educators, students, and others who want to easily access detailed, timely, and essential information on immigration issues.
The Handbook costs $50 each ($35 for Forum Associates) plus $5 shipping & handling per copy.
To place an order, please contact Kari Schmidt at (202) 544-0004, ext. 23. Or mail a check for the correct amount to:
National Immigration Forum
220 I Street, NE
Suite 220
Washington, DC 20002
To find out more about becoming a Forum Associate, contact Kari Schmidt at kschmidt@immigrationforum.org.
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Autumn Cloud—From Vietnamese War Widow to American Activist
Autumn Cloud—From Vietnamese War Widow to American Activist is a newly published autobiography by Jackie Bong-Wright. From the French Colonial
period through the Vietnam War to the present, this rich, evocative memoir
describes the author's personal struggle to rebuild her life after the
devastation of the Vietnam War. Autumn Cloud is the personal story of a
woman who lived the war years amidst Saigon's political and social elite.
Her life begins in storybook fashion, but in one tragic moment her idyllic
world is blown apart.
The Honorable Charles S. Whitehouse (former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand and
Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam) states, "The story of Jackie's family is a
story of loyalties—divided loyalties, shifting loyalties, loyalties
sustained, loyalties betrayed. The wars they lived through presented them
with choices so complicated that some chose one side, some another. In
Autumn Cloud, Jackie has reached deeply into the Vietnamese soul through
countless legends, traditions, history, and the events of Vietnam as they
unfolded in the lives of her family."
For ordering information, contact:
Capital Books, Inc.
ph: 1-800-758-3756
website: www.capital-books.com
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Collection of Lao Short Stories
Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos presents 14 stories by Outhine Bounyavong in English translation alongside the Lao originals. Edited by Bounheng Inversin and Daniel Duffy, it is the first collection of Lao short stories to be published in English.
Outhine Bounyavong, who died shortly after this book was published, was one of the most prominent contemporary writers in Laos. His stories are animated with Laotian virtues of simplicity, compassion, respect for age, and love of beauty.
An introduction by Peter Koret explores the history of modern Lao literature and considers Outhine's writing within this broader context.
The book is published by the University of Washington Press.
To order, contact:
Bounheng Inversin,
6807 Ingraham Street,
Riverdale, MD 20737
Tel: 301/306-0345.
E-mail: hanumahn@tidalwave.net
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The Ghost Locust
Heather Stroud
Asia 2000 Limited Press, Hong Kong
$18.00 per copy (paperback), plus $2.50 per copy for shipping and handling
Here's what the critics have been saying:
"As Bao Vinh's masterpiece, The Sorrow of War, finally reclaimed a powerful Vietnamese voice and counterpoint to many American novels and movies on the Vietnam War, so Ghost Locust rips away their concentration camp numbers and returns the human faces of courage, love and dignity to Vietnamese refugees."
—Fred Armentrout, President of Hong Kong PEN
"Ghost Locust takes us into the world of repression and fear of Vietnam in the 1960s. It's damp, it's dark, you can almost smell the wet earth. The action then moves to 1989, with the protagonists fleeing Vietnam in an unseaworthy boat to Hong Kong and its notorious detention centers...The reality and desperation of their situation springs off the page."
—Pam Baker, Refugee Concern
"Heather Stroud's novel humanizes the Vietnam era in surprising ways...Ghost Locust explores the optimism, hope, disillusion, and danger that marked the years of reconstruction and party dominance in Vietnam...a model of mature storytelling, interweaving character and politics, custom and individual narrative."
—Peter Stambler, author of Encounters with Cold Mountain, winner of the Quarterly Review of Literature's International Poetry Competition
Ghost Locust is available from SEARAC. An order form is available.
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