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Soldavini, Irene. "Identity in Vietnamese diasporic cinema." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2010. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28926/.
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French and American cinema has portrayed Viet Nam and the Vietnamese in narratives which, broadly-speaking, are reflective of French and American ideologies. The Vietnamese, in these productions, have generally been presented as the object, and not as the subject. However, since the 1980s, an interesting and significant cinematic counter-narrative to the Western idea of Viet Nam has been constructed. This is because the Vietnamese diaspora in France and in the United States has started making films about its own experiences of French colonial rule, the Vietnamese-American conflict, the Vietnamese Communist regime, exilic journeys, contemporary Viet Nam, and the generational conflicts among the Vietnamese diaspora. The identities of the diasporic Vietnamese- particularly the younger generations- have, inevitably, been strongly shaped by these themes, but, at the same time, are also clearly influenced by the culture and values of the new country. The thesis demonstrates how diasporic Vietnamese film makers construct narratives which clearly express hybridized identity: their output presents both aspects of a traditional Western discourse and, significantly, elements not seen in American and French productions.
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Roberts, Emily Vaughan. "Identity and the colonial encounter : the French Indochinese novel in the twentieth century." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326845.
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Albertson, W. Cory. "Survival Feminists: Identifying War’s Impact on the Roles of Vietnamese Refugee Women." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_theses/24.
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Although the Vietnam War has long passed, it still defines the lives of many Vietnamese refugee women who endured its aftermath. This thesis examines how war and the refugee process has shaped the memories and changed the roles of Vietnamese refugee women age 55 and older. Based on 10 life history interviews with Vietnamese women living in Atlanta, this study finds they structured their narratives by awarding the period after the Vietnam War with the most prominence. Also, the research shows the greatest amount of role change and role strain occurred during this time. With the absence of their husbands in the war’s aftermath, the women experienced great familial and financial instability, forcing them to add the role of head of the household. I argue that during this period, they exhibited resiliency, shrewdness, and entrepreneurial spirit on a familial scale—a culmination of events I define as survival feminism.
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Le, Thi Thuy Chinh. "A grounded theory study on how Vietnamese higher education teachers of English as a Foreign Language construct their professional identities." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2021. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2488.
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Teacher identity has become a topic of considerable research interest for at least two decades. Realising that teachers are more than technicians instructing through evidence based methodologies, researchers have investigated the importance of identity as a critical factor in the making and performance of a teacher. The term ‘teacher’ in this research has covered a range of professionals from early-childhood practitioners to university lecturers. Among these, attention has also been paid to teachers’ subject specialisms and their educational and geographical contexts.
The research reported in this thesis focuses on a distinctive cohort: Vietnamese nationals who are teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in that country’s rapidly developing universities. The burgeoning research literature examining the professional identity of higher education (HE) language teachers more generally acknowledges that teacher professional identity is a fundamental aspect in understanding how HE teachers adjust to a variety of simultaneously occurring challenges and changes, and the decisions that they make with regard to their professional career. As yet, there is a relative absence of studies examining the identity of HE teachers in Vietnam, and specifically, EFL teachers. This thesis reports on a study that examined how Vietnamese teachers of EFL constructed their professional identities in the rapidly changing HE context, situated within a highly globalised Vietnam. In response to global impacts on their economy, National Government policies have made English the most important foreign language, and virtually mandatory in university study, to the extent that it is now regarded as a passport to professional employment. At the same time, government policies have also determined that Vietnamese universities compete in the global higher education system. Both sets of forces have led to considerable changes to the professional lives and identities of Vietnamese HE teachers of EFL.
This project employed grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1990) to investigate how Vietnamese HE Teachers of EFL constructed their identities in this current environment. A purposive, theoretical sample of 16 EFL lecturers were interviewed across four iterative cycles; specifically, participants were interviewed once in a group of four teachers. After each cycle of interviews, data were transcribed, and grounded theory coding processes conducted. Data analysis also involved constant comparison and constant interrogation. From open coding, thirteen categories emerged; these were refined into four main categories which were then classified into two major categories: (i) Vietnamese otherwise referred to as local and (ii) global. The core outcome of the current research was a grounded theory: that these teachers see themselves as conflicted, glocalised, Vietnamese higher education teachers of English as a Foreign Language.
The theory and related findings shed light on how Vietnamese HE teachers of EFL have constructed their identities in the current climate. As well as significance for lecturers in Vietnam, the outcomes have significance for lecturers in non-native English-speaking countries as they go about their role expectations and respond to demands within increasingly globalised university systems. There are implications for university leadership, and for educational policymakers in HE contexts as well, especially in developing countries seeking to integrate English as the language of their globalised economies and educational systems.
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Dang, Dacchi. "The Artist as Explorer: How Artists from the Vietnamese Diaspora Explore Notions of Home." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366661.
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My personal experiences as a refugee inform how I see the multiple geographical and social landscapes of Australia and Vietnam, and how I mediate a new sense of home from between these diverse experiences. In turn, this provides new knowledge and understanding of the physical and cultural terrain of both countries. Within my studio work I have used this approach to create or reinvent layered landscapes through my personal experiences and memories in order to explore how a contingent, illusive/elusive ‘home’, that has also performed the role of a mythical symbol of refuge in the Vietnamese diaspora, has been inexorably linked to identity and belonging.
In my written work undertaken as part of the process of this candidature I have also examined the ways in which narratives of personal journeys within the diaspora experience have been described in ways that have avoided the usual negative associations of ‘refugee status’, and that have instead been undertaken via a more positive approach to interpreting that role as akin to that of the ‘explorer’.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
Arts, Education and Law
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Deane, Alexander, and n/a. "Nationalism in the Aims and Motivations of the Vietnamese Communist Movement." Griffith University. School of Arts and Education, 2001. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20051125.095630.
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The Vietnamese people have always harboured an extraordinarily strong patriotic drive. But the government formed by Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) after the Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) on the 2nd September 1945, the group that was to represent majority Vietnamese opinion until and after 1975, was spearheaded by the Vietminh (League for Vietnam's Independence) - a movement that did not define itself as Nationalist, but rather as an expressly Communist group. When the people of Vietnam looked for leadership, this was the obvious group to choose - the only movement prepared and willing to step in (other, more nationalist resistance groups had prematurely flourished and failed, as shall be discussed). In the Vietnam that found itself suddenly free at the close of the Second World War, no other lobby was ready, no group presented itself nationally as the Communists were and did. The Liberation Army that seized control of town after town was the military arm of the Viet Minh, formed in 1944 under Vo Nguyen Giap (b. 1912), an element of a movement that published its manifesto in February 1930, that had begun preparation and ideological training in the late 1920's in Guangzhou under Ho Chi Minh. Given the long preparation carried out by the Vietminh, the progression to the declaration of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam as a Communist nation with Ho at its head was a natural one. Whilst that development seems logical given the conditions of the day, the manner in which those conditions were reached (or manipulated) has been the subject of intense debate. Was that natural progression one in which the ideologists of Communist revolution 'captured' the Nationalist movement, exploited a nationalistic fervour to produce the desired revolt, using the front of the Viet Minh to blend their esoteric dogmas with the more easily understood nationalist cause of resistance? This is a perception held by many modern historians - that, in effect, Communists are the parasites of the modernization process. This attitude was and is encouraged by examination of advice given to Asian revolutionaries by their Soviet counterparts; Grigori Zinoviev (1833-1936) - later to die by Stalin's order - argued in 1922 that Communists should co-operate with the rising nationalists in Asia, gain the leadership of their movement, and then cast aside the genuine national leaders. For by itself, the tiny Indochina Communist Party could never have hoped to attract the support of politically engaged Vietnamese, let alone the hearts and minds of the nation at large. This is the essence of the currently accepted analysis of the revolutionary Vietnamese setting - that the Communist lobby exploited a majority furious with the abuses of French rule, sliding Communism into a dominant role in Vietnamese life. The majority of people had not fought for a communist government, but to be rid of the colonial occupying power. Such a perception, as shall be discussed, is representative of the Western reading of the whole Southeast Asian region of the day. The Vietnamese people were accustomed to the use of violence to protect their independence; perennial opposition to expansionist China meant that few peoples in Asia had been compelled to fight longer and harder to retain their identity as a separate and independent state than the Vietnamese. Whilst the ability and commitment of the Vietcong in resistance to outside power has been recognised, the strong sense of Vietnamese identity in and of itself has never really been acknowledged beyond the most simplistic of terms by external observers, perhaps because of the difficulty of comprehending how such an emotion can form when looking at the odd shape of the nation on a map. Such a lack of awareness allows supposed Vietnam specialists to assert that the dominant Vietnamese self-assessment is the extent to which the country is not Chinese (and, to a lesser extent, not French) rather than entering into a more significant analysis of how a national identity formed: how, whilst certainly influenced by feelings of encirclement and domination, Vietnam also developed a separate, distinct sense of self. This, whilst a sense that has only relatively recently manifested itself in territorial demands, is a longstanding emotion and sense, in and of itself. Given an understanding of that sense or merely an awareness of its existence, the willingness of the Vietnamese to combat the most powerful nation on Earth, though certainly impressive, needs little explanation; this work has attempted to explore a more difficult question - why they chose the dogma that served them. The idea that the majority of the Vietnamese people had not fought for a communist government, but to be rid of the colonial occupying power is in truth the presentation of a false dichotomy. The fact that a group within a broad movement participates for different reasons from another group does not necessarily imply exploitation or pretense. Neither does the fact that one has a strong political ideology such as socialism forbid the possession of any other political inclination, such as patriotism. The concept of a socialist exploitation of Vietnamese nationalism will be opposed here: a discussion of the disputed importance of nationalism to the Vietnamese Communist movement in resistance, and of Communism to the nationalist movement, will form the subject of this essay. The unity of Vietnam under Communist government in 1975 seems a fitting end to the period to be considered. Much of interest - the politics behind partition, or the Communist-led conduct of war with America, for example - can be considered only briefly; fortunately, these are issues considered in great depth elsewhere. The central issue to this work shall be the development of the Communist movement in French Indochina, and the thesis herein shall be that nationalism and Marxist-Leninism occupied a symbiotic relationship in the motivation of the Communist movement and its chief practitioners in the nation once again known as Vietnam.
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Deane, Alexander. "Nationalism in the Aims and Motivations of the Vietnamese Communist Movement." Thesis, Griffith University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365898.
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The Vietnamese people have always harboured an extraordinarily strong patriotic drive. But the government formed by Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) after the Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) on the 2nd September 1945, the group that was to represent majority Vietnamese opinion until and after 1975, was spearheaded by the Vietminh (League for Vietnam's Independence) - a movement that did not define itself as Nationalist, but rather as an expressly Communist group. When the people of Vietnam looked for leadership, this was the obvious group to choose - the only movement prepared and willing to step in (other, more nationalist resistance groups had prematurely flourished and failed, as shall be discussed). In the Vietnam that found itself suddenly free at the close of the Second World War, no other lobby was ready, no group presented itself nationally as the Communists were and did. The Liberation Army that seized control of town after town was the military arm of the Viet Minh, formed in 1944 under Vo Nguyen Giap (b. 1912), an element of a movement that published its manifesto in February 1930, that had begun preparation and ideological training in the late 1920's in Guangzhou under Ho Chi Minh. Given the long preparation carried out by the Vietminh, the progression to the declaration of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam as a Communist nation with Ho at its head was a natural one. Whilst that development seems logical given the conditions of the day, the manner in which those conditions were reached (or manipulated) has been the subject of intense debate. Was that natural progression one in which the ideologists of Communist revolution 'captured' the Nationalist movement, exploited a nationalistic fervour to produce the desired revolt, using the front of the Viet Minh to blend their esoteric dogmas with the more easily understood nationalist cause of resistance? This is a perception held by many modern historians - that, in effect, Communists are the parasites of the modernization process. This attitude was and is encouraged by examination of advice given to Asian revolutionaries by their Soviet counterparts; Grigori Zinoviev (1833-1936) - later to die by Stalin's order - argued in 1922 that Communists should co-operate with the rising nationalists in Asia, gain the leadership of their movement, and then cast aside the genuine national leaders. For by itself, the tiny Indochina Communist Party could never have hoped to attract the support of politically engaged Vietnamese, let alone the hearts and minds of the nation at large. This is the essence of the currently accepted analysis of the revolutionary Vietnamese setting - that the Communist lobby exploited a majority furious with the abuses of French rule, sliding Communism into a dominant role in Vietnamese life. The majority of people had not fought for a communist government, but to be rid of the colonial occupying power. Such a perception, as shall be discussed, is representative of the Western reading of the whole Southeast Asian region of the day. The Vietnamese people were accustomed to the use of violence to protect their independence; perennial opposition to expansionist China meant that few peoples in Asia had been compelled to fight longer and harder to retain their identity as a separate and independent state than the Vietnamese. Whilst the ability and commitment of the Vietcong in resistance to outside power has been recognised, the strong sense of Vietnamese identity in and of itself has never really been acknowledged beyond the most simplistic of terms by external observers, perhaps because of the difficulty of comprehending how such an emotion can form when looking at the odd shape of the nation on a map. Such a lack of awareness allows supposed Vietnam specialists to assert that the dominant Vietnamese self-assessment is the extent to which the country is not Chinese (and, to a lesser extent, not French) rather than entering into a more significant analysis of how a national identity formed: how, whilst certainly influenced by feelings of encirclement and domination, Vietnam also developed a separate, distinct sense of self. This, whilst a sense that has only relatively recently manifested itself in territorial demands, is a longstanding emotion and sense, in and of itself. Given an understanding of that sense or merely an awareness of its existence, the willingness of the Vietnamese to combat the most powerful nation on Earth, though certainly impressive, needs little explanation; this work has attempted to explore a more difficult question - why they chose the dogma that served them. The idea that the majority of the Vietnamese people had not fought for a communist government, but to be rid of the colonial occupying power is in truth the presentation of a false dichotomy. The fact that a group within a broad movement participates for different reasons from another group does not necessarily imply exploitation or pretense. Neither does the fact that one has a strong political ideology such as socialism forbid the possession of any other political inclination, such as patriotism. The concept of a socialist exploitation of Vietnamese nationalism will be opposed here: a discussion of the disputed importance of nationalism to the Vietnamese Communist movement in resistance, and of Communism to the nationalist movement, will form the subject of this essay. The unity of Vietnam under Communist government in 1975 seems a fitting end to the period to be considered. Much of interest - the politics behind partition, or the Communist-led conduct of war with America, for example - can be considered only briefly; fortunately, these are issues considered in great depth elsewhere. The central issue to this work shall be the development of the Communist movement in French Indochina, and the thesis herein shall be that nationalism and Marxist-Leninism occupied a symbiotic relationship in the motivation of the Communist movement and its chief practitioners in the nation once again known as Vietnam.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Arts
Griffith Business School
Faculty of International Business and Politics
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Schwartz, Gwendolyn Gray. "Vietnamese Students in Mainstream Composition: An Ethnographic Study of Academic Identities in Generation 1.5 Students Who Cross Over." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194684.
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In this study, Gwen Gray Schwartz argues that students exhibit academic identities that do not always match their instructors' expectations for them and assumptions about them, which creates problems when second language writers enter mainstream composition classes. Using ethnographic methods, she studied three Vietnamese immigrant students from Generation 1.5 who placed into mainstream composition at a large university in the Southwest and found that while each student struggled in some ways to meet the expectations of mainstream composition, their academic identities and notions of success played a large role in how they engaged in or disassociated from the class activities and assignments. Schwartz analyzed the students' writing, and through extensive conversations with them and their mainstream composition instructors discovered that Generation 1.5 students who cross over into mainstream classes have academic identities that are complicated by their status as cross-over students--they juggle multiple languages, cultures, and school systems, all while writing in English while continuing to learn English. And while mainstream instructors do not know how to meet these students' needs, their numbers are increasing steadily across the country. Schwartz begins by complicating the term "Generation 1.5" and "ESL student" and suggests a new term, "cross-over student," to describe those students in Generation 1.5 who place into mainstream composition. Then she describes the term "academic identity" as a lens through which to examine these students' experiences in mainstream composition and their notions of success, which often are quite different from their mainstream instructors'. After extensive analysis of each student's writing, she offers solutions to the placement dilemma this group presents and provides concrete ways for mainstream instructors to better meet the needs of this student population.
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Do, Tom Hong. "Negotiated Identities of Second-Generation Vietnamese Heritage Speakers: Implications for the Multilingual Composition Classroom." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/581279.
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Grounded in interdisciplinary scholarship to include rhetoric and composition, applied linguistics, and heritage languages, my dissertation, Negotiated Identities of Second-Generation Vietnamese Heritage Speakers: Implications for the Multilingual Composition Classroom, is a qualitative study that explores how Vietnamese heritage speakers negotiate multiple identities in different social contexts. I define heritage speakers as asymmetrical bilinguals who were raised in a non-English speaking household but whose dominant language is now English. While findings from this study reveal that heritage speakers struggle to claim a linguistic identity because of discrimination from members of different Vietnamese communities, they nonetheless—through reflexive and interactive positioning—resist these communities' discriminatory practices by constructing and negotiating multiple identities that enable them to reimagine themselves as legitimate members of an imagined Vietnamese community. By focusing on speakers' negotiated identities, this dissertation departs from the traditional emphasis in heritage language and composition studies that equate language proficiency with cultural identity. Instead, it calls for a more nuanced understanding of identity formation that not only engages speakers' multiple spheres of belonging but also informs current pedagogical practices that seek to incorporate speakers' heritage languages as linguistic resources in the composition classroom.
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[Verfasser], Trần Tịnh Vy, and Jörg Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Engelbert. "Memory and Identity in the Works of Vietnamese authors living in Germany / Trần Tịnh Vy ; Betreuer: Jörg Thomas Engelbert." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1218688386/34.
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Yang, Yung-Mei. "Acculturation and health outcomes among Vietnamese immigrant women in Taiwan." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/20647/1/Yung-Mei_Yang_Thesis.pdf.
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Background Recently, Taiwan has been faced with the migration of numbers of women from Southeast Asian (SEA) countries. It was estimated that the aggregate number of SEA wives in Taiwan was more than 131,000 in 2007 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2006).These women are often colloquially called, “foreign brides” or “alien brides”; most of them are seen as commodities of the marriage trade, whose marriages are arranged by marriage brokers. Some women can be regarded as being sold for profit by their families. These young Vietnamese immigrant women come to Taiwan alone, often with a single suitcase, and are culturally and geographically distinct from Taiwanese peoples; the changes in culture, interpersonal relationships, personal roles, language, value systems and attitudes exert many negative impacts on their health, so greater levels of acculturation stress can be expected. This particular group of immigrant women are highly susceptible and vulnerable to health problems, due to language barriers, cultural conflicts, social and interpersonal isolation, and lack of support systems. The aims of this study were to examine the relationships between acculturation and immigrantspecific distress and health outcomes among Vietnamese transnational married women in Taiwan. This study focuses on Vietnamese intermarriage immigrants, the largest immigrant group in the period from1994 through to 2007.
Methodology The quantitative study was divided into two phases: the first was a pilot study and the second the main study. This study was conducted in a communitybased health centre in the south of Taiwan, targeting Taiwanese households with Vietnamese wives, including the Tanam, Kaohsiung, and Pentong areas. This involved convenience sampling with participants drawn from registration records at the Public Health Centre of Kaohsiung and used the snowball technique to recruit 213 participants. The instruments included the following measures: (1) Socio-demographic information (2) Acculturation Scale (3) Acculturative Distress Scale, and (4) HRQOL. Questions related to immigrant women’s acculturation level and health status were modified. Quantitative data was coded and entered into the SPSS and SAS program for statistical analysis. The data analysis process involved descriptive, bivariate, multivariate multiple regression, and classification and regression trees (CART). Results Six hypotheses of this study were validated. Demographic data was presented and it revealed that there are statically significant differences between levels of acculturation and years of residency in Taiwan, number of children, marital status, education, religion of spouse, employment status of spouse and Chinese ethnic background by Pearson correlation and Kendall’s Tau-b or Spearman test. The correlations of daily activity, language usage, social interaction, ethnic identity, and total of acculturation score with DI tend to be negatively significant. In addition, the result of the one-way ANOVA supported the hypothesis that the different types of acculturation had a differential effect on immigrant distress. The marginalized group showed a greater immigrant distresses in comparison with the integrated group. Furthermore, the comparison t-test revealed that the Vietnamese immigrant women showed a lower score than Taiwanese women in HRQOL. The result showed higher acculturative stress associated with lower score of HRQOL on bodily pain, vitality, social functioning, mental health, and mental component summary. The CART procedure to the conclusion that the predictive variables for the physical component of the SF-36 (PCS) were: alienation, occupation, loss, language, and discrimination (predicted 28.8% of the total variance explained). The predictive variables for the mental component of the SF-36 (MCS) were: alienation, occupation, loss, language, and novelty (predicted 28.4% of the total variance explained). Conclusion As these Vietnamese immigrant women become part of Taiwanese communities and society, the need becomes apparent to understand how they acculturate to Taiwan and to the health status they acquire. The findings have implications for nursing practice, research, and will assist the Taiwanese government to formulate appropriate immigrant health policies for these SEA immigrant women. Finally, the application of this research will positively contribute to the health and well being of thousands of immigrant women and their families.
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Yang, Yung-Mei. "Acculturation and health outcomes among Vietnamese immigrant women in Taiwan." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/20647/.
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Background Recently, Taiwan has been faced with the migration of numbers of women from Southeast Asian (SEA) countries. It was estimated that the aggregate number of SEA wives in Taiwan was more than 131,000 in 2007 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2006).These women are often colloquially called, “foreign brides” or “alien brides”; most of them are seen as commodities of the marriage trade, whose marriages are arranged by marriage brokers. Some women can be regarded as being sold for profit by their families. These young Vietnamese immigrant women come to Taiwan alone, often with a single suitcase, and are culturally and geographically distinct from Taiwanese peoples; the changes in culture, interpersonal relationships, personal roles, language, value systems and attitudes exert many negative impacts on their health, so greater levels of acculturation stress can be expected. This particular group of immigrant women are highly susceptible and vulnerable to health problems, due to language barriers, cultural conflicts, social and interpersonal isolation, and lack of support systems. The aims of this study were to examine the relationships between acculturation and immigrantspecific distress and health outcomes among Vietnamese transnational married women in Taiwan. This study focuses on Vietnamese intermarriage immigrants, the largest immigrant group in the period from1994 through to 2007.
Methodology The quantitative study was divided into two phases: the first was a pilot study and the second the main study. This study was conducted in a communitybased health centre in the south of Taiwan, targeting Taiwanese households with Vietnamese wives, including the Tanam, Kaohsiung, and Pentong areas. This involved convenience sampling with participants drawn from registration records at the Public Health Centre of Kaohsiung and used the snowball technique to recruit 213 participants. The instruments included the following measures: (1) Socio-demographic information (2) Acculturation Scale (3) Acculturative Distress Scale, and (4) HRQOL. Questions related to immigrant women’s acculturation level and health status were modified. Quantitative data was coded and entered into the SPSS and SAS program for statistical analysis. The data analysis process involved descriptive, bivariate, multivariate multiple regression, and classification and regression trees (CART). Results Six hypotheses of this study were validated. Demographic data was presented and it revealed that there are statically significant differences between levels of acculturation and years of residency in Taiwan, number of children, marital status, education, religion of spouse, employment status of spouse and Chinese ethnic background by Pearson correlation and Kendall’s Tau-b or Spearman test. The correlations of daily activity, language usage, social interaction, ethnic identity, and total of acculturation score with DI tend to be negatively significant. In addition, the result of the one-way ANOVA supported the hypothesis that the different types of acculturation had a differential effect on immigrant distress. The marginalized group showed a greater immigrant distresses in comparison with the integrated group. Furthermore, the comparison t-test revealed that the Vietnamese immigrant women showed a lower score than Taiwanese women in HRQOL. The result showed higher acculturative stress associated with lower score of HRQOL on bodily pain, vitality, social functioning, mental health, and mental component summary. The CART procedure to the conclusion that the predictive variables for the physical component of the SF-36 (PCS) were: alienation, occupation, loss, language, and discrimination (predicted 28.8% of the total variance explained). The predictive variables for the mental component of the SF-36 (MCS) were: alienation, occupation, loss, language, and novelty (predicted 28.4% of the total variance explained). Conclusion As these Vietnamese immigrant women become part of Taiwanese communities and society, the need becomes apparent to understand how they acculturate to Taiwan and to the health status they acquire. The findings have implications for nursing practice, research, and will assist the Taiwanese government to formulate appropriate immigrant health policies for these SEA immigrant women. Finally, the application of this research will positively contribute to the health and well being of thousands of immigrant women and their families.
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Nhan, Tran Thanh. "The impact of the assessment process and the international MA-TESOL course on the professional identity of Vietnamese student teachers : an ecological perspective." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3159.
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In the context of globalisation, English language teaching is a billions-of-pounds-worth business, yet the teacher of English still remains “an almost invisible figure” (Garton and Richards, 2008, p. 4). In Vietnam, thousands of TESOL teachers have been sponsored to enhance their professionalism in Anglophone institutions, yet the results of their sojourn study still remain almost intangible. These vague self-concepts of the TESOL teacher in both global and local contexts have motivated the researcher to conduct this study on the impact of the international MA-TESOL course on the professional identity of Vietnamese student teachers with the assessment process being the main focus owing to its substantial influence on the learner’s identity (Ecclestone and Pryor, 2003; Pryor and Crossouard, 2008). This “divergent multiple case study” is grounded in the school of social constructivism with new developments of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) and theories of expansive learning (Engeström, 2001; Engeström and Sannino, 2010). It adopts an ecological view to analyse the assessment process and the international MA-TESOL course by using an “ecological activity system”, a combination of Engeström (1987)’s activity system, Pryor and Crossouard (2008)’s socio-cultural theorisation of formative assessment, and Hodgson and Spours (2013)’s high opportunity progression eco-system (HOPE) as the major conceptual framework. The assessment process, the object of the system, is perceived as encompassing both summative assessment tasks and formative feedback. Meanwhile, the professional identity, the outcome with cognitive, affective, behavioural, and socio-cultural aspects, is regarded as a case of multiplicity in unity and discontinuity in continuity (Akkerman and Meijer, 2011), and is to be depicted in two different dimensions: retrospection vs. prospection and projection vs. introjection (Bernstein, 2000). This research follows narrative inquiry and employs intensive, active, semi-structured interview as the primary data collection method and the documentary analysis of the MA-TESOL syllabi as the supplementary one. It called for the voluntary participation of fourteen Vietnamese student teachers studying in four Anglophone countries: Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States and collated four sets of the course syllabi. The thematic data analysis has yielded insights into (1) the positive impact of the assessment process on four major aspects of the professional identity; (2) the salient impacts of other factors of the international MA-TESOL course: the subject, the mediating artefacts, the rules, the community, and the power relations; and (3) the long-term impact on their continued career paths. The research findings may facilitate cross-institutional understanding of the assessment policies and the international MA-TESOL curricula and serve as a reference to design more beneficial TESOL training programmes for the future student teachers worldwide.
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Hoang, Anh Ngoc. "Des vietnamités numériques ? : étude des imaginaires sociaux dans les échanges entre les Vietnamiens nationaux et les Vietnamiens diasporiques." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040035.
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L’« identité collective » vietnamienne est un sujet omniprésent dans les discours médiatiques et les productions scientifiques du Vietnam et des communautés vietnamiennes d’outre-mer depuis quelques décennies. L’enjeu de cette recherche doctorale consiste à appréhender ces phénomènes identitaires vietnamiens sous un triple angle spécifique : en examinant la construction d’imaginaires sociaux de ce que signifient aujourd’hui « Vietnam » et « être vietnamien » à travers les échanges numériques entre les Vietnamiens nationaux et les Vietnamiens diasporiques. Deux phénomènes sociaux récents, la chanson Bonjour Vietnam et l’affaire des manifestations anti-chinoises au sujet du conflit sinovietnamiendes archipels des Paracels et des Spratleys, sont alors envisagés comme des lieux de construction des vietnamités numériques contemporaines. Celles-ci, investiguées dans une approche communicationnelle qui articule les trois dimensions constitutives de cette réalité sociétale, à savoir celle de la technique, celle du social et celle du sens, se sont avérées plurielles, hétérogènes,« idéologiques » et « utopiques », au sens de Paul Ricoeur. Produites à travers des pratiques de l’imagination collective, ces vietnamités numériques sont aux prises avec les flux transnationaux liés à la globalisation, tout en étant inscrites dans une logique de pouvoir de l’Etat-nation vietnamien. Ainsi,dépassant une visée de démystification ou de dénonciation idéologique, cette thèse tente de mettre au jour la dimension indépassable de l’imaginaire social, conçu comme un processus de communicationVietnamese « collective identity » is an omnipresent topic in medias discourses and scientificproductions of Vietnam and over-seas Vietnamese communities since some decades. This doctoralresearch aims at examining these Vietnamese identity phenomena from a triple particular stance: ininvestigating the construction of social imaginaries of what “Vietnam” and “be Vietnamese” meantoday, through digital exchanges between national Vietnamese and diasporic Vietnamese. Two recentsocial phenomena, namely the song Hello Vietnam and anti-Chinese demonstrations relative to theSino-Vietnamese conflict about Paracles and Spratleys islands, are then viewed as the places ofconstruction of contemporary digital Vietnam-nesses. These-ones, investigated in a communicationalapproach, that links together three dimensions of a social reality, that is technical, social andmeaningful, proved to be plurial, heterogeneous, “ideological” as well as “utopian”, in Paul Ricoeur’ssense. Produced in collective imagination practices, these Vietnam-nesses are confronted withtransnational flows caused by globalization, while being under the logic of power of the Vietnamesenation-state. Thus, going beyond the aim of ideological demystification or denunciation, thisdissertation attempts to reveal the inevitable dimension of social imaginary, viewed as a process ofcommunication
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Thers, Alain. "Les autels religieux, analyseurs des dynamiques subjectives dans les processus d'interculturation chez les migrants vietnamiens : une approche en psychologie interculturelle." Thesis, Bordeaux 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012BOR21925/document.
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Notre présence de 1990 à 2010 en qualité d’éducateur spécialisé sur Beaubreuil, quartier de la ville de Limoges, Haute-Vienne, nous a permis d’accompagner, d’observer et de prendre part pendant plus de vingt années aux processus migratoires vietnamiens. Durant tout ce temps nous avons pu constater d’un point de vue psychologique que les ruptures consécutives à l’exil, puis au choc culturel né du contact avec la société d’accueil, ont fait surgir chez les individus des problématiques complexes, notamment identitaires. Dans l’exil, pour faire face aux risques psychosociaux provoqués par l’instabilité de leur structure psychique et de leur système culturel, les vietnamiens ont investi l’espace public et l’espace privé proposés par la culture d’accueil. Ces démarches, multiples, leur ont permis dans le réaménagement de ces espaces, de retrouver, de recréer, les éléments perçus par eux comme fondamentaux de leur culture d’origine, nécessaires et indispensables au travail de rééquilibrage psychique. En France, l’injonction culturelle vietnamienne d’élaboration d’autels religieux au sein de leurs habitations a conduit les personnes à réinterpréter, au sein de dynamiques subjectives, la question des différentes composantes de leur identité, personnelle et sociale, culturelle et religieuse. Les interactions entre l’injonction de la culture d’origine et l’espace proposé par la culture d’accueil ont conduit les sujets à engager des transformations, des modifications dans l’élaboration de leurs autels religieux. En ce sens ces élaborations rendent compte et constituent des analyseurs particulièrement pertinents des processus d’interculturationOur presence from 1990 to 2010 as a social worker in Beaubreuil, district of the city of Limoges, Haute-Vienne, allowed us to support, observe and take part for over twenty years in the Vietnamese migration processes. All this time, we noted from a psychological perspective, that ruptures, resulting from the exile, then from the culture shock, were born by contacts with the host society, have given rise to individuals, complex problems including identity ones. In exile, to face the psychosocial risks caused by the instability of their psychic structure and their cultural system, the Vietnamese have invested public and private areas offered by the host culture. These approaches, multiple, allowed them in the redevelopment of these areas, to find, to recreate the elements perceived by them as fundamental in their native culture, necessary and essential to their work of psychic restructuring. In France, the cultural injunction of religious altars development in the private sphere has led them to reinterpret in a subjective way the question of the different components of their identity personal and social, cultural and religious The interactions between the native culture injunction and the space proposed by the host culture has engaged transformations, changes in the elaboration of religious altars. In that way, they are reflecting and are forming analyzers, particularly relevant to us, the intercultural exchange process
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Nguyen, Ngoc Thi Cat. "Vietnam's foreign policy on the Cambodian issue (1978-1989) : neo-realist and ideas-identity explanations." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438593.
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Andersen, Linn Kristine. ""Never try, never know" : identitetsskapelse og drømmen om vesten blant unge vietnamesere i Nha Trang /." Oslo : Sosialantropologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, 2007. http://www.duo.uio.no/publ/sai/2007/60213/Masteroppgave.pdf.
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Fisher, J. L. "Vietnamese ethnic identity and food in Canberra." Master's thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/112478.
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In this thesis I describe two key symbols of Vietnamese ethnic identity in
Canberra, namely flag and family where flag represents the Vietnamese love of
homeland and commitment to continue the struggle for freedom, and family
relations between kin based on generosity and reciprocity coupled with unquestioned
authority and respect for elders. These are markers of ethnic distinctiveness
deployed by Vietnamese to distinguish themselves from the Anglo-Celtic majority
and other minority groups arriving in Australia from Indochina. I examine how
the collective and particularistic aspects of both are worked out through the
commercial production and presentation of food - an "authentic" cultural product -
marketed by Vietnamese restauranteurs in an Australian context.
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Rootham, Esther Maddy. "Racialized youth, identity and the labour market : the Vietnamese second generation /." 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR32018.
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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Geography.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-188). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR32018
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Tao, Hsiao-Hsuan, and 陶曉萱. "Crossing Boundaries-Vietnamese Women's Self-identity in Hualien." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65760662529139873376.
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碩士國立花蓮師範學院
多元文化研究所
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The cross-border marriage has been recognized as a hot issue in the last decade in Taiwan. Therefore, this research focuses on twelve “Vietnamese brides” who live in Hualien, intend to explore the cross-cultural and changing circumstance where these “Vietnamese brides” locate to see how they understand and response. On the other hand, this report will discuss their high-degree different self-interpretation and self-identity regarding to the circumstance they faced. Moreover, how these “Vietnamese brides” showing their agency in order to cope with the situation is also to be interested by this research. Finally, this research tries to change the homogeneous image on “foreign brides”, and to highlight their inner diversity and individual agency. Facing the poverty of Vietnamese economy, altruistic gender culture and the closed relationship between Vietnam and Taiwan, Vietnamese girls are willing to come aboard to be “Vietnamese Brides”. This means also can upgrade the social or economic position of their family in Vietnam. Thus, cross-border marriage has positive recognition among these Vietnamese girls. However, “Vietnamese brides” have realized that their lives have been narrowed down only around the marriage or the family. Research has discovered that the cross-border marriage has brought few unhappy brides with complaint due to much limitation. On the other hand, few women are keeping their faithful and patient attitude toward to their cross-border marriage. Others are trying to expand or open their interpersonal networks to obtain the emotional support. This research also has found out that value judgment and material competitions appeared among Vietnamese groups. However, they are capable of choosing to participate or withdraw from the group when enmity and harmful whisper around them. According to the negative remarks around societies on these cross-border brides in the past few years, “Vietnamese brides” are full of complaints about this but can’t resist. This research also has found that several of them choose the classificatory principle to separate from “inferior others”. Others do want their identities are recognized as Taiwanese instead of calling their Vietnamese identity in public. Finally, this research ascertains that family relationship between bride and bride’s Vietnamese family is not finished because of the transnational migration. On the other hand, they are trying many different ways, such as material supports, and etc., to maintain the family relationship even closer. By doing this, “Vietnamese brides” assure that their important status in the original Vietnamese family will not be lost or even stronger. By the way, what they have acted also demolish the traditional saying “the daughter married out is just like splash water”.
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Thomas, Mandy. "Place, memory, and identity in the Vietnamese diaspora." Phd thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10057.
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This thesis traces the twin themes of place and memory in the lives of a displaced people who experience life in Australia through the life left behind. This study begins with the notion that identity is spatially encoded , and that the modes of defining the self are physically and metaphorically grounded in space. The ongoing relationship with Vietnam connects people through time and space with a mythologised place that lies within the landscape of memory but has existential immediacy. I examine the degrees of separation from the symbolic landscape of Vietnam that are invoked in the reconstruction of identity that occurs after migration. The significance of the spatial dimension of migration has been explored in several different domains. I begin by providing a background to the displacement process through a historical account of the transformations in Vietnamese national identity, and the events that led to mass migration out of the country. Through the personal accounts of these processes by Vietnamese people, I detail the response to the arrival of Vietnamese people by Australian society, and the changes within the Vietnamese communities over the last twenty years. I then examine the construction of Vietnamese spaces within Australia beginning with the embodied differences of Vietnamese-Australians, leading out through domestic spaces, and streetscapes to the use of public spaces. I reveal the way in which both fragmentation and consolidation of family ties are experienced spatially. I explore the spaces in which the body moves as well as the spaces of Vietnamese homes to draw out the explicit and implicit meanings encoded in domestic landscapes and the material arrangements of social space. Relationships between different Vietnamese familes and communities are also examined in spatial terms as is the relationship of Vietnamese communities to the broader Australian society. The relationship that Vietnamese people have with Vietnam is examined through people's memories as well as through their ongoing relations with their homeland and with family and friends elsewhere in the diaspora. By studying the changes in the relationship that Vietnamese people have with their homeland I explore the geopolitical landscape that invests the lives of Vietnamese-Australians with the past, in another time and space. Borderlands are formed within the broader Australian community as well as in relation to an imaginary past and present homeland. The creativity of diasporas in constantly changing circumstances is tempered by the will to create immutable borders on both sides of a cultural divide. The chimera of boundaries is revealed through the highlighting of diversity and transformation in individual people's lives, in relationships within and beyond families, and in the Australian urban environment.
By tracing the power and potency of 'home' and the memories of other times and places in the lives of Vietnamese migrants in Australia, some of the threads in the complex weaving of identity in the lives of Vietnamese Australians are revealed. The capturing of the past in the present is explored, particularly in relation to places that have been lived in in the past, and spaces in urban Australia which Vietnamese people now inhabit. Constructions of the past are unravelled through a study of memories, fantasies, narratives and myths. The hidden dimensions of marginality are examined through a study of the spatial politics of difference within urban Australia, within the overarching historical and political contexts of Vietnamese migration. The identities of Vietnamese people have been infused with new meanings as people's lives undergo transformation within the changing environmental and cultural worlds of Australia where they are impacted upon by the expectations and responses of mainstream society. The spatial configurations of Vietnamese-Australian identities are explored in order to understand the possibilities for both freedom and subjection offered by a new country and to evaluate the multiple meanings of home.
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Yu, Su-Lan, and 余素蘭. "Vietnamese Female Immigrants’ Expectation Gap and Identity of Taiwan." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67897809102943876430.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
東南亞學系
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This study focuses on Vietnamese female immigrants in New Taipei City to find out how the gap between the expectations for Taiwan before and after the immigration affects their identity. First, we start with the literature to clarify the background, motivation, and aspects of life of the immigrants in Taiwan. Hence, we hope to understand their image for Taiwan before the immigration, their life experience and identity of Taiwan after the immigration. The study is mainly based on semi-structured deep interviews and supplemented by document analysis. The subjects of study are 15 Vietnamese female immigrants who are married to Taiwanese husbands. To clarify the aspects of their identity, the study divides it into "emotional identity", "economic identity", "living environment identity”, and "political identity". The study discovers that the fulfillment of expectations for Taiwan will actually affect immigrants’ identity to Taiwan; within the identity, “emotional attachment” is the most important one, follow by “economic identity” , "living environment identity”, and "political identity". The "living environment identity " accounted for ten, "economic identity" accounted for nine, are all important factors. However, all kinds of living experiences also deeply affect immigrants’ identity with Taiwan, despite of the contrary expectations, immigrants may still identify with Taiwan because of other attachments.
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Luong, Kietnhi, and 梁潔茹. "The Strategy and Identity via IM Use of Vietnamese Students in Taiwan." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73337138402418763106.
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碩士國立交通大學
傳播研究所
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Due to the differences in society, politics, and economy, international students in Taiwan encounter many cultural conflicts. This study explored the strategy and identity of Vietnamese students to face a new environment via their IM use. Both interview and observation approaches were applied to collect database of the samples, using their personal IM use experience to understand their habit consumption, and to clarify the across cultural factor and self-identity. The study found out that: The identity and language: Language is one of the important factors of international students to integrate into the local community. Because of the local public curiousness and psychological stress of living in a foreign country, Vietnamese students are usually sensitive of what local people think about them, and pay more attention to their own image. They often speak English to confirm their value and position in both real life and IM. Simultaneously, they also treasure the culture of their own native country to be recognized by hometown friends. Life course and habit change in IM use, pressure of women in IM use: Vietnamese married women usually have more pressure in using IM as compared to men, and the time they spend on Internet or online less than that of their premarital stage. Since they believe that they should wholeheartedly take care of their family. The Internet and computer is more useful for someone who still goes to school in the family. The continuous development of technology environment, users’ consuming strategy: The users will be combined with new communication technology to achieve their communicating purpose, instead of using a single technology.
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Fan, Kang-Hao, and 范綱皓. "Becoming Taiwanese Good Women? Spatial Politics of Identity for Female Vietnamese Immigrants." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10537688881208362719.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
建築與城鄉研究所
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As We know, more and more Vietnamese female immigrants flow across to Taiwan consistently. For the goal of integrity of Taiwanese nation-state’s territory, Taiwanese government proactively make these Vietnamese female immigrants into governing objectives and claim it for national security and national discourse entitlement. There are four governmentalities: (1) our government make orders to these immigrants, and make those immigrants bodies in the state of exception; (2) citizenship is made (and self-making); (3) national governance regime is multi-scales. (4) the boundary of nation-state controlling coincide with the boundary of mainstream sex/gender mindset. This thesis is trying to focus on the four governmentalities above and discuss them with spatial perspectives on territory, place, scale, networks/interconnectivity and mobility. I wondered about the intersection of the nation and gender factors. I propose that the nation-state sets restrictions on sex/gender practices and judge these immigrants morally. Furthermore, in this case, what will the “space” plays a role in this kind of discussion? And after the moral distinctions, how does the nation-state adjust to make national boundaries through spatial strategies? Data from fields, situational interviews, in-depth interviews and with official documents, the study is trying to explore the complexities between nationalism and sex/gender and how these they intersect. I generate four categories which are Taiwanese and Vietnamese good women; Taiwanese and Vietnamese bad women, and do analysis respectively. The study will show that how nation-state govern immigrant female and at the meanwhile, these immigrants as well, practice plenty of spatial strategies at the ethnic places to make the negotiation, resistance and some partial (dis)obedience. They still will seek for networking supports and other special daily practices. I find out that these immigrant women surely negotiate and adjust their identities while encountering the top-down power of Taiwanese nation-state. And, according to their sex/gender practices, they can become a Taiwanese good women when they obey to the mainstream sex and gender norms. However, if they “do badness”, they will be excluded out of the nation. Enduring these repression, they will trans-act, create ethnic places, involve in ethnic networks, territorialize ethnic identity, and cross through differential spatial strategies for their alternative practices, so as to be capable of deconstructing the sexually differentiation judgments. Morally should we forbid our desire for combining nations and nationalities so as to multiply our visions for embracing lifestyles of minorities, also should we acknowledge the construction, hybridity, functionality, and danger of the concept of nation. This study for immigrant female explicitly show the flourish development on identity with spatially migrations dialectics. Therefore I propose that the female immigrants should be “non-national egoism” and democratize their pathways to battle with the continually local state apparatus.
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Lin, Ching-Yi, and 林靜宜. "A Study on the Cultural Identity of the Second Generation of Vietnamese Immigrants." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/uk6645.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
社會與區域發展學系碩士班
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The subject of this study involved the second generation of Vietnamese immigrant students taking the Vietnamese language course in the researcher’s school. Experimental teaching intervention and semi-structured interview were conducted to collect interview data from the immigrant mothers and their children. After adopting inductive method to analyze the data, conclusions were obtained as followed. First of all, although the second generation of new immigrant students believed that learning Vietnamese culture is fundamentally important and beneficial, they have few opportunities to engage in Vietnamese culture due to limited outside resources and chances to experience. The new immigrant mothers have to work and learn Mandarin to accommodate to the new environment while their children are at very young age. Since the second generation of Vietnamese immigrants and their family did not aware the necessity of learning Vietnamese culture, that might miss the critical period of for those children to learn their mother tongue when they were young. These are reasons of poor cultural identity for the second generation of Vietnamese immigrants. Secondly, facing prejudices and uncomfortable experiences from classmates might result in different levels of influence in terms of the attachment and identity toward the mother of the second generation of Vietnamese. That would cause unfavorable influences on the development of their self-concept and self-identity. Prejudices from peers and academic pressure are shown as crucial factors which affect their learning attitudes toward Vietnamese culture when they are entering puberty. Thirdly, although the second generation of Vietnamese immigrants believed that there is no conflict of learning Vietnamese and Taiwanese culture, they are prone to choose and identify the environment which they grew up and be familiar with. Their learning motivation toward the mother tongue and Vietnamese cultures could be aroused after giving instructions. Fourthly, the second generation of Vietnamese immigrants of this study reported that they did not sense experiences which their mother was treated with no respect by others. Instead, their mother has certain amount level of autonomy to teach their children to speak Vietnamese and cook Vietnamese dishes. It revealed that the attitude of the second generation learning Vietnamese culture seemed to be changed in the Vietnamese immigrant family. The atmosphere at home is no longer a primary factor of causing unfavorable condition to share Vietnamese culture and learn Vietnamese. Based upon the results mentioned above, suggestions for parents of Vietnamese immigrants and the second generation of new Vietnamese immigrants and schools as well are proposed. Finally, suggestions for future studies are given in accordance with the findings of current study. Keyword: culture identity, the second generation of Vietnamese immigrant, and self-identity
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Lee, Shang-Yen. "Politická participace a otázka identity mezi česko-vietnamskými VŠ studenty." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-398791.
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The Vietnamese have been resided in Czech Republic since 1950s. Literature claims that the Vietnamese is a rather successfully integrated group in Czech Republic comparing with other minority. Hence, the master thesis aims at exploring the political participation as well as civic engagement of university students with Vietnamese ethnicity and are conceived as second generation of the Vietnamese group in Czech Republic. Based on a review on literature on theories and relevant studies on political participation, the research employed qualitative approach through semi-structured interviews with 15 Vietnamese university students in Prague. Analysis of the responses demonstrates that most of the participants perceive political participation as their duty of citizenship and do not link their political participation with minority identity. Meanwhile, a distinction of attitude towards civic engagement and political participation for the target group and the trend of replacing political activities with civic activities is discovered. At the end of the research, this study indicates that conventional theories of political participation are not be able to cover the complexity of political participation in the modern society. Keywords Vietnamese minority, political participation, civic participation, minority...
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Fox, Stephen. "Psychosocial adjustment of Vietnamese immigrants in Hawaiʻi." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11871.
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陳慧穎. "The influences of self-identity process on literacy learning of Vietnamese female immigrants in Taiwan." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69395894545422450321.
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碩士佛光大學
社會教育學研究所
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With more and more female immigrants move from different countries and cultures to our country, education has become the best way for them to get used to our life and cultures. But they are different from school-age child. They are older and have been influenced by their mother cultures. And they have had their mother country’s educational foundation. Also have different learning beginning. Therefore, ‘adult learning’ become an important way between them and our culture. This study intend to understand the influences of self-identity process on adult-learning of Yilan County’s female immigrants from Southeast Asia. Talking to five female immigrants, and let them express their learning process and life experiences in both their mother country and here in Taiwan. Qualitative research approach is employed; the main findings are as followings: (1) their life experiences in mother country have significant influences on self-identity process; (2) their life experiences in Taiwan have significant influences on self-identity process; (3) the female immigrants’ transformation of life course has become the motive power of their learning;
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"Growing up Australian : exploring the ethnic identity negotiation of second generation Vietnamese youth in Perth." Thesis, Curtin University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/317.
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This thesis is an exploration of the ethnic identity negotiation of a group of second generation Vietnamese young persons in Perth, and aims to uncover the content of ethnic identity; in other words, “what it means” and “what it looks like” to be Vietnamese or Australian. Adopting an interpretive narrative approach as research methodology, this research focuses on the familial and social experiences of this group of participants in uncovering dimensions of their ethnic identification and ethnic identity formation. Twenty second generation Vietnamese youth were invited to share their stories of growing up in Australia; this included ten male and ten female young persons. Using unstructured narrative interviews, this research explores the socio-cultural dimensions of their life experience as they navigate their transition into adulthood.Findings from this research suggest that the participants identify concomitantly as Vietnamese and Australian, giving strength to the notion that ethnic identity is but one of a multitude of social identities. The participants’ narratives also reveal that country of birth; cultural values and practices; ethnic socialization; and language spoken are dimensions salient to their ethnic identity formation process. In exploring their familial experiences, it was revealed that a disparity in values existed between the participants and their parents. This disparity often resulted in parent-child conflict during the participants’ adolescent years, in turn affecting their ethnic identity negotiation.Whilst it is acknowledged that the participants’ stories are not representative of all second generation Vietnamese youth in Perth, I argue that the Vietnamese in Perth are on an upward trajectory and have successfully integrated into the Australian mainstream culture. More importantly, their stories demonstrate that these young persons are skilful navigators as they negotiate between the two cultures. That is, rather than being caught “between” two cultures, these young persons are active members of both.
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"Not Quite/ Just the Same/ Different: the Construction of Identity in Vietnamese War Orphans Adopted by White Parents." University of Technology, Sydney. Social Inquiry, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/316.
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Global diasporas caused by wars carry many streams of people - in the 1970s one of these streams contained orphans from Vietnam delivered to white parents in the West. On arrival, the social expectation was that these children would blend seamlessly into the culture of their adoptive parents. Now some adoptees, as adults, reflect on their lives as 'Asian' or racially 'Other' children in white societies, charting the critical points in their maturation. This thesis interrogates their life histories to explore the role of birth-culture in the self-definition of people removed from that culture at birth or in childhood. Thirteen adult adopted Vietnamese participants were interviewed. These interviews provided qualitative data on issues of racial and cultural identity. These data were developed and analysed, using a framework drawn from symbolic interactionism and cultural studies, in order to reveal the interpersonal dynamics in which people were involved, and the broader cultural relations that sustained them. The findings reveal that in early childhood the adopted Vietnamese identity process was shaped by a series of identifications with, and affirmations of, sharing their adoptive parents racial and cultural identity. Such identifications were then challenged once the adoptees entered society and were seen by others as different. The participants' attempts to locate a secure sense of self and identity within the world they are placed in are disturbed by numerous uncertainties surrounding racial and cultural difference. One of the most crucial uncertainties is the adopted Vietnamese knowledge about their cultural background. While most felt they lacked positive knowledge about Vietnam and racial diversity, their sense of identity was unsettled by experiences with racism and negative cultural stereotypes throughout their late childhood to adolescence. As their recognition and acceptance of their difference develops in adulthood, they experience a degree of empowerment due to their being able to access more knowledge about their cultural background and a greater appreciation of racial diversity. Many participants have formed closer ties with other people born in Vietnam, most notably other adoptees; most returned to visit Vietnam. The thesis concludes that those adoptees who were able to develop an understanding of the Vietnamese and other backgrounds to their complex identities, tended to be more integrated as adults than those who either rejected or were unable to come to terms with their Vietnamese ancestry.
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CHIU, PI-CHEN, and 邱碧珍. "The research of identity of new female immigrants in Taiwan:a study based on the female Vietnamese transnational marital." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89223128157565786879.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
社會科教育學系碩士班
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This study conducts in-depth qualitative interviews with nine new Vietnamese female immigrants in the Taipei region. The interview will focus on each individual’s background and motivation, the civil rights provided by the Taiwanese government, and their interaction with the Taiwanese society. The primary objective is to analyze the transformation of these immigrants’ ethnic identity. This study will also discuss their self-identity, experiences of identity negotiation, and the development of ethnic identities and women’s empowerment. This study shows that “personality” and “problem-solving ability” have the most significant influences on individuals’ life adjustment. Other factors such as environment, future career planning, and important people in life will also affect immigrants’ choices of their future living environment. Holding an ID card does not necessarily influence one’s identity. Having the right to work, however, does enhance their confidence, family status, and empowerment. In the family, the husband’s attitude has the largest influence on their family identity. How the treatment of Taiwanese society and their confidence toward their own races affect their relationship with the Taiwanese or people in their native country. Their feelings toward the original families remain the same, but the intensity alters depending on their conditions; those identify less powerfully with their native country but still treasure the honors of their country or attachment to their hometowns. Because of “inclusive fitness” and “benefit measurement”, native communities undergoes strategic adjustments of ethnic and cultural identities. Depending on the level ethnic identity, “self identity” goes through strategic adjustments between two societies. As long as the immigrants achieve “self identity” and demonstrate it with concrete actions, they will be able to live securely. Finally, I will propose a few suggestions concerning new female immigrants’ families and education, governmental institutions, the general public, and directions for future research based on the results of this research.
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Nguyen, Mai Phuong. "Etnická identita potomků Vietnamců v České republice: intersekcionální analýza životních zkušeností." Master's thesis, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-436994.
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Although Vietnamese has currently made up one of the three largest foreign community in the Czech Republic, the number of studies that focus on the challenges of Vietnamese immigrant descendants, especially regarding their ethnic identities in the Czech society is unfortunately confined. Different from their parents, one of the biggest obstacles that young Vietnamese descendants in the Czech Republic are facing in life is the question of their ethnic identities in the term of liminality and being strangers to both cultures (Vietnamese and Czech). Taking those reasons into account, this thesis aims to examine the experiences of "being stuck in-between" and confronting the process of (re)forming and shifting ethnic identities among children of Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic in the relation with other gendered identities that they define with. Based on a feminist approach, this paper pulls together prior and existing studies, developing from the data collected from questionnaire surveys and in-depth interviews to illustrate the subject matter. Relying immigrant lived experiences from the perspective of children and young people who have Vietnamese roots; this paper facilitates a broader understanding of their unique situation and factors that constitute their identity. Central to my...
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Chang, Cheng-Hsiang, and 張呈祥. "Social Identity of Female Foreign Spouses and Self-reflection of Governmental Action: Case Study of Vietnamese and Indonesian in Taichung City." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62707299467044814839.
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碩士國立中興大學
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For immigrant spouses in Taiwan, it is necessary to reconstruct their social identity when entering a new society. The aim of this paper was to investigate the various forms of social identity of current immigrant spouses in Taiwan and how they have entered the local society. Under the framework that social identity is supported by social welfare, social significance (culture), and social organization, the social identity of immigrant spouses was investigated using the degree of social trust as an approach in this study. Later, the current practices of the immigrant assistance and guidance policies of Taiwan and the opinions of both immigrant spouses and those involved in practical works were analyzed to obtain the research results. The research methods adopted in this study included document analysis, secondary data analysis, and in-depth interview. Conclusions derived from the analysis were as follows: (1) in the social welfare aspect, the subjects tended to show the adaptable type of identity; (2) in social significance (culture), they tended to show the adaptable type of identity; (3) in social organization, they tended to show the exclusive type of identity; and (4) in other aspects, they tended to show the adaptable type of identity. Generally, the subjects tended to have the adaptable type of identity. In other words, identifying themselves as the suppressed, they needed to accumulate some life experience in the new society and gain assistance from certain programs before they could redefine their positions in the new society. Thus, they had not been fused into Taiwan’s society to a deep extent. According to the research findings, five suggestions on Taiwan’s immigrant assistance and guidance policies were proposed as follows: (1) assistance and guidance should be continuously provided, and diversified courses for immigrants should be designed; (2) practical demands should be explored to improve the current policies; (3) human resources should be developed, and employment of immigrant spouses should be encouraged; (4) local organization mechanisms should be established to facilitate mediated communication; and (5) resources should be integrated to enhance cooperation.
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Nguyen, Thu-Huong. "Travel behaviour and its cultural context : an empirical study of the Vietnamese community in Australia." Thesis, 2003. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15543/.
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Culture involves a confluence between beliefs and values, customs and traditions, symbols and expressions, hopes and aspirations that human beings, in their various collectives, inherit and embody as their source of identity and meaning. Geographically removed from their cultural place or context, migrants undergo the shock of displacement and confront the possibility of losing their identity and sense of meaning. They carry their culture with them. However, it is cut-off from its roots and
support system. It is also enveloped by a new, more powerful and dominant culture. It may no longer be capable of providing them with the identity and meaning that was
possible in the homeland. The Vietnamese diaspora experience is of particular interest since the physical and emotional trauma accompanying migration contributes
to a strong sense of common origin, history and culture. This common experience of the Vietnamese migrants (Viet kieu) raises interesting questions about their views of
the world generally, and in particular about their country of origin. Decisions to travel to the former homeland may be prompted by a desire to maintain Vietnamese identity
and meaning, thereby enabling travellers to maintain a degree of normality and to adapt better in the new society. In the present study the researcher is interested in the
relationship between Viet kieu culture and travel behaviour.
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Svobodová, Andrea. "Vietnam vzdálený i blízký. Potomci Vietnamců v Česku z pohledu teorie transnacionalismu." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-370356.
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This dissertation is based on a narrative analysis of eighteen life biographies of children of Vietnamese descent in Czech Republic. It shows that these young people lives are embedded in a "transnational social space", which spans between two geographical regions of Vietnam and Czech Republic, and which leaves them exposed to a set of social expectations, cultural values and patterns of human interaction, that are shaped by more than one political, economic and social system. It also describes how these people, through multiple connected social networks and social relationships, transform cultural practices, interpretations, experiences and identities, which deconstructs the idea of integrity between place, identity and culture. Although the primary aim of the work is to analyse how children of Vietnamese operate in transnationalized social and cultural contexts, transnational practices, such as homeland visits, kinship ties and sending remittances are also being explored. In doing so the children of Vietnamese migrants are neither perceived as "existing in vacuum" nor are their identities described as "deterritorialized". The work pays also attention to the question how their lives and identities are shaped on the backdrop of discursive fields and power relationships in particular localities. Key...
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MARKOVÁ, Romana. "Vietnamská kuchyně jako nástroj integrace vietnamské menšiny do české společnosti." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-375287.
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The thesis describes the role of Vietnamese cuisine in the process of integration of the Vietnamese minority in the Czech Republic. The diploma thesis is divided into two parts-theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals with the concept of integration as such, its definition and classification. The first half of the work focuses on the integration policy of the Government of the Czech Republic and introduces readers to the notions of culture, cultural sensitivity, intercultural encounters and contact. In the theoretical part, there are also described centers for supporting integration and non-profit organizations in the Czech Republic engaged in the support of integration and what is the role the food in this process and to what extent these organizations focus on the role of food. There is also a presentation of Vietnamese cuisine in the Czech Republic. Furthermore, the theoretical part of the thesis focuses specifically on the concept of food, Vietnamese cuisine and a brief introduction of typical Vietnamese dishes. Last but not least, the diploma thesis reflects important knowledge about food as an instrument of integration, which serves as the basis for the following practical part. The practical part is devoted to the research itself, the main task of which was to find out, in a semi-structured interview, what role food plays in the process of integration, to what extent the addressed organizations consciously use food in their practice as one way of integration and how they reflect its effectiveness in the integration process. It reveals how Vietnamese cuisine is perceived in the Czech Republic and how the Vietnamese minority adopts Czech eating habits. It also summarizes the benefits of introducing culture through food, and the possible disadvantages of this, or the extent to which it is possible to learn about foreign cultures through food.
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Chhum, Sothea. "La figure du réfugié dans la littérature de la diaspora vietnamienne en Amérique du Nord : analyse des premiers romans de Lê Thi Diêm Thúy et de Kim Thúy." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/18697.
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La recherche sur la littérature de la diaspora vietnamienne dans une perspective nord-américaine a été longtemps négligée par les critiques littéraires. Aux États-Unis, les écrits des auteurs d’origine vietnamienne sont habituellement inclus dans un corpus appelé « Asian-American literature » alors qu’au Québec, on préfère parler de « littérature migrante ». C’est pourquoi ce mémoire propose d’analyser The Gangster We Are All Looking For (2003), de Lê Thi Diêm Thúy, et Ru (2009), de Kim Thúy. Outre le fait de mettre en scène une protagoniste appartenant à la deuxième génération, les deux romans questionnent le rôle de l’héritage familial et de la mémoire collective dans le rapport à soi et aux autres. Dans The Gangster We Are All Looking For, la quête identitaire se définit par le maintien de l’anonymat et le désir d’incarner la figure subversive qu’est le gangster. Dans Ru, il est plutôt question d’intégration : le parcours de la narratrice est celui d’une ascension vers le « rêve américain ». Les critiques littéraires ont été nombreuses à penser l’exil en termes de culture et d’hybridité, mais peu ont tenu compte de sa dimension juridico-politique. En nous appuyant sur le concept de la « vie nue » de Giorgio Agamben et le texte d’Edward Saïd intitulé « Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation », nous démontrerons que l’exil n’est pas simplement une expérience de déchirure romantique de citoyens privilégiés (écrivains, artistes, poètes, intellectuels). Il illustre aussi la condition précaire de ceux qui ne sont pas reconnus par le pouvoir étatique (réfugiés, apatrides, sans-papiers).Research on Vietnamese diasporic literature from a North American perspective has long been neglected by literary critics. In the United States, writings of authors who originated from Vietnam are usually labeled as Asian-American literature, while in Quebec we prefer to use the term « migrant literature ». This is why this master thesis proposes an analysis of The Gangster We Are All Looking For (2003), from Lê Thi Diêm Thúy, and Ru (2009), from Kim Thúy. Aside from featuring a second generation protagonist, both novels question the way family and collective memory shape the relation to self and others. In The Gangster We Are All Looking For, the quest for identity is defined by the persistance of anonymity as well as by the desire to become a “gangster”, a rebellious figure. In Ru, the future is more related to the notion of integration : the narrator’s life trajectory can be described as an ascent towards the American dream. Many literary critics understood exile in terms of culture and hybridity, but few of them took into account its juridico-political aspect. Using Giorgio Agamben’s concept of “bare life” and Edward Said’s ideas in « Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation », we will demonstrate that exile cannot be merely reduced to a compelling journey told from the perspective of privileged citizens (writers, artists, poets, intellectuals), since it also reflects the precarious status of those who are not recognized by the State (the refugees, the stateless, the undocumented workers).
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Hyková, Simona. "Příprava vietnamských dětí na českou mateřskou školu, Konfrontace norem." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-398748.
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The aim of this graduation thesis entitled Preparation of Vietnamese children for Czech state kindergarten, subtitled Confrontation norms, examines the requirements emphasised on Vietnamese children during adaption to preschools facilities. The purpose of thesis was to identify the main Vietnamese and Czech culture differences, which Vietnamese children are confronted with after entering Czech kindergarten. The study is composed of eight chapters, constituting Vietnamese culture, its habits, traditions, differences and describes the methodology of qualitative research. The investigation was conducted for one year in the Czech-Vietnamese Education Centre Talent, where the researcher subjectively perceived different norms. The last chapter of thesis summarises results of the investigation, critically reflects and answers to research questions.