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Nguyen, Thanh C. "Recommendations and guidelines for designing Vietnamese Buddhist temples in Australia /." Title page, Contents and Abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARCHM/09archmn576.pdf.
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Connell, Mong L. "A study of the cultural appropriateness of service delivery models in the Australian mental health system." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2002. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/714.
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This study is an attempt to examine the cultural appropriateness of the mental health system in relation to the Vietnamese refugee community in Australia. Culture and mental health, as widely acknowledged in the field of transcultural psychiatry, are closely linked. No aspect of the diagnosis or treatment methods can be justified without reference to the cultural traditions of the mental health system and the client. In a country like Australia, where multiculturalism is a dominant feature of the society, the need is even greater in incorporating culture into every aspect of the mental health system, if it desires to provide a culturally appropriate service to all immigrant groups. Every immigrant group brings with them different cultural values and attitudes. Included in these are viewpoints about mental health/illness that can diverge distinctly from those belonging to the more prevalent Anglo-Saxon cultural norms. How the illness is perceived as to its cause, treatment to healing are different in most cultures. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (1996), Vietnamese immigrants form one of the largest displaced people ever to be accepted into Australia as refugees. Their history of escape from the communist regime in Vietnam have sparked worldwide concerns about the state of their mental health. Their journey of escape is not without torture and trauma. Once settled into a country like Australia, they face many settlement obstacles. The cultural and social adjustments that they have to undergo have made them one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged immigrant groups in Australia. Faced with such a group that have a high predisposition to mental stress and anxiety, the question lies in whether the Australian mental health system is sufficiently informed and prepared to provide a service which has relevance and meaning to these people. I argue that the system has not adequately provided a service to such a purpose. Although much progress and research has been done, it still operates very much within a Western philosophy. Its traditions, values and attitudes reflect a worldview that make little cultural sense to these people. Its racist assumptions and attitudes which promote cultural superiority of the West has resulted in a system labelled as culturally inefficient. Racism has been socially constructed and entrenched within the system for many years and it's origins are lost in the history of Western culture. Its mental health system is essentially monocultural. Culturally inappropriate diagnostic and treatment programmes and a shortage of professionals with the necessary linguistic, cultural and clinical competencies are just some of the deficiencies that exist within the system. Many training programmes have failed to evoke practitioners into questioning the effectiveness and cultural appropriateness of these fundamental structures supporting existing models of service delivery. This study is done through a discussion of the history of racism, certain important concepts, for example, culture and mental health/illness and the social, historical and political experience of the Vietnamese. The rest of the research focuses on certain specific barriers of accessibility and concludes with how these barriers can be addressed. In doing so, it advocates for a totally non-racist approach from an international to a personal level of service. Only through this approach can the mental health system claim to provide a service that is culturally sensitive and meaningful.
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Hoang, Tinh. "A Study of Pragmatic Change in the Vietnamese of Second Generation Speakers in Queensland, Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366501.
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Language contact, bilingualism and contact-induced language change have created controversial issues among linguists as more and more people of different languages and cultures around the world come into contact. There have been studies of the phenomena of language change including code switching, code mixing, interference, transference, and convergence in different language dyads (Clyne, 2003), especially in multi-lingual societies like Australia, the United States of America and Canada. However, there is insufficient research into the Vietnamese language used in Australia and its changes in comparison with Vietnamese used in Vietnam. This empirical study, therefore, investigates the patterns of pragmatic transference in spoken Vietnamese used by the second generation speakers in Australia who are English-Vietnamese bilinguals. The basic hypothesis of this thesis is that the formulae of pragmatic speech acts in spoken Vietnamese used by the second generation and their lack of knowledge or incorrect usage of Vietnamese idioms and proverbsshow a shift from indirectness to directness in the pragmatic performance of the language. Specifically, the study focuses on the speech act of refusal and the usage of Vietnamese idioms and proverbs. The study documents such pragmatic transference and explores the causes of these changes. The findings will help to fill the gap in the study of language change in linguistics as a whole, and particularly the study of the Vietnamese of the English-Vietnamese bilinguals, and the English-Vietnamese dyad in terms of linguistic and pragmatic elements.The findings have implications for language maintenance among the Vietnamese diaspora community in Australia, for the study of language change in heritage languages, and for understanding trends in the multicultural and multilingual society of Australia.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Languages and Linguistics
Arts, Education and Law
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Burley, Jennifer. "Equal before the law? : the case of Vietnamese refugees in South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb9608.pdf.
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Crowe, Ambrose. "War and conflict : the Australian Vietnam Veterans Association." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9333.
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Luong, Hien Thu. "Vietnamese Existential Philosophy: A Critical Appraisal." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/44747.
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In this study I present a new understanding of Vietnamese existentialism during the period 1954-1975, the period between the Geneva Accords and the fall of Saigon in 1975. The prevailing view within Vietnam sees Vietnamese existentialism during this period as a morally bankrupt philosophy that is a mere imitation of European versions of existentialism. I argue to the contrary that while Vietnamese existential philosophy and European existentialism share some themes, Vietnamese existentialism during this period is rooted in the particularities of Vietnamese traditional culture and social structures and in the lived experience of Vietnamese people over Vietnam's 1000-year history of occupation and oppression by foreign forces. I also argue that Vietnamese existentialism is a profoundly moral philosophy, committed to justice in the social and political spheres. Heavily influenced by Vietnamese Buddhism, Vietnamese existential philosophy, I argue, places emphasis on the concept of a non-substantial, relational, and social self and a harmonious and constitutive relation between the self and other. The Vietnamese philosophers argue that oppressions of the mind must be liberated and that social structures that result in violence must be changed. Consistent with these ends Vietnamese existentialism proposes a multi-perspective ontology, a dialectical view of human thought, and a method of meditation that releases the mind to be able to understand both the nature of reality as it is and the means to live a moral, politically engaged life. This study incorporates Vietnamese existential philosophy from 1954-1975 into the flow of the Vietnamese philosophical tradition while also acknowledging its relevance to contemporary Vietnam. In particular, this interpretation of Vietnamese existentialism helps us to understand the philosophical basis of movements in Vietnam to bring about social revolution, to destroy forms of social violence, to reduce poverty, and to foster equality, freedom, and democracy for every member of society. By offering a comparison between Vietnamese existential thinkers and Western existentialists, the study bridges Vietnamese and the western traditions while respecting their diversity. In these ways I hope to show that Vietnamese existentialism makes an original contribution to philosophical thought and must be placed on the map of world philosophies.
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Steel, Zachary Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine UNSW. "Mental disorder amongst people of Vietnamese background: prevalence, trauma and culture." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Psychiatry, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/40888.
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The role that culture and trauma plays in shaping mental health outcomes continues to dominate debate in the field of transcultural and post-conflict mental health. The broad aim of this thesis is to investigate key issues relevant to these two factors in relation to the Vietnamese. A meta-analysis of international epidemiological research indicated that countries of North and South East Asia appear to manifest low rates of mental disorder compared to English-speaking countries. A meta-regression analysis of research undertaken specifically with refugee and conflict-affected populations, confirmed a robust association between torture and general trauma and risk to mental disorder. The thesis then examines data from three population-based mental health surveys: 1,161 Vietnamese-Australian residents in the state of New South Wales; 3,039 Vietnamese resident in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam; and 7,961 Australian-born persons drawn from a national survey. All surveys applied the Composite International Diagnostic Interview, with the Vietnamese surveys also applying the Phan Vietnamese Psychiatric Rating Scale, an indigenously-derived measure of mental disorder. The ICD-10 classification system yielded lowest rates amongst Vietnamese in the Mekong Delta, intermediate amongst Vietnamese in NSW; and highest rates amongst the Australian-born population. The Phan Vietnamese Psychiatric Rating Scale added a substantial number of cases in both Vietnamese samples. The findings suggest that sole reliance on a western-derived measure of mental disorder may fail to identify a cases of mental disorder across cultures. Trauma remained a substantial risk factor for mental disorder amongst Australian Vietnamese accounting for a substantial portion of the total burden of mental disorder in that population. The implications of these findings in developing a more refined model for understanding the mental health consequences of mass trauma across cultures are discussed.
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Chartprasert, Kiattikhun. "Australia and the Kampuchean problem : Thai perspectives." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/112144.
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Throughout recorded history, Indochina has experienced conflict, turbulence and violence. One of the first recorded conflicts was in the first century A. D. when the Hung Sisters led a revolt in Northern Vietnam against Chinese domination. Ever since, relations with China have included long periods of peace and stability broken by conflict, invasion and resistance. But it was not until the United States directly participated in Vietnamese affairs following the French withdrawal after the battle of Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Settlement of 1954 that the region has been the scene of "superpower rivalry". The wars which have engulfed the Indochina states over the past 30 years have brought untold human suffering and misery. When hostilities finally ceased as a result of the communist victories in Indochina in mid 1970s, the world looked forward hopefully to a long period of peace in which the well-being of the people of the region could be advanced and assured. Unfortunately, conflicts and instability have broken out anew.
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Ohtsuka, Thai, and thai_ohtsuka@hotmail com. "Impact of cultural change and acculturation on the health and help seeking behaviour of Vietnamese-Australians." Swinburne University of Technology, 2005. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20051013.095125.
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This study investigated the influence of cultural change and acculturation on
health-related help seeking behaviour of Vietnamese-Australians. Using convenience
sampling, 94 Vietnamese-Australians, 106 Anglo-Australians, and 49 Vietnamese in Vietnam participated in the study. Beliefs about health and health-related help-seeking behaviours were assessed through measures of common mental health symptoms, illness expression (somatisation, psychologisation), symptom causal attributions (environmental, psychological, biological), and choice of help seeking (self-help, family/friends, spiritual, mental health, Western medicine, Eastern medicine).Vietnamese-Australian data was compared with that of the Anglo-Australian and Vietnamese-in Vietnam. Results revealed that the help seeking behaviours and health related cognitions of Vietnamese-Australians, while significantly different from those of Anglo-Australians, were similar to those of Vietnamese in Vietnam. Specifically, both Vietnamese groups were less likely than Anglo-Australians to somatise and
psychologise or attribute the cause of symptoms to environmental, psychological or biological causes. However, the two Vietnamese groups were not different from each other in their style of illness expression or in their symptom causal attributions. The Vietnamese-Australians reported experiencing more mental health symptoms than the Vietnamese in Vietnam but fewer than the Anglo-Australians. In relation to help seeking, the Anglo-Australians chose self-help more than the Vietnamese, but there were few other differences between the cultural groups.
To investigate the influence of acculturation on health-related beliefs and help seeking behaviour, Vietnamese-Australians were compared according to their modes of acculturation (integration, assimilation, separation, and marginalisation). Generally, results showed a distinct pattern of response. Those with high levels of acculturation towards the Australian culture (the integration and the assimilation) were found to be most similar (in that they scored the highest in most areas measured) to the Anglo-Australians, while few differences were found between the separated and the
marginalised groups. Further, cultural orientation was a powerful predictor of help
seeking. In that, original cultural orientation predicted selection of help seeking from
Western and Eastern medicine, whereas, the host cultural orientation was a more robust predictor of the other variables. However, neither cultural orientation predicted preference for mental health help. Finally, the study found that, although the combination of symptom score, modes of illness expression, and symptom causal
attribution were strong predictors of choice of help seeking of Vietnamese-Australians,
acculturation scores further improved predictive power. The results were discussed in terms of the various limitations and constraints on interpretation of this complex data set.
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Murphy, Mary Denise. "Living with asthma in Australia : an anthropological perspective on life with a chronic illness." University of Western Australia. School of Anatomy and Human Biology, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0070.
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[Truncated abstract] In Australia, asthma is a common chronic illness, which often requires complex treatment regimens. This study used an anthropological perspective to explore the experience of people living with asthma, with the specific aim of contributing to the health care programs offered to people living with asthma. The study was conducted in an Australian city (Perth, Western Australia). The foci of the study were Australian lay people, from the general community, living with asthma, and a small number of non- English speaking Vietnamese-Australian migrants. Some spouses of the Australians and biomedical practitioners were also included. Questionnaires, and particularly indepth interviews, were used to explore the explanatory models of asthma for doctors and lay people with the condition. The explanatory models of the doctors focused primarily on assessing and treating the physiological dimension of asthma, and educating patients. The explanatory models for lay people with asthma reflected their everyday reality: in addition to its impact on their physical health, asthma affected their daily life, social roles and participation, and their personal identity. Placing the experience of asthma in this wider perspective showed that the Australians used practical reasoning to make a trade-off between using medication, such that they felt safe from `attacks? and could `do all they wanted to do?, and minimising their `dependence? on potentially harmful medications. Responding to acute episodes involved a risk assessment in which people weighing the health risk of waiting against the social risk of seeking help unnecessarily. For the Vietnamese- Australians, caring for asthma was strongly shaped by their social position as non- English speaking migrants. They lacked access to information about asthma and to specialist care. They had sufficient medication, but were ill-informed about how to use their medicines effectively and safely: in general, the Vietnamese people were overmedicated but under-serviced in the care of their asthma. Beyond explanatory models, the Australian participants (lay people and doctors) shared a cultural model of asthma as a chronic illness. This Australian cultural model shaped the experience and care of asthma. It included concepts such as framing the past as an adjustment process, and the present as `living normally? with asthma. Taking care of asthma was expressed as `taking control? of asthma, so a person could minimise the illness and still be healthy. The Vietnamese-Australians did not share this cultural model of asthma as a chronic illness, as reflected in their expression of the hardship asthma created in limiting their ability to work hard for their family, and how they expected a cure for their condition from biomedicine. The Australians also shared a cultural model of health that was derived, in part, from the health promotion messages that are targeted at lay people. These promotional messages were the basis of a morality in health: people shared an implicit understanding that a person deserved health, and assistance when ill, when he/she displayed the required self-discipline in performing health behaviours.
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Broinowski, Alison Elizabeth, and alison broinowski@anu edu au. "About face : Asian representations of Australia." The Australian National University. Faculty of Asian Studies, 2002. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20030404.135751.
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This thesis considers the ways in which Australia has been publicly represented in ten Asian societies in the twentieth century. It shows how these representations are at odds with Australian opinion leaders assertions about being a multicultural society, with their claims about engagement with Asia, and with their understanding of what is typically Australian. It reviews the emergence and development of Asian regionalism in the twentieth century, and considers how Occidentalist strategies have come to be used to exclude and marginalise Australia. A historical survey outlines the origins of representations of Australia in each of the ten Asian countries, detecting the enduring influence both of past perceptions and of the interests of each countrys opinion leaders. Three test cases evaluate these findings in the light of events in the late twentieth century: the first considers the response in the region to the One Nation party, the second compares that with opinion leaders reaction to the crisis in East Timor; and the third presents a synthesis of recent Asian Australian fiction and what it reveals about Asian representations of Australia from inside Australian society. The thesis concludes that Australian policies and practices enable opinion leaders in the ten countries to construct representations of Australia in accordance with their own priorities and concerns, and in response to their agendas of Occidentalism, racism, and regionalism.
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Ho, Hien Thi Public Health & Community Medicine Faculty of Medicine UNSW. "Culture, risk, and vulnerability to blood-borne viruses among ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug users." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Public Health and Community Medicine, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/25501.
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There is increasing concern about hepatitis C virus (HCV) and potential HIV transmission among ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug users (IDUs) in Australia. To date ethnic and cultural differences in vulnerability to blood-borne viruses (BBV) have received little attention and few studies have attempted to explore the role of cultural beliefs and values in influencing injection risk behaviour. This study aimed to systematically explore the cultural beliefs and behavioural practices that appear to place ethnic Vietnamese IDUs at increased risk of BBV infection, identify barriers to this group accessing health and preventive programs, and document antibody HIV and HCV prevalence and associated risk behaviours. The first component of the research consisted of an ethnographic study designed to explore underlying explanatory models of health and illness employed by Vietnamese IDUs and identify cultural influences on risk behaviours and vulnerability to BBVs. These data were subsequently used to inform the development of the instrument used in the second component ??? a cross-sectional survey and collection of capillary blood samples designed to assess risk behaviours and antibody HIV and antibody HCV prevalence. Analysis of data from both components indicates that cultural beliefs and practices influence risk-taking and health-seeking behaviours and suggests pathways through which this influence occurs. Relevant cultural characteristics include those pertaining to spiritual and religious beliefs, the role of the family and traditional Vietnamese family values, cultural scripts of self-control and stoicism, the importance of ???face??? and non-confrontational relationships, trust and obligation, and a reluctance to discuss problems with outsiders. Vulnerability to BBVs is influenced by these cultural characteristics, together with Vietnamese IDUs??? perceptions of risk, knowledge about HIV and HCV, and situational and environmental factors. Main factors contributing to the under-utilisation of health services include the use of self-managed care practices, ambivalence surrounding Western medicine, long waiting times, concerns in relation to confidentiality, stigmatisation of drug use, and limited knowledge of BBVs. The data indicate a need for interventions based on understanding of culturally specific meanings and contexts of health, illness and risk in order to better meet the needs of this vulnerable group.
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Vu, Bach Nga. "Pathways to Depression Among Vietnamese Australian Adolescents." Thesis, Griffith University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365875.
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Previous research has found relatively high rates of depressive symptoms in immigrant Vietnamese adolescents. Two quantitative and one qualitative studies were conducted to examine pathways to depressive symptoms in a sample of 110 Vietnamese Australian adolescents. Study One examined the influence of family functionality, acculturative stress and ethnic identity on the participants' depressive symptoms and whether acculturative stress and ethnic identity contribute to additional variance beyond familial factors. Twenty percent of the sample reported clinical levels of depressive symptoms (compared to 12 % in the normative population). Family cohesion and parental psychological control were significantly associated with depressive symptoms; however, family conflict was not. After accounting for family variables, acculturative stress contributed an additional 10% of the variance in depressive symptoms. The qualitative data also indicated that many Vietnamese Australian adolescents reported having problems with their parents regarding cultural issues. The qualitative data also indicated that many participants reported experiencing discrimination, especially at their school.
In a new sample of 106 Vietnamese Australian adolescents, Study Two examined two pathways to depressive symptoms to understand the precursors of family cohesion and acculturative stress respectively with broader contextual factors from the migration experience. Similar to Study One, 20% of participants in Study Two also reported clinical levels of depressive symptoms. The results of Study Two also confirmed two independent pathways to depression among Vietnamese Australian adolescents: (1) family interactions contributed to low levels of family cohesion which in turn contributed to Vietnamese Australian adolescent depression, and (2) perceived discrimination led to increased acculturative stress and to decreased school connectedness, which in turn affected adolescent depression. The result of the integrated pathway suggested that the interconnection between adolescents' home environment, the school and broader social context simultaneously influence their mental health. The findings of both studies indicate that Vietnamese Australian adolescents are at greater risk for depression. Clearly there is a need for an ecological approach for interventions to prevent depression in Vietnamese Australian adolescents.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Psychology
Faculty of Health
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Flaherty, Christopher James. "Bound for the homeland : Australian and Vietnamese migration systems /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armf575.pdf.
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Nguyen, Le Tuyen. "A new voice: Australian guitar music with Vietnamese cultural influences." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151930.
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For more than fifty years, Australian composers have continued to look for new musical ideas and inspiration in the music of other cultures demonstrating significant interest in the music of China, Bali, Java, Japan and the Pacific. This thesis aims to contribute to the Australasian musical interchanges with a repertoire of guitar music with Vietnamese cultural influences. Based on ethnomusicological research, these creative works will weave together Vietnamese social-cultural contexts and musical materials with Western art music styles, exploring and enhancing the musical-technical possibilities of the guitar as the expressive medium. International collaborations have extended this repertoire to ensemble performances of guitar and Vietnamese traditional instruments; guitar and Vietnamese Gong ensemble; and guitar and percussion from Europe, Africa, India, Tibet, China, Middle East, and the Caribbean. In the process of ethnomusicological research into Vietnamese and French primary sources, this thesis has also made original contributions shedding new light on the changes and development of Southern Vietnamese traditional music in the late nineteenth century to the early decades of the twentieth century. A new voice in Australian music, this creative project is an expression of tradition, innovation and global interaction.
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Chau, Dung. "Attitudes toward educational achievement among parents and students from Anglo-Australian and Vietnamese-Australian backgrounds /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SPS/09spsd916.pdf.
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Dandy, Justine Kate. "IQ and academic achievement among Australian students from Chinese and Vietnamese backgrounds /." Title page, table of contents and summary only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phd1782.pdf.
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Quang, Nguyen Van, and n/a. "Some Australian English-Vietnamese cross-cultural differences in conveying good and bad news." University of Canberra. Education, 1992. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061107.090215.
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This Study examines some cross-cultural differences in conveying good
and bad news in Australian English and Vietnamese. Three major
aspects are taken into consideration: address forms, modality, and
directness-indirectness. Theoretical issues are raised and discussed, and
questionnaire data collected and analysed.
Chapter I shows why it is important and necessary to study crosscultural
differences and sets up the aims of the study.
Chapter II deals with address forms in general and the use of address
forms in conveying good and bad news in the Australian and
Vietnamese cultural contexts in particular..The similarities and
differences between the two systems are also discussed.
Chapter III dwells on modality and its devices: modals, modality
markers, subjunctive mood (in English) and lexico-modal operators for
subjunctive mood (in Vietnamese). The use of these devices in
communicating good and bad news in the two cultures is discussed in
detail.
Chapter IV is concerned theoretically with directness-indirectness, and
the relationship between indirectness and politeness. How directness and
in-directness are actually used to convey good and bad news in
Australian and Vietnamese cultures is also analysed.
Chapter V concludes the Study and suggests implications for ELT.
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Choo, Lay Hiok, and n/a. "Cross-Cultural Collaboration Between Parents and Professionals in Special Education: a Sociocultural and Ethnomethological Investigation." Griffith University. School of Education and Professional Studies, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20051114.154210.
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This thesis examines the issue of parent participation and cultural diversity in the Australian special education context. Previous research in the U.S. had suggested that the low participation by parents of culturally diverse backgrounds was due to cultural barriers that hindered their partnership with professionals. In reviewing and critiquing this previous research, it became clear that the key concepts of collaboration, disability and culture required reconceptualisation. The theoretical tools deployed in this reconceptualisation are drawn from sociocultural theory and ethnomethodology. Seventeen parents of Chinese and Vietnamese backgrounds and 20 professionals were interviewed regarding the provision of special education for children attending either a special school or special education unit. Follow-up interviews were carried out to probe specific issues related to the salience of culture in parent-professional communication, their understanding of disability, and barriers to parent participation. In addition, the communication books that were passed between parents and professionals on a regular basis were obtained for 7 of the children. These books provide a unique insight into the way parents and professionals accomplished the category of Child-with-a-disability during their entries regarding the mundane practicalities of school and home. In suspending judgment about parent-professional collaboration, this thesis adopts the multiple foci of sociocultural analysis to gain a critical understanding of parent-professional relationships through time and across personal, interpersonal, community and institutional settings. Within this framework, this thesis found that parents and professionals prefer and enact a 'communicating' type of parent participation. Their preferences seemed to depend on a range of circumstances such as their work commitments, financial resources, language resources and changing educational goals for the child. The approach taken in the thesis also affords the specification of diverse models of collaboration (e.g. obliging/directing, influencing/complying, respectful distancing, coordinating, collaborating), each of which may be regarded as worthwhile and acceptable in specific local circumstances. This study found that overall the parent-professional relationship was a trust-given one in which participants unproblematically regarded the professionals as experts. The professionals' reports revealed them to be doing accounting work - creating a moral view of the good parent and good professional. The emphasis on context in both sociocultural and ethnomethodological approaches reframes parental and professional discourse about disability as being context-driven. In employing Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) to examine parents' and professionals' descriptions of the child in the communication book and the research interviews, positive as well as negative attributes of the child were obtained. Interpreting the findings in terms of the context of home and school reveals how negative attributes of the child became foregrounded. For example, the orientation to the child as lacking capacity to remember was an outcome of parents and professionals orienting to their (institutional) roles and responsibilities to manage the practicalities of school. The comparison of views reveals strong agreement between the parents and professionals about the child. Interpreting the data based on the task-at-hand of particular data collection settings provides one explanation. For instance, the communication book is a site where parents and professionals align with each other to co-construct a version of the child. Culture is not treated as a static set of traits and behavioural norms that accounts for the communication difficulties between Western-trained professionals and culturally-diverse parents. Rather, culture is theorised in this thesis as an evolving set of semiotic resources and repertoires of practice that participants draw upon and enact in their everyday activities. Using MCA, the ways in which participants deployed cultural categories, the social ends achieved by such deployment, and the attributes they assigned to these cultural categories, are documented. This approach takes cultural difference to be a resource that people use to account for conflicts, rather than as a determining cause of conflict. The documentation of how participants legitimised their explanations to add credibility to their accounts captures their moment-by-moment cultural categorisation work. In comparison to prior research, the significance of this approach is that it looks seriously at the parents' and professionals' mundane and enacted notions of collaboration and participation, the child with a disability, and culture. This thesis has interwoven several data sources and applied complementary analytics in order to reveal and understand some of the everyday complexity of cross-cultural parent professional interaction in the special education context. There is reason to look carefully at the daily achievements of the participants for it is where the intricacies of a phenomenon lie.
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Choo, Lay Hiok. "Cross-Cultural Collaboration Between Parents and Professionals in Special Education: a Sociocultural and Ethnomethological Investigation." Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365667.
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This thesis examines the issue of parent participation and cultural diversity in the Australian special education context. Previous research in the U.S. had suggested that the low participation by parents of culturally diverse backgrounds was due to cultural barriers that hindered their partnership with professionals. In reviewing and critiquing this previous research, it became clear that the key concepts of collaboration, disability and culture required reconceptualisation. The theoretical tools deployed in this reconceptualisation are drawn from sociocultural theory and ethnomethodology. Seventeen parents of Chinese and Vietnamese backgrounds and 20 professionals were interviewed regarding the provision of special education for children attending either a special school or special education unit. Follow-up interviews were carried out to probe specific issues related to the salience of culture in parent-professional communication, their understanding of disability, and barriers to parent participation. In addition, the communication books that were passed between parents and professionals on a regular basis were obtained for 7 of the children. These books provide a unique insight into the way parents and professionals accomplished the category of Child-with-a-disability during their entries regarding the mundane practicalities of school and home. In suspending judgment about parent-professional collaboration, this thesis adopts the multiple foci of sociocultural analysis to gain a critical understanding of parent-professional relationships through time and across personal, interpersonal, community and institutional settings. Within this framework, this thesis found that parents and professionals prefer and enact a 'communicating' type of parent participation. Their preferences seemed to depend on a range of circumstances such as their work commitments, financial resources, language resources and changing educational goals for the child. The approach taken in the thesis also affords the specification of diverse models of collaboration (e.g. obliging/directing, influencing/complying, respectful distancing, coordinating, collaborating), each of which may be regarded as worthwhile and acceptable in specific local circumstances. This study found that overall the parent-professional relationship was a trust-given one in which participants unproblematically regarded the professionals as experts. The professionals' reports revealed them to be doing accounting work - creating a moral view of the good parent and good professional. The emphasis on context in both sociocultural and ethnomethodological approaches reframes parental and professional discourse about disability as being context-driven. In employing Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) to examine parents' and professionals' descriptions of the child in the communication book and the research interviews, positive as well as negative attributes of the child were obtained. Interpreting the findings in terms of the context of home and school reveals how negative attributes of the child became foregrounded. For example, the orientation to the child as lacking capacity to remember was an outcome of parents and professionals orienting to their (institutional) roles and responsibilities to manage the practicalities of school. The comparison of views reveals strong agreement between the parents and professionals about the child. Interpreting the data based on the task-at-hand of particular data collection settings provides one explanation. For instance, the communication book is a site where parents and professionals align with each other to co-construct a version of the child. Culture is not treated as a static set of traits and behavioural norms that accounts for the communication difficulties between Western-trained professionals and culturally-diverse parents. Rather, culture is theorised in this thesis as an evolving set of semiotic resources and repertoires of practice that participants draw upon and enact in their everyday activities. Using MCA, the ways in which participants deployed cultural categories, the social ends achieved by such deployment, and the attributes they assigned to these cultural categories, are documented. This approach takes cultural difference to be a resource that people use to account for conflicts, rather than as a determining cause of conflict. The documentation of how participants legitimised their explanations to add credibility to their accounts captures their moment-by-moment cultural categorisation work. In comparison to prior research, the significance of this approach is that it looks seriously at the parents' and professionals' mundane and enacted notions of collaboration and participation, the child with a disability, and culture. This thesis has interwoven several data sources and applied complementary analytics in order to reveal and understand some of the everyday complexity of cross-cultural parent professional interaction in the special education context. There is reason to look carefully at the daily achievements of the participants for it is where the intricacies of a phenomenon lie.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Education and Professional Studies
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Bui, Thi Bach Yen. "Adolescent depression in Vietnamese migrant families in Australia." Thesis, 2008. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/33025/.
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Due to rapid transitions of life events, changes in essential relationships, low self esteem and
conflict within the family, depression can impact on adolescents in Vietnamese migrant families
in Australia (Beyer & Reid, 2000, as cited in Tran, 2003). These adolescents may suffer from
depression due to their reactions to cultural conflicts they experience in adapting their traditional
family values into the context of Australia society (Vu, 2006). This depression can lead to
serious drug abuse and suicidal ideation (Greenfield at al, 2006; Webber, 2002). In this context,
this thesis discusses impact of the high expectations in maintaining Vietnamese traditional values
in migrant families, and how this can affect adolescents' psychological well being. Therefore, as
this thesis clearly implicates that the conflict between Vietnamese cultural values and Australian
cultural values are associated with Vietnamese adolescent depression, a greater understanding of
the specific needs of Vietnamese adolescents will assist counsellors and health professionals to
provide more effective interventions during their treatment process.
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Burley, Jennifer 1938. "Equal before the law? : the case of Vietnamese refugees in South Australia / Jennifer A. Burley." 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18754.
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Bibliography: leaves 309-330.x, 330 leaves : map ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Politics, 1996
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Burley, Jennifer 1938. "Equal before the law? : the case of Vietnamese refugees in South Australia / Jennifer A. Burley." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18754.
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Flaherty, Christopher James. "Bound for the homeland : Australian and Vietnamese migration systems." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/110885.
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Nguyen, Thanh Cong. "Recommendations and guidelines for designing Vietnamese Buddhist temples in Australia." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/115702.
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This thesis examines the design of Buddhist temples in traditional Vietnamese style and characteristics within the context of the Australian environment. The legends of the Buddha and his teaching are described with regard to the symbolism in temple components and the meaning of temple form. Buddhist temple architecture in Asia is examined. The study also compares Vietnamese pagodas with temples in China.Thesis (M.Arch.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Architecture, 1995
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Le, Phuc Thien. "Transnational variation in linguistic politeness in Vietnamese : Australia and Vietnam." Thesis, 2011. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/17945/.
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Over the past three decades, the Vietnamese language has undergone substantial changes, both in Vietnam, and in diasporic contexts such as Australia. Yet the nature of the variation resulting from those changes at the sociopragmatic level in expressing politeness is little researched.
The question of whether there are differences in the politeness expressed by Vietnamese speakers living in Vietnam and Australia is the focus of this research.
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Loughry, Maryanne 1955. "Psychological and social adaptation of Vietnamese refugee adolescents in South Australia." 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09arml887.pdf.
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Nguyen, Thy Tan Lan. "Code choice in the Vietnamese community in Sydney." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151010.
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Approximately 0.9% of the Australian population speak Vietnamese at home (2001 Census), putting Vietnamese in the group of minority languages that have the most speakers in the country. Like other migrant communities, the question of what is happening to the native language of this socially dynamic and relatively young migrant community due to linguistic and socio-cultural contact is inherently an interesting one and will contribute to the long-term study of this community and its language. The data of this thesis was collected during fieldwork undertaken in Sydney (which hosts more than one-third of the overall Vietnamese population) and Vietnam by the researcher in 2007. The purpose of these field trips was to study the idiosyncratic linguistic features of the Vietnamese Australians' speech and how the individuals in this community use their linguistic repertoire (Vietnamese and English) strategically. The field trip in Vietnam took place when the researcher followed a three-generation Vietnamese family who went back to Vietnam for a two-week holiday. The opportunity to study language behaviour of a three-generation family allowed me to obtain valuable insights into the role of older family members in the maintenance of the native language as well as traditional social and cultural values. Among idiosyncratic linguistic features found in the participants' speech include the tendency of using English personal pronouns in lieu of Vietnamese addressing/referring terms in Viet speech and the opposite tendency of using Vietnamese free forms of address in English discourse. These practices provide great insights into people's perceptions of traditional social and cultural values as well as Australian social and cultural values. They also provide evidence for contemporary linguistic debates.
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Bui, Ho. "Exploring stressors that affect Vietnamese caregivers raising their children in Australia." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/128644.
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This item is only available electronically.While a body of research exists detailing challenges that Vietnamese caregivers face when settling in Australia, there are no empirical studies conducted on Vietnamese caregivers’ stressors that affect their children’s wellbeing in Australia. This qualitative study aimed to explore Vietnamese caregivers’ experience in raising their children during a period of settlement in Australia, with at least one child in the age range between seven and nine. Guided by the relevant literature, semi-structured interview questions relating to how these caregivers raise their children in the context of parenting practices were posed to the ten participants. Thematic analysis was used to identify patterns of data reflecting their experience on raising their children. Six themes were identified: freedom, academic achievement, education at home, parental interaction, managing children’s behaviour/attitudes and their children and language preference. Novel findings of the study include caregivers’ ability to adapt to the host culture, their parenting style, and their beliefs and goals. A degree of conflict between caregivers and their children depended upon their children’s age and their English language barrier. It is suggested that conducting mixed methods research would test the reliability of this study and offer a more comprehensive understanding of the research question.
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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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Lam, David Taiwan, University of Western Sydney, College of Business, and School of Economics and Finance. "The economic impact of Asian migrants under Australian migration policy." 2006. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/14469.
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For many years, migration has been intensively politicised in Australia. Political parties have different stands about migration and the government has raised its transparency to such a high level that the public is aware of developments and policy directions in migration for the present and future years. It was realized that well-educated migrants with skills and experience are able to accomplish better employment prospects and settlement outcomes. Skilled migration has therefore been emphasized. This thesis consists of a literature review on some of the motivations that support the objectives of migration over past years, outcomes brought by migration and overview of the migration program and main categories under skilled migration. As skilled migration has been placed with more emphasis since the 1990s and a larger quota has been allocated to facilitate younger migrants with the skills and expertise that are of use to Australia, it has become necessary to assess the economic impact brought by some of these skilled migrants. Coinciding with the emphasis of skilled migration, the trend of settler arrivals has changed so that Asians have increased their presence in Australia and the focus of this thesis is narrowed down to assess the economic impact of Asian groups. A description of general Asian culture and characteristics is also included in the literature review. Although Asians in Australia maintain their own cultures and some common characteristics, I have chosen the two biggest groups, namely Chinese and Vietnamese, to explore and identify their differences and economic contributions. Apart from ethnicity factor, other elements specifically educational attainment, occupational achievements, labour force status in which they have participated, age, English language proficiency, years of arrival and hours worked are tested for significance in enabling Chinese and Vietnamese migrants to earn income. This study also examines whether higher qualifications would increase the prospects of employability.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Nicholson, Gavin John. "Succession Planning Management (SPM): A Case Study of Vietnamese Family Owned Business in Australia." Thesis, 2018. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/36970/.
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Succession Planning Management (SPM) is the process of management ownership leadership transition from incumbent to successor. SPM is directly related to governance for family owned businesses (FOB’s) and an effective succession plan helps to provide a degree of confidence that is necessary for the proper functioning of a market economy. As FOB’s contribute some thirty-three percent of the nominal gross domestic product (GDP) to Australia’s social and economic environment, effective SPM is clearly an important consideration in ensuring the continuity of the family business structure.
This study reports a case study of succession planning management in eight Vietnamese family owned businesses in Australia. In 1975, people from Vietnam formed the first mass migration of Asian people to Australia and have since established themselves in business, politics and education. This study presents a dynamic conceptualisation of Vietnamese family owned business, illustrating SPM practices in the community as reflective of three rising levels of influence: succession planning, that it is defined initially by the founder’s personality and experience, by wider community influences and then by the selection, preparation and the successors elevation to the head of the family business. The successors describe how Vietnamese cultural beliefs shaped their transition into the family business and their efforts to be accepted as a competent choice by the founder, to be accepted as the patriarch of the family, and to be seen in the wider business community as having the same business acumen and social standing as the founder.
The collected research data, identifies push and pull factors that are linked to contextual, relational and business transition factors and are reorganised into three action orientated themes: to control, to thrive and to survive. These themes contribute to the formulation of a suggested SPM framework for Vietnamese FOB. Finally, the study illustrates SPM transition from the founder (1st generation) to the current generation (2nd) and provides an extension for future research (3rd generation) for SPM in Vietnamese FOB in Australia.
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Roberts, Mark. "Citizenship and Political Participation of Vietnamese-Australians in Melbourne." Thesis, 1998. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/33991/.
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This thesis examines Vietnamese-Australians' attitudes towards citizenship and political
participation in Australian society. Concepts of citizenship that seek to go beyond
multiculturalism provide the framework, and quahtative interviews are used to gather the
research data. Information-rich subjects were actively sought, so the Hst of interviewees
includes people who are relatively well educated and in positions of some leadership. In
that sense, it does not mirror the overall Vietnamese-Australian community. However,
these people can think deeply about the issues under examination in this thesis and their
contributions have been extremely valuable.
Discussion centres on citizenship and barriers to participation, the Vietnamese
community associations, and the 'friendship' agreement between District 1 of Ho Chi
Minh City and the City of Maribyrnong. Analysis of the interview data reveals that
Vietnamese-Australians value citizenship and are generally aware of rights and
responsibilities. All Vietnamese-Australians retain an emotional attachment to Vietnam,
while some feel an even stronger political obligation towards their homeland. For some
people, this could detract from their participation, as has been shown by the strong
reaction of the 'official' Vietnamese community to the 'friendship' arrangement
organised by Mai Ho, as Mayor of the City of Maribyrnong. Interviews reveal a range of
responses concerning this incident, illustrating that the Vietnamese-Australian
community is growing in complexity and diversity. It appears that there are educated,
second-generation Vietnamese-Australians who are growing into adulthood with ideas
for the friture of the Vietnamese-Australian community. Politicians such as Mai Ho and
Sang Nguyen have overcome enormous obstacles to achieve positions as public figures,
however, data from interviewees suggests that their main role has been symbolic. They
have shown that it is possible to participate, and for others to follow. These new
representatives will have an Australian education, a more sophisticated command of
English, and an awareness of an expanded citizenship that allows for greater
inclusiveness. While using their skills for the Vietnamese-Australian community, they are
also likely to be involved in the Australia-Vietnam relationship, and in contributing
another voice to the broader Australian society.
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O'Halloran, Michael. "Working conditions of Vietnamese-Australian people with limited English language skills." Thesis, 1999. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32976/.
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This dissertation examines a number of aspects of the Vietnamese-Australian community
and traces their progress from the mid-1970s when the bulk of these migrants were
refugees. The rates of unemployment over the past two decades for this group are the
focus of much research and the results of this research are discussed at length. Similarly,
the types of employment that these people entered are studied in depth by eminent
researchers, and these results are also discussed.
The main focus of this study, however, concerns the working conditions of members of
the Vietnamese-Australian community who are not very proficient in the English
language. A number of these people were interviewed for this project and produced some
very important data. The interviewees talked of their working conditions, which included
their rates of pay, and the entitlements that they should legally receive, but do not. There
are a perceived number of reasons for the plight of these workers, and the people who
endure such pay and conditions discuss these reasons.
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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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Taylor, Davina. "The Journey Through Childbirth Pain: The Experiences of Indian and Vietnamese Women Living in Australia." Thesis, 2020. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/40668/.
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Background: Pain associated with childbirth is severe and women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds tend to have less than optimal access to pain management during this period. This lack of access is a concern, as in Victoria, Australia, one in three pregnant women has been born overseas. Many are from India or Vietnam and speak languages other than English. At the same time, there is little research in Australia considering childbirth pain from the perspectives of immigrant women.
Aims: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of childbirth pain (including during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum) from the perspective of Indian and Vietnamese women living in Australia.
Design: A qualitative approach, using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), was employed to explore participants’ pain experiences. IPA was chosen because it moves beyond pure description to explore the deeper meaning of experiences.
Methods: Twenty-four pregnant women born in India or Vietnam participated in two in-depth interviews (prenatal and the postpartum).
Findings: Two core themes, a culture in transition and universal experiences, emerged through the trajectory of pregnancy, birth and the postpartum. Cultural factors influenced participants’ information seeking, responses to labour pain, and decision making about pain relief. Similar factors shaped the postpartum experiences, with participants deciding whether to follow cultural customs that were aimed at preventing pain in later life. Ultimately, decisions about childbirth pain were informed by a fusion of personal choice and cultural
customs within the background of a new environment.
The second theme indicated that women, regardless of ethnicity and culture, had similar experiences. All desired reassurance as the birth approached. Women who had positive psychosocial support during birth and were satisfied with their experience of pain felt empowered. When women felt inadequately supported and fearful, they made decisions which later led to regret, disappointment and dissatisfaction with their experience of childbirth.
Conclusion: Overall, this study has provided new insights into the experience of childbirth pain. Specifically, women from India and Vietnam experienced a transition in culture whilst preparing for and managing childbirth pain. It is anticipated that the knowledge gained from this study will enrich our understanding of this experience and generate better awareness of pregnant Indian and Vietnamese women’s needs related to childbirth pain. This thesis provides foundational information to support healthcare professionals to understand the dynamic landscape in which women from CALD backgrounds prepare for and manage childbirth pain. This understanding will inform future decisions. Ultimately, this information may help to inform care and to provide meaningful support for immigrant women.
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Tran, Mai Xuan Thi. "Parent and teenager conflicts in Vietnamese refugee families." Thesis, 2003. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32995/.
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Lam, David Taiwan. "The economic impact of Asian migrants under Australian migration policy." Thesis, 2006. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/14469.
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For many years, migration has been intensively politicised in Australia. Political parties have different stands about migration and the government has raised its transparency to such a high level that the public is aware of developments and policy directions in migration for the present and future years. It was realized that well-educated migrants with skills and experience are able to accomplish better employment prospects and settlement outcomes. Skilled migration has therefore been emphasized. This thesis consists of a literature review on some of the motivations that support the objectives of migration over past years, outcomes brought by migration and overview of the migration program and main categories under skilled migration. As skilled migration has been placed with more emphasis since the 1990s and a larger quota has been allocated to facilitate younger migrants with the skills and expertise that are of use to Australia, it has become necessary to assess the economic impact brought by some of these skilled migrants. Coinciding with the emphasis of skilled migration, the trend of settler arrivals has changed so that Asians have increased their presence in Australia and the focus of this thesis is narrowed down to assess the economic impact of Asian groups. A description of general Asian culture and characteristics is also included in the literature review. Although Asians in Australia maintain their own cultures and some common characteristics, I have chosen the two biggest groups, namely Chinese and Vietnamese, to explore and identify their differences and economic contributions. Apart from ethnicity factor, other elements specifically educational attainment, occupational achievements, labour force status in which they have participated, age, English language proficiency, years of arrival and hours worked are tested for significance in enabling Chinese and Vietnamese migrants to earn income. This study also examines whether higher qualifications would increase the prospects of employability.
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Adam, Noor. "Language and technology barriers among NESB carers when accessing the NDIS : a randomised survey of Vietnamese carers in Australia." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:60136.
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Carers from a non-English speaking background (NESB) require the support services offered by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) to enable them to offer competent care to their loved ones. Yet, access to disability support services offered by NDIS remains low among NESB carers. Specifically, language barriers and technological limitations appear to be key factors that limit access to NDIS services. Presently, literature that has examined how the two factors curtail access to NDIS services is scant. This quantitative study aims to address this literature gap by examining how these two factors combined limit access to NDIS services based on data drawn from a sample of NESB carers, specifically Vietnamese carers, using a structured survey questionnaire. Findings from the study offer insight into how both language barriers and technological limitations affect access to NDIS services, and also act as a stepping-stone towards addressing the challenges faced by NESB carers, thus enabling them to determine what makes a ‘good life’ for their loved ones.
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Nguyen, Hang. "Re-negotiating radio : Vietnamese community media in a time of change." Thesis, 2007. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/33023/.
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The present study aims to find out more about the function and potential of community
based Vietnamese language radio in Melbourne. The research took place in three
stages. The first stage explored broad patterns of media consumption among
Vietnamese-Australians. The second stage required the profiling of all existing
community radio based Vietnamese language programs in Melbourne. The final stage
involved an in-depth discussion with members of the Vietnamese community based
around a "radio scenario", where a sample of participants were asked to assume the
role of radio producer for an imagined three hour Vietnamese language program to be
broadcast on a community radio station.
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Le, Duy Tran Hoang. "University students’ mental health in Australia and Vietnam: the role of attachment style and social integration." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1438202.
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Masters Research - Master of Philosophy (MPhil)Recent changes in Vietnam’s higher education system and challenges at university put Vietnamese students’ mental health at risk. In the psychological literature, social integration and relationship expectancies (attachment styles) are predictive of mental health among Western university students. However, these patterns are unclear for an Asian population, like the Vietnamese, who are thought to have a ‘collective’ or ‘interdependent’ view of the self (interdependent self-construal). The present study aimed to investigate the impact of social integration and attachment insecurities (anxiety and avoidance) on the psychological symptoms of Australian and Vietnamese undergraduates and how their self-construal profiles explain potential differences in results across cultures. Participants were 542 first- and second-year university students (245 Australian and 297 Vietnamese) who completed self-report measures administered online. Data showed cross-cultural measurement invariance only for the mental health concept and poor psychometric properties for the self-construal scale, leading to separate analyses for each cultural group and the exclusion of the self-construal factor from the statistical analyses. Overall, the results emphasised the role of attachment anxiety and the cognitive aspect of social integration in student’s mental health. Specifically, attachment insecurities were predictive of social integration among students, although this effect was less consistent for attachment avoidance. Attachment anxiety influenced student’s mental health both directly and indirectly through social integration. The impact of attachment avoidance on mental health was indirect and only significant for the Vietnamese data. The cognitive aspect of social integration directly predicted psychological symptoms and played the main role in mediating the attachment – mental health link. These roles appeared weaker and less consistent for the behavioural side of social integration. The discussion addresses differences in the mental health profile and the conception of attachment across cultures, possible explanations for variables’ interactions especially in the Vietnamese data, and implications of the current study on mental health services, university policies, and future research.
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Foley, Paul. "From hell to paradise : the stages of Vietnamese refugee migration under the comprehensive plan of action." Phd thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147206.
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Broinowski, Alison Elizabeth. "About face : Asian representations of Australia." Phd thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/46227.
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This thesis considers the ways in which Australia has been publicly represented in ten Asian societies in the twentieth century. It shows how these representations are at odds with Australian opinion leaders’ assertions about being a multicultural society, with their claims about engagement with Asia, and with their understanding of what is ‘typically’ Australian. It reviews the emergence and development of Asian regionalism in the twentieth century, and considers how Occidentalist strategies have come to be used to exclude and marginalise Australia. A historical survey outlines the origins of representations of Australia in each of the ten Asian countries, detecting the enduring influence both of past perceptions and of the interests of each country’s opinion leaders. Three test cases evaluate these findings in the light of events in the late twentieth century: the first considers the response in the region to the One Nation party, the second compares that with opinion leaders’ reaction to the crisis in East Timor; and the third presents a synthesis of recent Asian Australian fiction and what it reveals about Asian representations of Australia from inside Australian society. The thesis concludes that Australian policies and practices enable opinion leaders in the ten countries to construct representations of Australia in accordance with their own priorities and concerns, and in response to their agendas of Occidentalism, racism, and regionalism.
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Thiravong, Eliane. "The development of self-identification in Chinese-Vietnamese children in Australia : the influence of family language practices and changing social environments." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:67071.
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This thesis investigates the development of children’s self-identification in minority bi-ethnic migrant families in relation to their multilingual and multicultural practices, within the context of exogamous families in Australia. While these bi-ethnic partnerships implicitly or explicitly implement policies and strategies to encourage the use of home languages, there is scant understanding of the dynamic interrelation between the development of identity in multi-ethnic children and their language development in changing social environments. Bi- and multilingual children’s language acquisition, family language policy and identity issues have been extensively studied internationally. However, these studies do not systematically investigate the connections between identity development in multilingual children, their respective family’s linguistic and cultural input, and their social environments. This thesis examines family language practices and socio-environmental factors impacting young children’s identity construction, to complement previous research on Australian bilingual children. It seeks to contribute to the current debate between essentialist (psychological) versus non-essentialist (socio-linguistic) identity issues by examining children’s expression of self in response to the three languages in their environment, including their families’ referential practices. It also observes the effects of different social contexts and changing circumstances on children’s self-identification. The design of this research is longitudinal, as it aims to gather data from two Australian Cantonese-Vietnamese families over three years. The key finding of this study is that children construct their identity in a dynamic and context-bound way. Results identify three major influencing factors as playing a role in the children’s self-identification: 1) family language input and practices; 2) family ideologies, cultural practices, and family networks, as well as the migrant community and 3) peers and the childcare/school environments. This thesis contributes new empirical data to existing research on family language policy and adds new language pairs to the field of heritage language maintenance and child identity in the Australian context. The data suggests that self-identification develops in a context-bound way parallel to the context-bound language development proposed in Qi and Di Biase (2020). It reveals that children’s self-identification grows not merely under the influence of their family’s linguistic and cultural practices, but also adjusts to changing circumstances and pressures from peers and adult role models in the dominant environment. These findings may play a role in the preservation of heritage languages and family wellbeing.
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Tran, Hoa Thi. "The development of integrated chemistry-based experiments implications for the teaching of environmental chemistry in the Vietnamese context." Thesis, 2000. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/17903/.
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A survey of environmental chemistry laboratory experiments in the Journal of Chemical
Education (ACS) and Education in Chemistry (RCS) has been carried out from 1969 to
the present. The experiments have been categorized as being related to the areas of
either air, water or soil. Over the same period of time, a similar survey has been carried
out for commonly used environmental chemistry textbooks, whereby the relative
number of pages have been assessed which are devoted to the same areas. The data
obtained from both of these analyses indicate that the area of soil is seriously underrepresented
in the environmental chemistry curriculum. Further analysis of this material
also highlights the failure of many experiments to reflect "real world" laboratory
processes such as sample preparation, data analysis and quality control/assurance. To
help alleviate these deficiencies, a strategy was designed to develop several soil-related
laboratory experiments which would not only reflect real world practices in a developed
country such as Australia, but which would also be appropriate for educational
programs in a developing country such as Vietnam. In order to gain the necessary skills
and experience, the author undertook a five month work experience program at the
Australian Government Analytical Laboratories (AGAL). The program focussed on the
routine analysis of hydrocarbons in soil samples. A programmed schedule allowed the
author to experience all aspects of the procedure, from sampling through to reporting.
Following the work experience program, the author undertook a visit to her home
country of Vietnam in order to conduct a modified Dephi survey of leading Vietnamese
educators, considered expert in the area of environmental chemistry education. The
survey was constructed to assess the requirements for the design and implementation of
undergraduate environmental chemistry experiments in the Vietnamese context. The
Delphi study successfully converged after two rounds. Both the AGAL experience and
the results of the Delphi survey have been used to formulate environmental chemistry
laboratory experiments which help address the deficiency of soil-related experiments in
the current curriculum, reflect the professional skills of real world environmental
scientists, and which are well-suited for implementation in developing countries such as
Vietnam. Attention has also been paid to international requirements for environmental
education and to the advantages of the integrated approach with respect to the different
areas of chemistry.
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Nguyen, Sandra Yung. "Comparison of Sleep Attitudes and Beliefs among Older Adult Vietnamese Migrants and Australians with and without Insomnia." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/35046/.
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Sleep is an essential part of human life and is associated with both physical and mental health. When, where and how people sleep is known to vary across different cultures (Glaskin and Chenhall, 2013) but very little is documented about whether there are significant differences in attitudes and beliefs about sleep across different cultures or different ethnic groups. Previous research has found that both dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes about sleep and poor sleep hygiene knowledge can contribute to sleeping problems, especially for those with insomnia. As non-pharmacological treatments for insomnia often include addressing cognitive aspects related to sleep it is important that there is a good understanding of how sleep beliefs and attitudes may vary across groups and individuals, including possible ethnic differences. However, there has been no research, to the author’s knowledge, investigating the possible differences in sleep attitudes and beliefs between older adult Vietnamese migrants and Australians. This study aimed to examine the dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes about sleep, sleep hygiene knowledge and sleep perceptions between these two ethnic groups. Sex differences on the dependent variables were also of interest. Insomnia status was addressed as it is a possible confound. The participants consisted of 207 subjects (100 Vietnamese and 107 Australians). There were 36 males and 54 females for the Vietnamese sample with a mean age of 65.50 years (SD = 5.62). The Australian sample consisted of 50 males and 57 females with a mean age of 68.82 years (SD = 7.32).
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Nguyen, Nhung. "The role of intergroup attitudes in speech perception." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:47261.
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This thesis pursued the overall hypothesis that listeners use abstract information whenever it is available in perceiving speech. It also attempted to evaluate the role of socio-indexical information in speech perception and, in particular, the possibility of further abstractions over abstract social categories. These abstract social categories can be abstracted over two sources of socio-indexical information: (1) knowledge and/or feelings from direct speech exposure; and (2) beliefs and/or feelings from indirect sources about speech. Abstractions of both types were predicted to have a relationship with listeners’ perception of speech, sometimes interacting with each other in a complex manner. These predictions were made within the episodic approach and the hybrid approach to speech perception (including the Bayesian framework), tested over the course of three perception experiments with Australia-born listeners (reported in Chapters 2, 3, and 4), and had implications for speech perception theories. In addition to theoretical advances, the thesis also proposes several methodological advances in the areas of experimentation and data analysis, such as the attempt to quantify formant variability while taking the magnitude of formant means into account, the quantification of stereotypical expectations via Bayesian formalism, the quantification of prejudice, and the use of Australian-accented English and Vietnamese-accented English as speech stimuli in the vowel perception experiments to serve different purposes. Overall, the results in this thesis suggest that high-level abstractions over social categories are possible, and that Bayesian principles need to be integrated into the hybrid approach to explain all possible speech perception scenarios, some of which involves highly abstract social factors.
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Poole, Michael Dean. "Illicit imaginings : an Australian history of Vietnamese stories retold." Phd thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148748.
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Blanchette, Gisèle. "Neurasthénie sous influence? : l'appropriation d'une maladie «moderne» par les classes moyennes du Viêt Nam colonial (1925-1945)." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13682.
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Au tournant du XXe siècle, la neurasthénie – ou épuisement nerveux – est devenue une maladie populaire en Occident et jusqu’au Japon en raison de son association avec la modernité. De nombreux rapprochements ont été faits entre ce diagnostic introduit en 1869 aux États-Unis et certaines maladies contemporaines comme la dépression, le syndrome de fatigue chronique, l’épuisement professionnel et toute la panoplie des maladies causées par le stress. Les transformations socioculturelles qu’a connues le Viêt Nam sous colonisation, principalement au cours des décennies 1920 et 1930, ont été propices à la dissémination du langage des nerfs et à l’appropriation du diagnostic de neurasthénie. Ce mémoire de maîtrise en histoire se penche sur les transformations sociales survenues sous le gouvernement colonial français, dont l’urbanisation et l’instruction publique, au milieu desquelles ont émergé les nouvelles classes moyennes urbaines qui ont adopté le diagnostic de neurasthénie. À partir de la presse vietnamienne de la période, ce travail met l’accent sur l’appropriation, les causes et les traitements de la maladie. Utilisant une approche comparant la neurasthénie en Occident, au Japon et en Chine, pour ensuite présenter son entrée au Viêt Nam, il montre que la domination et donc la subalternité ont compliqué l’accès des colonisés au diagnostic de la maladie moderne neurasthénie, de même qu’à la modernité. Il fournit toutefois un éclairage sur les débuts de l’histoire du diagnostic, encore utilisé de nos jours au Viêt Nam, d’une maladie appelée « la maladie de l’époque ».At the turn of the 20th century, the diagnostic term neurasthenia – or nervous exhaustion coined by American neurologist George Miller Beard in 1869 – was associated with modern civilization. Hence, the term rapidly spread to most Western countries and as far as Japan. Our contemporary language of stress, burn-out, depression and chronic fatigue syndrome has a history that goes back to the birth of the term neurasthenia. As Vietnam underwent deep sociocultural transformations during the French colonial era, especially during the 1920s and 1930s, life conditions became increasingly conducive to the dissemination of the language of nerves and to the appropriation of the term neurasthenia by middle class Vietnamese. This Master’s thesis on the early history of neurasthenia in Vietnam looks into the social transformations effected by the French colonial government, mainly urbanization and public education, which lead to the emergence of a new vietnamese urban middle class. Based on the vietnamese press of the period, it analyzes the appropriation of the diagnostic term neurasthenia by the Vietnamese, the causes to which they attributed neurasthenia, as well as the main treatments proposed by Vietnamese doctors. After comparing how neurasthenia was appropriated in a few Western countries, as well as in Japan and China, and then showing its appropriation in Vietnam, it shows that colonized status meant a somehow limited access to the “modern” disease neurasthenia, somehow similar to the access to “modernity”, due to political domination. The thesis then sheds light on the early history of a diagnosis still used nowadays in Vietnam, of a disease still called there “the disease of our time”.
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Ngo, Boi Huyen. "Memory and water : a Vietnamese Australian family's sense of loss and home." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/133383.
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University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.To fully comprehend the issue of migration is to go beyond understanding migration as movement from one place to the other, such as crossing international borders. It is to look into whole life histories which includes the mundane everyday life of a migrant. This thesis addresses the need to understand the everyday experience with memory for heightened awareness and empathy within society towards refugees. Inspired by the methodology of auto-ethnography and the writing of family history, this non-traditional thesis will explore the intergenerational memories of my Vietnamese Australian refugee family through the poetic device of water to explore the research question: How does exploring the presence of water within Vietnamese Australian memories of loss and homeliness create new approaches for understanding migration in Australia? As the fluid composition of water defies objectivity, migration is fluid, intangible and seeps into the subjective way of being in the world. This thesis uses migrant memories of water as a tool for encapsulating the migrant experiences of a family. Complex ideas and experiences of loss and homeliness within Australia and Vietnam would demonstrate how nuanced the migrant experiences are. The thesis contests the idea of home as a comfortable site of belonging. Rather, home is a site of becoming, constantly changing and oscillating between belonging and un-belonging. For many Vietnamese Australian refugees, water was not only the means to escape one’s homeland to another form of homeland - by boat - but is a part of sensory experiences of feeling both at home and displaced within Australian landscapes. The Vietnamese word of water, nước, is the exact same word for country, evoking a linguistic and cultural link to this natural matter to the collective emotional and cultural sense of belonging. The thesis explores various themes, activities, and landscapes surrounding ideas of water. This includes rivers, fishing, ocean deaths, water buffalo, boats and beaches. Each of these themes opens up new ways of thinking about the nature of forced migration within the field of Environmental Humanities and Cultural Studies. The contested nature of home becomes layered and complex when political meanings around what it means to be a migrant living in a country that was invaded and dispossessed from the Aboriginal people are explored. It challenges ideas that legitimise colonialism through violent ways of asserting power, governance and border controls in Australia. This thesis explores intergenerational experiences of migration through memories, both lived and transmitted through stories.