精品管理文档A Quintessential Collision Vietnamese identities in modern Australia.docVIP

Vietnamese in Australia: a generation of settlement and adaptation Andrew Jakubowicz University of Technology Sydney May 2004 Abstract The Vietnamese arrival and integration into Australia represents a quintessential case of cultures in collision. In 1975 there was effectively no Vietnamese presence. Over the next twenty five years the community grew to over two hundred thousand members. Before 1975 Vietnam and Australia barely knew each other – except through the prism of the American War. By 2001 Generation 2 were a significant part of Australian political, economic and cultural life. The V