The Migration Of Vietnamese Immigrants In The US

Before the 1960’s the Vietnamese immigration population in the United States was very small. The migration of the Vietnamese “occurred in three waves”(2). The first wave of immigrants came into the United States after the Vietnam War in 1975. The first group consisted of 125,000 refugees “who had close ties with the toppling South Vietnamese government and were largely skilled professionals” (2). The Vietnamese population in the US had kept low until the second wave of immigrants came to the United States in 1979 (2). Which grew into the 1980’s with close to 200,000 Vietnamese immigrants (1). The second wave of immigrants were known as the “boat people” since they came from rural areas and were typically had a lower level of education- “many