Vietnamese Family Analysis

Thirdly, the assimilation process for Vietnamese families into the Australian society started from differences in the aspects of coping the comprehension in terms of nature and degree. The Australian system has pressured many Vietnamese families to adapt to the new environment by causing them to be able to determine the goal and structure of Australia (Broderick 1993). The self-regulating acts may lead Vietnamese family to imply some changes in their daily life pattern, especially their family structure.
Migration and immigration have been affected on the composition of Vietnamese families. The difference time arriving in Australia meant that refugees’ family members have been separated each-others for months or years until the reunions; many
This range of families can be found in Australia but is not as common as in Vietnam. Thomas and Balnaves (1993) point out that 68 percent of the elderly Vietnamese and Vietnamese of Chinese background who were sponsored by their adult children to come to Australia lived with the sponsoring couple and the grandchildren. However, the elderly are not keep the same role as in Vietnam such as look after the household. They cannot depend on their adult children but independent; therefore, it is not granted in Australia (Nguyen and Ho, Families and cultural diversity in Australia). Furthermore, disagreement sometimes happens in an overcrowded family (Tran 1991). Therefore, some elderly decided to live separate from their children individually or in couples. Also in the research on some elderly participants of Thomas and Balnaves' (1993) study 4 per cent lived by
After the Vietnam War, conscious of the responsibility to Vietnam, the aid was sent to reconstruction from the Australia government. (http://www.skwirk.com).
During the escape of Vietnamese away from persecution, many refugees came to Australia had left their family behind in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, the Australian and Vietnamese governments set up the Vietnamese Family Migration Program to help reunite separate families (http://www.skwirk.com/). In fact, in 1980, there were 12,915 Vietnamese arrive in Australia and in one decade later, the number of refugees was rising to 124,800 people (http://www.abc.net.au/news/).
Besides that, in marketing, Australia ranks in the top 15 of Vietnam’s most important trade partners in both directions (UN, Comtrade Database, Dec 2014). Australia’s main exports to Vietnam are timber products, plastic materials, oil and steel scraps; while it mainly imports crude oil, telephones and components, seafood and cashew nuts from Vietnam (The Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam posts record trade surplus with Australia, 31 Aug