It was 50 years ago this summer that hundreds of Vietnamese refugees escaping communism began flocking into Pensacola to build new lives. Most spoke little to no English, but in that half-century they ...
In 1989, Kristine Nguyen had freshly immigrated to San Francisco after living in a refugee camp in Thailand. “I came here with my little brother from escaping from Vietnam by boat,” Kristine said, ...
While much of the conversation around immigration focuses on the foreign-born population, second-generation Americans are also central to understanding the story of immigration. And new data shows in ...
Hundreds of Vietnamese refugees escaping communism began flocking to Pensacola 50 years ago According to U.S. Census data, less than 3% of Escambia County's population is Asian, which includes Vietnam ...