Etnis Vietnam di Amerika Serikat (bahasa Vietnam: Người Mỹ gốc Việt) adalah orang-orang Amerika Serikat yang memiliki darah keturunan Vietnam.[5] Orang Vietnam-Amerika merupakan etnis Vietnam terbesar dari segi jumlah yang berada diluar negara Vietnam. Jumlah etnis Vietnam-Amerika mencapai lebih dari setengah populasi orang diaspora Vietnam (bahasa Vietnam: Người Việt hải ngoại) di seluruh dunia. Orang Vietnam-Amerika merupakan etnis Asia-Amerika terbesar keempat di Amerika Serikat setelah etnis Tionghoa-Amerika, India-Amerika, dan Filipino-Amerika.

Vietnam-Amerika
Người Mỹ gốc Việt
Jumlah populasi
2.067.527[1]
0,8% dari total populasi penduduk Amerika Serikat (2016)
Daerah dengan populasi signifikan
Bahasa
Bahasa Vietnam, bahasa Inggris Amerika, bahasa Perancis (generasi lama), bahasa Mandarin (bahasa Kanton, bahasa Teochew, bahasa Hokkien), Hmong
Agama
43% Buddha, 30% Katolik Roma
20% Tidak beragama, 6% Protestan (2012)[3][4]
Kelompok etnik terkait
Etnis Vietnam, Orang Vietnam di luar negera, Vietnam-Kanada, Vietnam-Australia, Asia- Amerika, Tionghoa-Amerika, Hmong Amerika

Imigrasi orang-orang dari wilayah Vietnam Selatan ke Amerika Serikat terjadi paska Perang Vietnam di tahun 1975. Pada mulanya kedatangan orang Vietnam ke Amerika Serikat adalah sebagai pengungsi perang. Mereka bermigrasi ke Amerika serikat melalui jalur laut dengan mengendarai perahu dengan tujuan utama untuk menghindari penganiyaan dan atau untuk alasan ekonomi. Lebih dari setengah populasi etnis Vietnam-Amerika menetap di negara bagian California dan Texas.[6]

Sejarah

The history of Vietnamese Americans is fairly recent. Before 1975, most Vietnamese residing in the US were the wives and children of American servicemen or academics. Records[7][8] indicate that a few Vietnamese (including Ho Chi Minh) arrived and performed menial work during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. According to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 650 Vietnamese arrived as immigrants between 1950 and 1974, but the figure excludes students, diplomats, and military trainees. The April 30, 1975 fall of Saigon, which ended the Vietnam War, prompted the first large-scale wave of immigration; many with close ties to America or the government South Vietnam government feared communist reprisals. Most of the first-wave immigrants were well-educated, financially comfortable, and proficient in English.[9] According to 1975 US State Department data, more than 30 percent of the heads of first-wave households were medical professionals or technical managers, 16.9 percent worked in transportation, and 11.7 percent had clerical or sales jobs in Vietnam. Less than 5 percent were fishermen or farmers.[10]

 
Vietnamese refugees at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, during the late 1970s

The evacuation of the immigrants was organized in three major ways. The week before Saigon fell, 15,000 people left on scheduled flights followed by an additional 80,000 also evacuated by air. The last group was carried on U.S. Navy ships.[11] During the spring of 1975 125,000 people left South Vietnam, followed by more than 5,000 in 1976-1977.[10] They arrived at reception camps in the Philippines and Guam before being transferred to temporary housing at U.S. military bases, including Camp Pendleton (California), Fort Chaffee (Arkansas), Eglin Air Force Base (Florida) and Fort Indiantown Gap (Pennsylvania). After preparations for resettlement, they were assigned to one of nine voluntary agencies (VOLAGs) to help them find financial and personal support from sponsors in the U.S.[9][11]

South Vietnamese refugees were initially resented by Americans, since the memory of defeat was fresh; according to a 1975 poll, only 36 percent of Americans favored Vietnamese immigration. However, the U.S. government informed public opinion as it felt that it had a moral obligation to the refugees, and President Gerald Ford and Congress both agreed to pass the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act in 1975, which allowed Vietnamese refugees to enter the United States under a special status and allocated $405 million in resettlement aid. To prevent the refugees from forming ethnic enclaves and minimize their impact on local communities, they were distributed throughout the country,[9] but within a few years, many resettled in California and Texas.

 
Crewmen of the USS Durham (LKA-114) take Vietnamese refugees from a small craft in 1975.

A second wave of Vietnamese refugees arrived from 1978 to the mid-1980s. Political and economic instability under the new communist government led to a migration unprecedented in Vietnam. South Vietnamese, particularly former military officers and government employees, were sent to "reeducation camps," which were really concentration camps, for intensive political indoctrination. Famine was widespread, and businesses were seized and nationalized. Chinese-Vietnamese relations soured when China became Vietnam's adversary in the brief Sino-Vietnamese War.[9] To escape, many South Vietnamese fled on small, unsafe, crowded fishing boats. Over 70 percent of the first immigrants were from urban areas, but the "boat people" were generally lower socioeconomically, as most were peasant farmers or fishermen, small-town merchants or former military officials. Survivors were picked up by foreign ships and brought to asylum camps in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines from which they entered countries that agreed to accept them.[9][10][11]

The plight of the boat people compelled the US to act, and the Refugee Act of 1980 eased restrictions on the entry of Vietnamese refugees. From 1978 to 1982, 280,500 Vietnamese refugees were admitted[9] In 1979, the Orderly Departure Program (ODP) was established under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to allow emigration from Vietnam to the US and other countries. Additional legislation permitted Amerasian children and former political prisoners and their families to enter the US. Vietnamese immigration peaked in 1992, when many re-education-camp inmates were released and sponsored by their families in the US. Between 1981 and 2000, the country accepted 531,310 Vietnamese political refugees and asylum-seekers.

By the early 1980s, a secondary resettlement was underway. Vietnamese refugees were initially scattered throughout the country in wherever they could find sponsorship. The majority (27,199) settled in California, followed by 9,130 in Texas and 3,500 to 7,000 each in Pennsylvania, Florida, Washington, Illinois, New York, and Louisiana. Economic and social factors, many then moved to warmer states, such as California and Texas, with larger Vietnamese communities, better jobs, and social safety nets.[9][10][11]

Demografi

Tantangan dalam proses integrasi

Gerakan Politik

Sosioekonomi

Budaya

Agama

Tokoh Vietnam-Amerika

Seniman

Aktor dan Aktris

 
Dustin Nguyen
 
Maggie Q

Pembawa berita dan reporter

Sutradara

Grup Tari

Musisi

Artis dan lainnya

Pebisnis

Sastrawan dan wartawan

Berkas:LeXuanNhuan.jpeg
Nhuan Xuan Le

Militer

Hukum dan Politik

 
Jacqueline H. Nguyen
 
Viet D. Dinh
  • Steve Le – Anggota dewan untuk Disktirk F dari Dewan Kota Houston di Texas.
  • Hubert Vo – Anggota dewan perwakilan negara bagian Texas dari partai Demokrat.[42]
  • Janet Nguyen – Senator (dari partai Republik) keturunan Vietnam-Amerika pertama di Amerika Serikat.
  • John Quoc Duong – Direktur Pelaksana Gedung Putih untuk urusan keturunan Asia Amerika dan etnis kepulauan Pasifik dan anggota partai Republik.[43]
  • John Tran – Walikota Rosemead negara bagian California, Walikota pertama keturunan Vietnam-Amerika di Amerika Serikat, dan anggota partai Demokrat.
  • Joseph Cao – Anggota Kongres pertama keturunan Vietnam-Amerika yang mewakili negara bagian Louisiana. Anggota partai Republik.
  • Kok Ksor – Presiden Yayasan Montagnard.[44]
  • Lan Cao – Profesor hukum dan seorang penulis novel.[45]
  • Jacqueline H. Nguyen – Hakim federal pertama keturunan Vietnam-Amerika[46] dan wanita keturunan Asia-Amerika pertama yang menduduki posisi sebagai hakim federal.[47]
  • Madison Nguyen – Anggota Dewan Kota San Jose dan Wakil Walikota San Jose, negara bagian California.
  • Mina Nguyen – Wakil Sekretaris Asisten untuk Urusan Bisnis dan Hubungan Masyarakat di Departemen Keuangan Amerika Serikat.[48]
  • Huu Chanh Nguyen – Pendiri dan mantan Perdana Menteri Pemerintah Vietnam Merdeka.
  • Phuc Buu Chanh Nguyen – Presiden Liga Monarki Konstitusional Vietnam, anggota keluarga Dinasti Nguyen.[49]
  • Stephanie Murphy – Anggota Kongres wanita pertama keturunan Vietnam-Amerika dari perwakilan negara bagian Florida.[50]
  • Tony Lam – Anggota Dewan Kota Westminster negara bagian California.
  • Tri Ta - Walikota Westminster keturunan Vietnam-Amerika pertama.
  • Van Tran – Anggota Majelis negara bagian California.[51]
  • Viet D. Dinh – Mantan Assiten Jaksa Umum Amerika Serikat.[52]
  • Amanda Nguyen — Presiden dan pendiri RISE (organisasi non-pemerintah).
  • Dean Tran – Anggota legislatif pertama keturunan Vietnam-Amerika di negara bagian Massachusetts dan anggota partai Republik.

Ilmu pengetahuan dan pendidikan

 
Eugene H. Trinh
 
Han Dinh

Olahraga

 
Cung Le
 
Leta Lindley

Baseball

Bela diri

Poker
  • Men Nguyen – Pemain poker profesional; sampai tahun 2010, total hadiah yang dia dapatkan dari turnamen poker lebih dari $ 9.700.000.[70]
  • Scotty Nguyen – Pemain poker profesional.[71]
  • David Pham – Pemain poker profesional, memenangkan dua kali kejuaraan dunia poker.[72]
  • J.C. Tran – Pemain poker profesional; sampai tahun 2010, total hadiah yang dia dapatkan dari turnamen poker lebih dari $ 7.996.635.
  • Mimi Tran – Pemain poker profesional; sampai tahun 2010, total hadiah yang dia dapatkan dari turnamen poker lebih dari $1.400.000.[73]

Cabang olahraga lainnya

Tokoh agama

Lihat pula

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