The Vietnamese in Sydney

Ashley Carruthers

doi:10.5130/sj.v1i3.942

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/sj.v1i3.942

Keywords:

Vietnamese, Vietnam, Vietnam War, immigration, local history, Australian history,

Ashley Carruthers

Australian National University

Abstract

Australians of Vietnamese origin form one of the largest and most visible migrant communities in Sydney. Vietnamese is the fifth most commonly spoken community language in Sydney other than English, and ranks above Italian. Arriving as refugees and family reunion migrants in the wake of the fall of Saigon to advancing communist forces in 1975, the Vietnamese were the first large group of Asian immigrants to settle in Australia after the end of the White Australia policy, and the first significant group to arrive after the advent of official multiculturalism.

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Vol. 1 No. 3 (2008)

Section

Sydney's People

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Author Biography

Ashley Carruthers, Australian National University

Emma is the full time Editorial Coordinator for the Dictionary of Sydney. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from University of Technology, Sydney. She was senior researcher and an editor of Australian Feminism A Companion (OUP, 1998), and has extensive experience in print and online editing and writing.

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Ashley Carruthers, Australian National University