To re-clarify my project, I intend to study Vietnamese immigration in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, from about 1975 to the 1980s. My research focuses specifically on how Vietnamese immigrants assimilated and adjusted to their the new homes in the United States. My research also explores the relationship between the US government and the…
Analyzing the text of certain materials in a manner such as sifting through significant usage of vocabulary, allows researchers to understand the way that writers thought during the time that they produced such material. For example, there was alternating usage of the words resettlement and adjustment in a document about Vietnamese immigrants. The word resettlement…
For the Voyant Tools activity, I uploaded an article called “Occupational Adjustment of Refugees The Vietnamese in the United States” by Barry N. Stein. I did not take the words that were the most used and instead chose words that seemed the most significant, which included refugees, adjustment, and resettlement. Refugees was use steadily throughout…
For the N-Gram Viewer activity, I chose the words immigrants and refugee to analyze. Both words seems to gradually rise in use over the decades. The word immigrant saw the rose steeply during the early 1900s to the mid 1920s before dropping. Based on my own knowledge, I could assume this is relating to the…
Some critical questions relating to my project include: Why were Vietnamese people drawn to the particular areas where they are today? Were they placed in those areas deliberately? What was it about those cities that was ideal for Vietnamese immigrants to proliferate and assimilate?.
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zGEiRrSCa-gU.kCbDih8c0pGM In my map, I marked all of the cities with the heaviest concentration of Vietnamese-born immigrants in the year of 2008. I categorized the cities by the number of immigrants, ones with less than 50,000; ones with 50,000-100,000; and ones with over 100,000. There was an aspect about Vietnamese immigration that I found interesting.…
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zGEiRrSCa-gU.kBoFBiL3fLPc This map that I created marks the cities where I have lived for the entirety of my life growing up in Virginia, and the cities in Virginia where I have gone to the most frequently in my life.
Blog: Reflect on what kinds of data you can productively aggregate and visualize to advance your project. When one does historical research, data is unique in how it could come from both primary and secondary sources. Primary source data could come from individuals who compiled the numbers and statistics during their time. Secondary source data…
Excel Data: Visualization (Many eyes): The data that I compiled discussed the progress of general assimilation, economic assimilation, civic assimilation, and cultural assimilation for Vietnamese immigrants in the United States, and compared those factors with those of Mexican immigrants. The measurements of these factors were based on index ratings, which is essentially a scale of…
For my desired topic, I am studying the accumulation of wealth and education amongst Vietnamese immigrants. I want to find out how Vietnamese immigrants adjusted to the American lifestyle, culture, and economic environments. I am doing this research in order to understand how immigrants of different backgrounds and from different eras behave and proliferate differently…
They manner in which I organized my primary sources on Omeka was based on much of the information that was given to me from the Library of Congress. The information that wasn’t explicitly presented to me, such as the formats and languages of the sources, were made obvious. Since my source was an image of…
Title: Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, together with comments and essays on problems growing out of social conditions Subject: Chicago, immigration, maps, ethnicity Description: The Hull-House Maps and Papers Nationality Maps illustrate the ethnic and racial diversity that existed in the neighborhood just east…
