23 Facts About Overseas Vietnamese

Overseas Vietnamese refers to Vietnamese people who live outside Vietnam.

The oldest wave of overseas Vietnamese left Vietnam as economic and political refugees after the 1975 fall of Saigon and the North Vietnamese annexation of South Vietnam.

Overseas Vietnamese make up the fifth largest Asian diaspora, after the Indian diaspora, Overseas Chinese, Overseas Filipinos and the Lebanese diaspora.

Term Viet Kieu ?? is used by people in Vietnam to refer to Overseas Vietnamese living outside the country and is not a term of self-identification.

South Vietnamese coming to the U S in the second wave did not come willingly.

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Those who fled to escape the North Overseas Vietnamese takeover are generally antagonistic toward the communist government of Vietnam.

Overseas Vietnamese people began migrating to Cambodia as early as the 17th century.

In 1863, when Cambodia became a French colony, many Overseas Vietnamese were brought to Cambodia by the French to work on plantations and occupy civil servant positions.

Many former South Overseas Vietnamese soldiers came to Cambodia, fleeing persecution from the communist government.

France was the first Western country where Overseas Vietnamese migrants settled due to the colonization of Vietnam by France that began in the late 1850s.

The largest influx of Overseas Vietnamese people arrived in France as refugees after the Fall of Saigon and end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

The generation of Overseas Vietnamese refugees continues to hold on to traditional values.

Australian-born Overseas Vietnamese tend to earn high levels of educational attainment and success.

In Western Germany, most Overseas Vietnamese arrived in the 1970s or 1980s as refugees from the Vietnam War.

The Essex lorry deaths highlighted the issue of illegal Overseas Vietnamese immigrants being smuggled from poverty-stricken regions of Vietnam to other parts of the world.

The Overseas Vietnamese are considered among the best integrated non-Western immigrant groups in Norway, with high rates of Norwegian citizenship among immigrants and success rates in education on par with those of ethnic Norwegians.

Under the Hong Kong government's Comprehensive Plan of Action, newly arriving Overseas Vietnamese were classified as either political refugees or economic migrants.

Generally, overseas Vietnamese residing in North America, Western Europe, and Australia are virulently opposed to the existing government of Vietnam.

The smaller population of overseas Vietnamese residing in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, most of whom have been sent for training in formerly communist countries, generally maintain positive or more neutral, if not very friendly relations with the government.

Many of these East European Overseas Vietnamese are from Northern Vietnam and usually have personal or familial affiliations with the communist regime Those who left before the political exodus of 1975, largely residing in France, generally identify their sentiments as somewhere in between the two polarities.

Government enacted laws to make it easier for overseas Vietnamese to do business in Vietnam, including laws allowing them to own land.

The first company in Vietnam to be registered to an Overseas Vietnamese was Highlands Coffee, a successful chain of specialty coffee shops, in 1998.

Flag allegiances were further soured and the generational divide was further exacerbated when the former South Overseas Vietnamese flag appeared during the 2021 United States Capitol attack.