Vietnamese-Canadian University Students in Regina: Socio-Cultural and Educational Adaptation
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ABSTRACT/RESUME A questionnaire survey of the socio-cultural and educational adaptation experiences of Vietnamese-Canadian university students was conducted in a Canadian prairie city. Students' language use, acculturation, academic performance, and school experience were explored. Results indicated that these Vietnamese students were adapting reasonably well to Canadian society. Multiple ordinary least-squares regression analysis demonstrated that the following were significantly related to students' overall adaptation experience: perceived friendliness of Canadians, satisfaction with academic program, academic performance, language proficiency, ethnic self-identity, and sex. Un questionnaire portant sur les experiences d'adaptation educationnelle et socioculturelle d'etudiants universitaires canadiens d'origine vietnamienne a ete distribue dans une ville des prairies canadiennes. Le questionnaire explorait la langue d'usage, le niveau d'assimilation, les performances academiques et l'experience scolaire de ces etudiants. Les resultats indiquent que les etudiants vietnamiens s'adaptaient passablement bien a la societe canadienne. Une analyse quantitative de ces donnees demontre qu'il existe un lien significatif entre leur experience d'adaptation generale et les realites suivantes: leur perception de l'amabilite des Canadiens a leur egard, leur satisfaction concernant leur programme d'etudes, leurs performances academiques, leur niveau de langage, leur identite ethnique et leur sexe. INTRODUCTION The size of the Vietnamese-Canadian ethnic group has been growing as a result of the exodus of Vietnamese nationals from Indochina following the collapse of the Saigon regime in 1975. The 1996 Census enumerated a total of 136,810 Vietnamese in Canada (Statistics Canada 1996). According to the 2001 Census, that number increased to 151,415 over the five year span, as shown in figure 1. Vietnamese Canadians were highly concentrated in the following census metropolitan areas: Toronto (45,105), Montreal (25,610), Vancouver (22,865), Calgary (11,595), Edmonton (8,990), Ottawa/Gatineau (6,650), Ottawa/Hull of Ontario (6,090), Winnipeg (3,495), Hamilton (3,405), and Kitchener (3,315). Only 915 individuals of Vietnamese origin resided in Regina (Statistics Canada 2003). Previous studies of Vietnamese immigrant communities in Canada focus on socioeconomic adaptation among adults (Chan and Dorais 1998; Lam 1996; Montgomery 1986, 1991; Valtonen 1999) and on post-migration stress (Allen and Hiller 1985; Taylor 1991). The few studies involving younger Vietnamese immigrants explore acculturation attitudes (Kwak and Berry 2001), stress (Fry 1985; Hymna et al. 2000), and discriminatory experiences in schools (Phan 2003). Using Chow's (1997) multivariate model of immigrant student adaptation, (1) this study attempts to fill a gap in the literature, namely the adaptation (2) of younger Vietnamese immigrants, by examining the sociocultural (i.e., language use, acculturation, and ethnic self-identification) and educational (i.e., school experience and academic performance) adaptation of Vietnamese-Canadian university students in Regina. Their overall adaptation experience will also be explored. METHODOLOGY Sample Using snowball sampling, 50 students of Vietnamese descent (3) at the University of Regina participated in this survey during the academic year 1999-2000 (Chow 2005). The sample consisted of 28 males and 22 females, with a mean age of 24 years (SD= 5.9). An overwhelming majority (n=44, 88.0%) were born in Vietnam. About three-fifths (n = 29, 58.0%) were admitted to Canada as sponsored, family-class immigrants, and two-fifths (n= 19, 38.0%) came as refugee claimants. The students' length of residence in Canada ranged from 4 to 20 years (M = 13.57, SD = 4.47). Nearly all respondents (n = 49, 98.0%) were Canadian citizens at the time of the survey. With respect to socio-economic status, a majority reported a total family income within the range of $30,001 to $40,000 (n=31, 63. …
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