Sources:

1. Http://www.vietnamembassy-usa.org ; This website from the Vietnam embassy in the United States provided my research with helpful background information, yet had a slanted perspective on Vietnam's history. I believe that it is produced by a part of Vietnam's nationalist government, but the site remains helpful in it's basic information.

2. Http://www.fva.org ; This site is published by the Free Vietnam Alliance coalition. It informs the Vietnamese, as well as international community, of news and developments in Vietnam. It also promotes the Vietnamese effort and dream of democracy. The site kept me up to date with daily reports of happenings in Vietnam and proved to be a great source of basic information on Vietnam.

3. Interview: Tri Nguyen; This interview was extremely helpful in making the research become real. Tri shared his experiences, as well as those of his immediate family, on their journey to the Thailand, a country of first asylum, and to the resettlement country of the United States.

4. Interview: Giau Dahn; This interview gave me the basics on what finding work was like in the United States, and the difficulties of overcoming the restrictions of a traditional culture.

5. From Vietnam to America: A Chronicle of the Vietnamese Immigration to the United States; Kelly, Gail Paradise; Boulder, CO; Westview Press, 1977

This book provided information on the immediate Vietnamese cultures that were emerging in the United States and the communities that were being formed in them. Information on what the refugees had to go through in order to get into the countries of resettlement was also included.

6. The Long Journey: Vietnamese Migration and Settlement in Australia; Viviani, Nancy; Melbourne University Press; International Scholarly Book Services, 1984

This book provided information on the Vietnamese experience before, during and after their resettlement in Australia. It includes information on the Australian policies of admittance, as well as many graphs and charts that outline the levels of education, skills, gender and age of those refugees who were admitted into Australia.

7. The First Wave: The Settlement of Australia's First Vietnamese Refugees; Lewins, Frank; George Allen and Urwin; Sydney, Australia, 1985

This book also provided information on the Vietnamese refugees who first arrived in Australia, as well as charts and graphs that gave details on what kind of refugees Australia had chosen and receive.

8. Victims and Survivors: Displaced Persons and Other War Victims in Vietnam; Wiesner, Louis A.; New York; Greenwood Press, 1988

This book gave information on the immediate causes that led up to the flight of the Vietnamese (the Indochinese wars). It also provided insights into the differing reasons for flight, based on class, religion and the different regions in Vietnam.

9. Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam; Templer, Robert; Penguin Books, 1999

This book is extremely well written and insightful into the problems that plague modern day Vietnam. It discusses the roles that the communist government has taken on in trying to control the population in an expanding capitalist environment, as well as the factors that the citizens of Vietnam and the overseas Vietnamese currently deal with.