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Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

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Southeast Asian Refugee-Learners: Identities Informing Esl Education And Support, Andrew J. Perlman May 2020

Southeast Asian Refugee-Learners: Identities Informing Esl Education And Support, Andrew J. Perlman

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Serving as a synthesis of previously published studies and digests, this paper focuses on Southeast Asian refugees in America to address the complex interaction between refugee-learners’ ongoing construction of identity and the ESL environment. Drawing on a wealth of historical and contemporary research on one of America’s most prominent refugee populations, this exploration highlights the traits that constitute Southeast Asians as a unique group of learners due to their shared histories of trauma; social, cultural and religious influences; and ongoing sociocultural and linguistic negotiations of identity during resettlement. As a result, ESL programs and practitioners become critical to both language …


Two Poems: Sim Caux Suix; Gux-Taaix's Cornbread, Janit V. Saechao Oct 2019

Two Poems: Sim Caux Suix; Gux-Taaix's Cornbread, Janit V. Saechao

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Two poems detailing the author's respective experiences in growing up as an indigenous Iu Mien and Khmu American child of refugees.