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Amerasian Homecoming Act  

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  • During the 1960s and early 1970s, American troops supported the government of South Vietnam. After the fall of the South Vietnamese government to North Vietnamese forces in April 1975, refugees from the unified country began arriving in the United States under U.S. government programs. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; Amerasian Homecoming Act of 1988]

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  • 1988

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Amerasian_Homecoming_Act

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