Cambodians in France

ethnic group
group=Cambodians in France


poptime=19,937 Cambodian only
35,850 naturalised French (1999 est) [ [OECD http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/23/34792376.xls] ]
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langs=French, Khmer
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Cambodians in France consist largely of ethnic Khmer refugees who fled there during the Second Indochina War, though some Cambodians came to France while Cambodia was a French protectorate from 1863–1953.Fact|date=January 2008 Further chain migration occurred in the 1990s, as the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia came to an end and the country reopened its borders; people who had remained in Cambodia rejoined their family members who had previously emigrated. Buddhism plays an important role in the community and is seen as a marker of ethnic identity; in contrast, the ability to speak the Khmer language is less emphasised. Though immigrant parents set up language schools for their children soon after migration, many children discontinued their language studies due to the difficulty of learning Khmer grammar and the Sanskrit-based Khmer alphabet. Cambodians in France on average are older, more educated, and have higher incomes than Cambodian Americans. [cite journal|title=Drinking during pregnancy: Practices of Cambodian refugees in France and the United States|last=D'Avanzo|first=Carolyn E.|coauthors=Sasha A. Barab|journal=Health Care For Women International|volume=21|issue=4|publisher=Routledge|pages=319–334(16)|month=June | year=2000|issn=1096-4665|doi=10.1080/073993300245177]

Numerically, the Khmer are the dominant group among Cambodians in France, but Cambodians of Chinese descent can also be found among the population; though interethnic marriages between Chinese and Khmers were common in Cambodia and remain so in France, the Chinese they have tended to organise themselves around dialect groups and remain somewhat separate from other Cambodians in France. [cite book|last=Christiansen|first=Flemming|chapter=Southeast Asia to France|title=Chinatown, Europe: An Exploration of Overseas Chinese Identity in the 1990s|publisher=Routledge|pages=56-59|year=2003|id=ISBN 0700710728] A small number of Cambodians in France consist of the wives and mixed-race children of French colonisers who repatriated to France between 1955 and 1965; regardless of their ethnicity, many of those used Khmer rather than French as their home language.cite conference|title=Assimilation and ethnic diversity in France|editor=D. Juteau, Ch. Hartzig|booktitle=The Social Construction of Diversity: Recasting the Social Narrative of Industrial Nations|location=NewYork/Oxford|piblisher=Berghan Books|pages=15-39|last=Simon-Barouh|first=Ida|year=2003|id=ISBN 1571813756]

ee also

*Koreans in France

References

Further reading

*cite journal|first=Stéphanie|last=Nann|title=Les Cambodgiens en France, entre l'image et la réalité|journal=Migrations Société|date=January/February 2007|volume=19|issue=109|language=French
*cite journal|first=Ida|last=Simon-Barouh|title=Les Cambodgiens en France: une identité retrouvée et transformée|journal=Migrants-Formation|year=1989|issue=76|language=French
*cite journal|year=2002|title=Bouddhisme et ethnicité cambodgienne en France: l'exemple de Rennes|journal=Les Cahiers du Ceriem|volume=10|pages=19–36|last=Simon-Barouh|first=Ida|language=French
*cite journal|year=2003|title=Les réfugiés du Cambodge en France. Eléments d’une diaspora cambodgienne?|journal=Les Cahiers du Ceriem|volume=11|pages=15–39|last=Simon-Barouh|first=Ida|language=French
*cite conference|year=2003|title=Pourquoi apprendre? Une approche à travers l'exemple des Cambodgiens réfugiés en France|editor=A. Hiroko|booktitle=Actes du colloque Pourquoi apprendre et comment?|location=Rennes|publisher=Presses de l'Université de Rennes|last=Simon-Barouh|first=Ida|language=French