This article shows how, despite differences in their economic integration, the Vietnamese, Cambodians and Loatians now living in the Quebec City area (Canada) have established, over the last ten to fifteen years, three distinct ethnic communities. It also explains how the specific structure of each community is either linked to the presence, among refugees, of relatively well-educated and economically successful individuals or to the activation of core cultural values, such as religion and sustained interpersonal relations. A limited comparison with other Indochinese communities puts into light some particulars and commonalities of the Quebec case.
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