Invisible, successful, and divided: Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970s

Bösch, Frank; Su, Phi Hong

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/2018/457-5

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“…Although our present sample indeed displays deficient language skills, with over 55% rating their German language skills as “few” or “none,” there was no sustainable effect on their subjective well-being. One reason might be that First Generation Vietnamese migrants in Germany were often found to stay within their communities, rendering a proficiency of German language skills less critical ( 53 ). Another reason might be that due to increased psychological distress, some respondents may not have been able to learn the host language properly, although there was a desire to do so.…”

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Mental Health Determinants Among a Psychiatric Outpatient Sample of Vietnamese Migrants in Germany

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Background: Mental health risk-factors for Asian migrants have been studied almost exclusively in the US, Canada, and Australia but not in European countries. Therefore, we aimed to identify sociodemographic, clinical, and migration-surrounding factors associated with experienced mental distress among Vietnamese migrants in Germany.Method: 305 Vietnamese migrants utilizing Germany's first Vietnamese psychiatric outpatient clinic filled out at admission the Brief-Symptom-Inventory 18 (BSI-18) as well as a questionnaire on 22 potential mental health determinants. Using a multiple linear regression model, we identified those sociodemographic, clinical, and migration-surrounding factors that were significantly related to the Global Severity Index (GSI) of the BSI-18.Results: The factors unemployment (B = −6.32, p = 0.014), financial problems (B = −10.71, p < 0.001), no or only little religious involvement (B = −3.23, p = 0.002), no psychiatric precontact (B = −7.35, p = 0.004), previous migration experiences (B = 8.76, p = 0.002), and perceived discrimination (B = 6.58, p = 0.011) were found to significantly increase the level of mental distress according to the BSI-GSI.Conclusion: Based on these results, we were able to construct a mental health risk-profile for Vietnamese migrants in Germany, which aims to detect candidates for psychiatric problems earlier and supply them with customized prevention and therapy options.

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confidence: 99%