ABSTRACT
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the world is becoming increasingly global. One of the main characteristics of globalization is immigration (Suárez-Orozco and Qin-Hilliard 2004). Across the world, immigration is near record levels and is not likely to slow down in the decades to come. According to the United Nations, in 2005 about 3 percent of the world population, i.e., about 190 million people, lived outside their countries of origin (UNESCAP 2008). People of Sinic civilizations have a long history of migration to other parts of the world. These immigrants include Chinese immigrants from China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, Korean immigrants from Korea, and Indo-Chinese from Vietnam. Since the late 1970s, over 18 million Chinese have left China—just over half of the approximately 35 million Chinese who live outside of China in what has become known as the Chinese Diaspora. For South Korea, though the country has turned from a sending to a receiving country of international immigrants in the last two decades, still a significant number of Koreans leave their country for educational opportunities. Vietnam witnessed the largest wave of emigrants after the War.
